Motomiu Katanga Uno


By the end of 2014, a Mumbai based custom bike builder Motomiu, took the Street 750 and transformed it into a beautiful cafe racer. Named as the Motomiu Katanga Uno, where Katanga is the subspecies name for the lions from Africa and Uno meaning “one” in Spanish. This Customised Street 750 is their first creation and it’s created with a belief of the same Katanga (lion) spirit.



Looking to the body, the tank remains the same while it gets a dual tone black and green paint job and the Harley badge has been replaced by Motomiu’s logo. The dual yet small seat from the regular Street 750 has been replaced by a single comfortable seat and an aerodynamic cowl which goes towards the tail lamp. The tail lamp and the indicators on the Katanga Uno are LED units which can be found as stock on the KTM RC/Duke 200/390 and Pulsar RS 200. The engine crank-case cover and the air filter box get a unique number one badge, gelling with the bike’s name Katanga Uno. The exhaust pipes from the V-Twin engine get a silver heat wrap and towards the end, there’s a single freeflow canister, custom made by Motomiu themselves. The footpegs on this motorcycle are all-aluminium rearsets, again gaining quite some attention. At the rear, the normal rubber brake lines are replaced by steel braided lines and the average MRF rubber has been replaced by a 170 section higher profile rubber, all the bits making the Katanga Uno look beefy.

The Katanga Uno is a cafe racer and cafe racers most of the time have a far and aggressive seating posture. The bike is low, yet very much wide and over to that the handlebars are far from the seat and yet they are lowered. All these bits make the rider leaned onto the tank. The handle is a bit shorter in height but there was no issue during standstill although after riding, the too far clip-ons, wide rearsets and the single seat made riding this bike a bit uncomfortable. The seat happened to be really cushiony and just because of the seat, you won't get much tired.


The motorcycle has the same heart within as of the regular Harley-Davidson Street 750. A good revving 749 cc engine that puts out 58 BHP of power and 60 Nm of torque is pretty much sufficient for the Katanga Uno as it weighs lighter than the regular Street 750. The lesser weight and better tyres enables the Katanga to get into motion real quick and the bike hits the ton in no time (6.34 seconds based VBOX tests). The bike feels like it can go for the second ton but it doesn’t actually happen.

The Katanga Uno gets a freeflow exhaust and the sound is insanely loud, grabbing quite some attention. The NVH levels happened to be harsh but only at higher revs. The rearsets on the bike did give a cafe racer riding position but because of the same, we found gear shifts to be very much notchy. All of the aluminium bits make the Katanga Uno lose 20 kgs from the original Harley-Davidson Street 750 and the bike does feel a bit lighter.


The Motomiu Katanga Uno doesn’t ride or handle as well as the hardware improvements suggest and is thus a bike for Harley-Davidson enthusiasts only, who are crazy about how the motorcycle looks and the attention it seeks.