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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 12:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

How did I know Ezblast was going to show up. LOL. Good show.
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Henry_the_8th


Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 02:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Definitely not cheap, but worth taking a look at.
http://www.vd-classic.com/EN/realisation.php#
They've built a couple of Buell cafe racers.
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Bill00


Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 01:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You forgot this one EZ.
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Steve_mackay


Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 02:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That crossroads cafe bike is gorgeous!
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Ezblast


Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 03:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Its a Cafe dragster - no good in the corners - lol - of course if you raised the height, upgraded the suspension a bit - then you'd probably have something that equates to fun again - as it sits its good for straight lines - lol - pretty bike though!
GT - JBOTDS! EZ
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Wardog3187
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 12:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Check out www.hackasaw.com for cafe racers and other interesting bikes. This guy knows his stuff hands down.
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Bomber


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 11:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

SR500 -- nicely cafed, bored out, Mikuni, alloy tank, 1/4 fairing, lots of things left to do, although perfectly ridable -- 80% of another as a parts department -- on the block -- lemme know if you're intersted
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Fly


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 01:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Bomber, if you sold the SR's you wouldn't have reason to go out into the cold garage this winter? What's wrong with you, man? :-)
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Whitetrashxb
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 04:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

of course i've seen several pics, and i guess i have a general idea, but can someone please exactly define what a 'cafe racer' is, and isn't?

thanks,

james
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Dino


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 04:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Take a look at the Norton in Ray's post. Low bars, rear-sets, exhaust mods, single seat. The term came to define mods made to street bikes by English "Rockers" a few decades back. Modded bikes were ridden at high speed (d'oh) from cafe to cafe, hence "cafe racer". The cafes were what we might call diners that were located along the motorways. Popular cafes became legend. We have now exceeded the limits of my paltry knowledge on the subject. Anyone else care to expand/correct?
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Newblaster


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 05:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's pretty much the basics of the movement. If you want in-depth (and some nice pics of cafe racers...), here's a link.
http://www.ace-cafe-london.com/f2_2.htm
Enjoy...
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Whitetrashxb
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 05:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ahhhhhhh...

excellent, thank you gentlemen, that is an extremely cool sight, w/ some great pics....

i love the fact that our Buells are modern versions of this awesome style..
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Dino


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 05:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Oh, and "doing the ton" (exceeding 100 mph) on your cafe racer was quite the thing.
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Rek


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 06:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ton-eighty anyone? (not me!) just asking.
Great site, BTW. Love the pic of Blakes M2.

Rob
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Cataract2
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 09:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sorry for my ignorance on this, but what was so good about the cafe racer? I'm not a big fan of the jap ones but the euro ones are nice... What's the draw to these bikes for some? Would the XB's be a type of cafe racer?
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Firemanjim


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 09:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ton-eighty?Real close---177+.Next year for sure.
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Timbo


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Two tons and change...

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Dino


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 10:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

YeeeeHaw!!!
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Ray_maines


Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 11:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Cataract2: I've always thought it was more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow.

I think that's one of the attractions of a 60's/70's era Cafe Racer. You can ride the thing flat out and not be in any real danger of killing yourself. "Fast" happens at WAY less than a "Ton-eighty." Geez, a guy could hurt himself falling off at 180mph but 110 seems so much more civilized. I suppose there's a testosterone difference between the two of us, but I think if most of us were honest we'd admit that our balls aren't as big as we would like others to believe anyway.
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Firemanjim


Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 07:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm gonna be right on yer heels,Timbo---
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Timbo


Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 08:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Cool!!!

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Cataract2
Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 10:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So would the XB series be considered a kind of cafe raver?
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Rek


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 07:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So would the XB series be considered a kind of cafe raver?


If we're talking naked bikes (XB)then cafe beserker would be more accurate.
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Bomber


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 10:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

thought I posted this yesterday -- will try again -- the little dear will do a buck five, if your patient

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Ezblast


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 11:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've always considered the modern streetfighter to be the sucessor of the old style cafe bikes - I happen to like both styles though and think they are complementary to each other.
GT - JBOTDS! EZ

(Message edited by ezblast on December 22, 2004)
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Bomber


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 01:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

great analogy, EZ -- I'm with ya!
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Mikej


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 04:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Would this qualify as a cafe style:
http://www.nightrider.com/v2cafe/images/adelaidecafe.jpg

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Tom_b


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 06:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

MikeJ, yes it does. And does it very well too! EZblast. I agree with your comparison. Cafe racers are the old school street fighters
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Rek


Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 06:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

MikeJ: is that yours? nice scoot!

Rob
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Mikej


Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 08:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Nope, not mine, just along the lines of something I've been thinking of for awhile. Found it in a random background google image search.
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