shit cafe racers

[faffergotgunz]

Anyone else into this stuff: https://d3qom94u9bnnf1.cloudfront.net/content/list/ExDxnzMtSm26MpPSeg6K_Yamaha+Virago+Eric+EatSleepRIDE.jpg ?

My facebook feed is full of people converting their old bikes to these at the minute.

Dont understand it so I am getting angry and frustrated about it. At least pick a fecking faster engine! Doesnt look like its going to have much 'racer' in it to me.
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[Skudd]

It is a style.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

I agree they look fucking hideous. Especially the amateur ones.

[Wonko The Sane]

Doesn't look like a cafe racer to me, the back end is all wrong.

Got to bear in mind that the original cafe racers were often the owner's daily transport so still had to be practical.
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[stevo as b4]

It's keeping more old bikes on the road and off the scrap heap. It's as others said about the look/style, and it's also keeping old non desirable bikes priced high, as well as alot of specialists and custom fabricators and engineering and trick parts suppliers for old bikes in business.

While the bikes are overpriced and overstyled to the point of not being capable or comfy to ride, it's getting more people messing with bikes in sheds and spending money on unloved old machinery.

[Polarbear]

Don't bikes need mudguards anymore?
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[binge]

This is the sort of slander I would expect to see in the car world. When in fact, car guys tend to admire other people's builds regardless of whether it's their style or not.


I personally love the cafe racers, especially the ones made from CG125's etc.
It warms my heart a little bit when you see a teenager on L-plates, proper into their old-school and retro stuff.


I dread to think what you would say about the builds I do. haha!

[Rogerborg]

[Andy_Pagin]

I suppose nowadays we should call them 'McDonalds Racers' or 'The back of Sainsburys Car Park' racers. At least that's all the witless teenage cagers around my way seem to do with their Noddy cars.
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This was up for £3k. £3k

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Cg125-Cafe-Racer-Custom-/151985596929?hash=item23630c2a01:g:R9wAAOSwoydWs33n

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzIwWDk2MA==/z/R9wAAOSwoydWs33n/$_57.JPG
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[Silver_Fox]

I ar classic
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[chris-red]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-cg125/141926210441?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107083358%26meid%3D921e00340f4f4733af82b4800fe6a700%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D151985596929


Is that petrol tank on backwards?
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[DrSnoosnoo]

[stinkwheel]

I'm considering stockpiling airboxes and mudguards for when they all get bored with them.
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[.Chris.]

It's definitely an unwelcome trend. A lot of classic bikes are being mutilated in this way. It's not so bad when all it involves is pod filters, clip-ons and removing the mudguards, but often the first thing to happen is that the frame is chopped, straight away taking the bike past the point of no return. This has meant that some old bikes that were hitherto cheap and easy to get hold of aren't anymore. Most of the amateur-built ones are dreadful, anyway.

As far as new bikes are concerned, though, I'm on the opposite side of the fence. Anything that gets more new bikes sold, and more people riding them, is a good thing. Just as long as they keep their hands off our cheap oldies .
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[Ribenapigeon]

Im more interested in customising for practical purposes rather than just to achieve a certain look. I do think a lot of these custom cafe bikes do look good when done well and they look better than your popped out of the factory mould harley type cruisers. I really liked the look of that bike Lotus brought out but i thnk im the only person who did.

If I had a garage I would like to build something for my work. So supermoto for speed and flickability round the cities estates and roundabouts, A comfortable seat for all day riding, some storage but not of the size conventional boxes are, accesory gubbins for keeping phones and laptops charged maybe even a built in computer for my notes emails etc or somesuch, oh and a tea maker for the winter. You rarely see that kind of customising.

[Rogerborg]

I must admit to having dabbled. No classics were harmed. A cheap Chinese 125, small lights all round, and flat bars - actually just a piece of aluminium tube stock.

Frame intact, airbox intact, perfectly ridable and all undo-able. The exhaust wrap is a bit American Throbber, but it's hiding the ropey welds from removing the cats in the exhausts.

https://i47.tinypic.com/28asu2d.jpg

Laughs were had, forks did not twist due to lack of bracing, nobody got hurt. Just good old skool fashioned summer larks. Jumpers for goalposts, lashings of ginger beer, would lark again.
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[faffergotgunz]

[sickpup]

[stevo as b4]

The only thing apart from the price for old dull classics that I dislike really about these café racer builds, is when someone calls their bike a café racer when it does not have clip on bars mounted under the top yoke.

That's my definition and judgement of a café racer, and some stupid fools thing you can have flat bars or higher on a café racer. They even sometimes say they don't want clip ons as they don't want an uncomfortable bike to ride.

Well if that's the case they don't want a fucking café racer.
Maybe a flat tracker, custom naked or bobber, but no clip on's= no café racer in my book.

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[stevo as b4]

Yeah but I just don't like them, the same with those adjustable jota bars. It's either clip on's or not a real café racer in my book.

You wouldn't combine a single humped seat with MX bars or similar unless the builder was suffering severe mental illness?

[sickpup]