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Gentleman_jon
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 03:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

On the odd chance that your subscription to Cafe Racer magazine has expired, you may have missed this rather amusing little article in the current issue of a great little magazine.

They cover the Cafe Racer scene of the sixties and seventies, the great British cafe racer specials, Norvins, Triton's and that kind of thing.

That period was really the birth of the sport bike scene as we know it today.

Gentleman Jon was there.


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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 04:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There were the Harleys but the Harley scene was unbelievably crude. Just ghastly machines. Still are in my opinion

Good one
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Etennuly
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 04:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Good on you Jon! That is exceptionally cool!
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Americanmadexb
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 04:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Jon went all third person on us!! LOL
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Firstbuell
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 03:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I love the level of cafe racer kit on his BMW

the HOT ticket for the Teutonic Ton-Up Boys.....
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 03:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's very cool ! . . . I'm not sure. . but I think I am having more fun the older I get.

Neat article.
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Buellerthanyou
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 04:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Congrats Jon, that's really cool! I just became aware of this magazine last month and was considering a subscription for myself. I think a cafe' racer revival is going to be "the next big thing" now that the chopper fad is soooooooooooo over. I hope I'm still burning up the backroads in my 7th decade.
HellBuelly J
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Froggy
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 05:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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Bcordb3
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 09:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I just the complete article in Cafe Racer. Great article. I knew some the Boston Honda crowd and the RISD folks and spent a lot of time at Bridgehampton and a few other tracks in the Northeast fun times. I remember the the Harley guys at Laconia, one year in the rain. A Harley one the National, I don't remember who it was but he was a Ken Marley shoe. The supporting Junior race was won by another Harley wearing at hot shoe in the rain, they I do remember his name, he a local hot shoe flat Tracker from Rhode Island, Louis Moniz, I think Gordon Razee did well also. Most of they guys here wouldn't remember that era. It was fun time, taking the ferry Conn. to Long Island and miss the last boat to New London on Sunday and having to drive back to City to back to Rhode Island. I regress.
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Nevrenuf
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 10:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

very cool jon.





and this is the one that drew me to buell. saw it in a poster at the nato base in naples italy. long live the cafe racer.

(Message edited by nevrenuf on February 02, 2010)
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Tom_b
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 11:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

cool!!! Hope i can say something as impressive about my years of riding when i'm in my 70's.
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U4euh
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 09:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Don't have my hardrive with me but I've got a picture of you Jon down in Suchas sitting almost exactly like the above picture! Very cool
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Gohot
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 10:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Neat little Duke.... I had one waay back... in a Rickman frame, still was a pile.
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