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Title: cafe racer pics
Post by: hondamichael on March 25, 2007, 12:38:47 AM
nice site loads of pics and some realy nice thumpers on it
http://www.caferace.com/entry.html
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: guest27 on March 25, 2007, 11:19:01 AM
Mr Pendant here...

That first one is real pretty - but is more a street scrambler than a cafe racer...  Lovely pics, what is it about airhead BMWs that look so right as Cafe Racers - when they should look a complete mess.

Love the Honda single in the 'bed frame, reminds me (was going to use another word but cannot spell it!  he he) of a wonderful Benelli 4 that I saw on the IoM - had the Old buggers waxing about it and some saying how bad it was that it was being used on the road - was actually a Honda 4 (500?  550?  750?) in a widline frame - but was real sexy.

At the Margam park hill climbs there was a guy running a Honda 350/4 classic race bike - well actually it was a modern CBR350 lump in a bespoke frame - looked the biz and ruptured eardrums in Minehead

R
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: guest27 on March 25, 2007, 11:22:21 AM
Oh and follow the links to the Youth Of Britian music - including the kitten on a bike.....

Brill

R
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: guest7 on March 26, 2007, 08:35:23 PM
Quote from: Rog on March 25, 2007, 11:19:01 AM
Love the Honda single in the 'bed frame,

I spoke to this guy once, he told me that the frame is an ex-Owen Greenwood manx chassis that he had to cut four inches out of to make the XBR sit right! He's an engineer so the work looks good, but how many people would attack a manx frame with provenance with an angle grinder?

GC
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: guest7 on March 26, 2007, 08:42:56 PM
This Beemer is, imho, the finest café racer ever built:

(http://www.caferace.com/badboxer.jpg)

There''s a great site devoted to it which you will find if you search for 'team incomplete'.

Cheers
GC
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: squirrelciv on March 27, 2007, 06:09:24 PM
Quote from: onepot on March 26, 2007, 08:42:56 PM
This Beemer is, imho, the finest café racer ever built:

(http://www.caferace.com/badboxer.jpg)

There''s a great site devoted to it which you will find if you search for 'team incomplete'.

Cheers
GC

Seen that site, very impressive I must agree :-)
Title: Re: cafe racer pics
Post by: guest27 on March 27, 2007, 07:42:46 PM
Mmmm lovely looking bike

Now - I have not heard about using bath sealant on spoked wheels so you can use tubeless tires - has anyone? - Does it work, can it be done on any rim or do they have to have the right profile lip?

R