I love Ducati ! And the cafe racer one white and red and green stripes ! On my personnel taste I would instal a swing arm more old school with re enforce bar on the top ! But it s my personnal taste...you made a good job...nice shoop ! Thank you for sharing.
Right, note for all you Yanks. The Café racer is a bike built by the British youth biker fashion known as "The Rockers" in the 1960's. You took a standard British bike and put "Race" parts on it, like low clip on bars, alloy racing tank, rear set foot controls, better flowing exhaust and maybe a "bum pad" racing seat. Maybe you fettled the motor as well. The ultimate Rocker bikes were BSA Gold stars ( in Clubman trim) Rocket Gold stars, Norton 650SS, Triumph Bonnievilles and the ultimate Café racer, the TRITON, a Bonnieville engine in a Norton "Featherbed" frame, the best using frames from Manx Norton race bikes. This was possible because of a lightweight car racing class using Manx Norton engines, leaving lots of Manx frames with no motors for sale. Rockers rode everywhere fast. The main thing was to get your bike on the M1 motorway (freeway) and break "The Ton", 100 miles per hour. Then you were a star. Rockers hung out in Greasy spoon restaurants, and transport cafés (truck stops) drinking coffee. Now working class Brits didn't know how to pronounce the French word "Café", and called them "Caffs". In fact, a greasy spoon café is still called a "Caff" where a proper café will be called a café. So, a Café Racer is NOT a "Café racer", it's a CAFF RACER! Please get this right, otherwise you sound like a complete tit.
JRValor well, the classification has become so obscure with a lot of features from other styling exercises carried over to different builds. Imo the one they showed here could still be classified as a cafe if the only deviating factor it has is the handlebar
The First Café Racers were Norton Triumph Royal-Enfield and BSA but because of price reasons Japanese Bikes were used later as Well. So Café Racers never were Limited to brittish Steel.
my brother has this style bike with a Yamaha
he built his this 5 years ago.
they are super cool
I love Ducati ! And the cafe racer one white and red and green stripes ! On my personnel taste I would instal a swing arm more old school with re enforce bar on the top !
But it s my personnal taste...you made a good job...nice shoop ! Thank you for sharing.
Right, note for all you Yanks. The Café racer is a bike built by the British youth biker fashion known as "The Rockers" in the 1960's. You took a standard British bike and put "Race" parts on it, like low clip on bars, alloy racing tank, rear set foot controls, better flowing exhaust and maybe a "bum pad" racing seat. Maybe you fettled the motor as well. The ultimate Rocker bikes were BSA Gold stars ( in Clubman trim) Rocket Gold stars, Norton 650SS, Triumph Bonnievilles and the ultimate Café racer, the TRITON, a Bonnieville engine in a Norton "Featherbed" frame, the best using frames from Manx Norton race bikes. This was possible because of a lightweight car racing class using Manx Norton engines, leaving lots of Manx frames with no motors for sale.
Rockers rode everywhere fast. The main thing was to get your bike on the M1 motorway (freeway) and break "The Ton", 100 miles per hour. Then you were a star.
Rockers hung out in Greasy spoon restaurants, and transport cafés (truck stops) drinking coffee. Now working class Brits didn't know how to pronounce the French word "Café", and called them "Caffs". In fact, a greasy spoon café is still called a "Caff" where a proper café will be called a café.
So, a Café Racer is NOT a "Café racer", it's a
CAFF RACER!
Please get this right, otherwise you sound like a complete tit.
I'm diggin it
I just saw the essence of motorcycles
lol he says "Air Cooled" and the next image shows a radiator
Love a Doocartee
Ze Germanz due cat eee
Nice how they talk about cafe racers but they show a tracker
+JRValor Everything is a cafe racer. Take any bike, chop a few bits, apply a checkered sticker - cafe racer done.
computername he is refering to the style of bike which is called tracker
JRValor well, the classification has become so obscure with a lot of features from other styling exercises carried over to different builds. Imo the one they showed here could still be classified as a cafe if the only deviating factor it has is the handlebar
A true cafe racer is based on a British twin, a Norton, or a Triumph or a BSA. A Ducati does not maketh a cafe racer
Patrick Archibald "cafe racer" has become a styling exercise. Deal with it. How else would we classify these builds?
The First Café Racers were Norton Triumph Royal-Enfield and BSA but because of price reasons Japanese Bikes were used later as Well. So Café Racers never were Limited to brittish Steel.
Carlos Leon the bike he built is basically a monster copy using an ss900 frame no creativity at all
$50k and up for one of his bikes. A bit much if you ask me. I personally don't see the value.
+Joe Tavarez You want value, build your own bike. Incapable of doing that - scooters are good "value" for the money.
enemy4 2day yup. I agree. Not worth 50k.
Check out @rootbeerbobber on IG. His cafe racers are gorgeous!
Hands down, worst voice-over narration EVER