Cafe Racers

[ducatipaso]

i think the concepts are bitchin
i miss my RD400... 2-stroke street bikes are cool

[RobE30]

Those ^^^^ look pretty cool. They don't look all that comfortable to ride for long, but it looks like you'd be riding Terminator.

My parents told me as a kid that I wasn't allowed to ride on my friends trail bikes or scooters. I didn't always listen to them, but there was no way they'd be cool with me buying one.

About the second week after I went away to college, I noticed a bike that was for sale after I'd walked by it a couple times. It didn't run, but I ended up buying it for $350 and pushing it back to the dorms. The tank was black primer, but it was one of these (see below). A Suzuki GT380. They're 3-cylinder, air-cooled two-stroke bikes. I fixed it and learned to ride it and had a great time. It was before helmet laws and it was a ton of fun (when it wasn't fouling plugs).

I had an old Kawasaki like^^ 650 2-stroke 3 cyl. Hauled ass for about 10 min then I had to clean the plugs and points.... It was a really fun 10 min tho! My mom was the same way (I got the Kawi for free and pushed it 8 miles home) She eventually got over it

[newman]

not really a cafe, but here's my 74 honda.

[ducatipaso]

hey that's a CB550-four? sweet bikes those are.

[learningcurve86]

Drove my first bike the other day.. a '96 Kawasaki Eliminator [600cc]. I have now gone from "oh man, i bet those are fun" to thinking "how can i live without this?" -Pretty awesome experience.

[bikerbill2021]

bump this back up, been thinking about getting a cafe racer project going for a while, and an opportunity may have opened up for me to commence such an ordeal :)

[Purdue89E30]

I don't know a whole lot about bikes but saw this site and thought the bikes looked pretty sick.

http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/index.html

They're located in Denmark and rebuild old bikes to their taste, nice stuff!

[RobE30]

^WOAH! It's like a cross btwn a bobber and a cafe racer.... Dig it!

[DEV0 E30]

Wrench Monkey's bikes are amazing. My fav:

http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/monkee08.html

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I need this:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/san-francisco-morning-rich-beer.html

[structured]

This thread has not lived up to its potential.









These aren't cafes per se, but they are still awesome,

[ortholithiation]

I had a 75 honda cb. I loved this bike soo much that I almost teared up when I sold it.

Looking for another as soon as the bmw leaves the garage.

The style and simplicity of these bike are what make them so great. I would love to tour from Montreal to S. America on a CB 750. Be warned parts and prices have gone up!

[b*saint]

Eh not really into the cafe's. Someone mentioned they'd love to get a bike but not a crotch rocket cuz they would die on it. Ok so have you ever ridden a cafe bike? A crotch rocket is made to accelerate, grip, and BRAKE with tremendous force on all those three catagories. My bike has dual six piston calipers on floating 320mm disc. For a 420 pound machine.

[DerRoteBaron]

Heres some pics of a few cafe bikes I drool over.

[yberther]

Wrench Monkey's bikes are amazing. My fav:

http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/monkee08.html

dude those bikes are awesome. holy shit.

[Stephen]

Sweet jesus. I think i need one