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Bhud
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PostPosted: 21:02 - 30 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Our cafe racers here in this thread are starting to look more and more dejected. Gone, are the retro chocolate tin lids. In, are the exhaust wraps of woe. This one even has a cracked yellow headlight. Perhaps this is a sign the trend is coming to an end (or is just moving over to electric bikes).

"When going the bike is very striking and people always want to stop and admire or ask about it."

I wonder what they say.

Some guesses:

- Going through a rough patch mate? Don't worry - things will start looking up soon.
- Are you looking for the recycling centre? Turn around and take the third exit.
- Are you enjoying your day release so far?
- Did you get their number plate? Which way did they go?

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PostPosted: 22:21 - 30 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brava210 wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB250N-Super-Dream-Custom-Cafe-Racer-read-description/373517430469?hash=item56f75faec5:g:AUUAAOSwBipgTlF~

BID BID BID NOW


Oh the horror!
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Invacar blue with ‘74 BL allegro brown trim, what’s not to like?

“When going the bike is very striking and people always want to stop and admire or ask about it”

I’m guessing usually “what the heck is that!?”
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PostPosted: 17:06 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keithy wrote:
Invacar blue with ‘74 BL allegro brown trim, what’s not to like?


Laughing
I knew it reminded me of something
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PostPosted: 18:02 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brava210 wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB250N-Super-Dream-Custom-Cafe-Racer-read-description/373517430469?hash=item56f75faec5:g:AUUAAOSwBipgTlF~

BID BID BID NOW


The 10 bids on it so far are surely fakes Shocked
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PostPosted: 19:48 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
wow! that thing will go like shit off a blanket
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PostPosted: 20:12 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Apparently:

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goes well with all the weight removed and carves corners nicely.


It reeks of failure and disappointment, and I'm strangely fascinated with it. I'm not altogether unsympathetic. Having the ability to conceive of something in the realm of the possible, yet lacking the mental faculties to realise it, is a distressing and tragic facet of the human condition. I'm sure we've all experienced it to some degree. For example, take a famous work of art. It was possible for someone to conceive the idea and then, using their skill, make it manifest. In most cases, the artist was talented, i.e. he or she did not encounter much difficulty in picking up the basic skills he would need in order to execute his grand works, which isn't to say that acquiring those basic skills came easily to them or that they didn't have to work for it.

Ambition without ability results in grandiosity and then failure. I think we might be uncomfortable with that idea, because we want to believe that anyone of at least average intelligence can achieve anything at all if they set their mind to the task. However, innately, we know that isn't true. Or, at least, if they do achieve it, then it the ship would have sailed long before they could benefit from what they had learned. In this case, the ship was the 2014-ish craze for ill-conceived cafe racers, and it's left the harbour, leaving this and other forlorn non-starters behind. Has realisation fully dawned on its creator? I wonder... Was it his lot or fate to simply be impressionable and hoodwinked by the whole cafe racer craze and spend all his savings on an unrideable piece of junk a tatted-up hipster sold to him? Was that the only means open to him to become and belong to a part of a scene, or was it a desperate bid for freedom from millenial thinking?

Well, I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking about it too much. But I think it tells quite a story. Especially with the quixotic addendum about random strangers being attracted to the bike.
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
That thing must be absolutely gutless and sound like shit with that exhaust and pod setup too.
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PostPosted: 23:01 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brava210 wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB250N-Super-Dream-Custom-Cafe-Racer-read-description/373517430469?hash=item56f75faec5:g:AUUAAOSwBipgTlF~

BID BID BID NOW


Of all the shitbox bikes in this thread, that's the first one that actually lead to an instant sharp intake of breath.

Slightly O/T, I frequently see a guy near where I work on an otherwise standard 250 SD, but with Ace bars - I've often wondered if he has an extreme form of kyphosis, or just fancies feeling like he's on a sports bike, without any of the performance/handling.

Edited to add: folks, if you're going to do this shizzle, put some thought into it, like this bloke

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429757587082272/permalink/3563811840343492/?sale_post_id=3563811840343492
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PostPosted: 23:54 - 31 Mar 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shaft wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429757587082272/permalink/3563811840343492/?sale_post_id=3563811840343492


Private group Sad

No need to look any further than the Ducati builds in Show & Tell Smile
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PostPosted: 00:19 - 01 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Shaft wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429757587082272/permalink/3563811840343492/?sale_post_id=3563811840343492


Private group Sad



Didn't realise that.

Basically, 750 Virago, modified with some thought to comfort, style and C&U regs, also set up on a dyno

https://i.ibb.co/m0kkfWN/121106808-10158973039325990-1189580660336078057-n.jpg
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PostPosted: 00:23 - 01 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not far off the look Yamaha were going with for the SCR950.
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PostPosted: 00:28 - 01 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Not far off the look Yamaha were going with for the SCR950.


Yep, I think he got it pretty much spot on, plus it's actually a usable bike, he had it 10 years and put 8K on the clock.

Sold today for somewhere very close to £3.5K and if I had that much in my back pocket, I might even have bought it.
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 01 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Someone made a Virago that I actually like? Isnt that one of the harbingers of the apocalypse? Laughing
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PostPosted: 00:09 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
virus wrote:
Someone made a Virago that I actually like? Isnt that one of the harbingers of the apocalypse? Laughing


I don't know if the good burghers at Yamaha knew this, but virago is a Latin word that literally means man-like woman, or more loosely, a woman with heroic and/or aggressive qualities.

My mate used to call his XV1100 the farrago, because it was such a mixture of pretty good and downright bloody awful Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:44 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brava210 wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB250N-Super-Dream-Custom-Cafe-Racer-read-description/373517430469?hash=item56f75faec5:g:AUUAAOSwBipgTlF~

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Sweet Jesus!

It had been customised by someone locally and I saw it a few times parked up in town and thought it looked really smart in the turquoise

(Norfolk accent)..you got shit in your eyes boy?
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PostPosted: 11:22 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote:
wow! that thing will go like shit off a blanket


Lmfao mate fucking lol'd Laughing
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PostPosted: 15:52 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
“When going the bike is very striking and people always want to stop and admire or ask about it”


hmm....
yeah...
mebbe....

but what sort of people?

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PostPosted: 16:20 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is what you want in these sensitive times

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZREAAOSwDupgYxe~/s-l1600.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R80rt-Cafe-racer-not-Bobber-Scrambler-Brat-Old-Skool/184741534032?hash=item2b03741950:g:ZREAAOSwDupgYxe~
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PostPosted: 16:26 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
This is what you want in these sensitive times

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZREAAOSwDupgYxe~/s-l1600.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R80rt-Cafe-racer-not-Bobber-Scrambler-Brat-Old-Skool/184741534032?hash=item2b03741950:g:ZREAAOSwDupgYxe~


Would you believe it? I didn't even notice the swastika and SS stuff before I noticed the cafe hoop and short pipes! Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
'Reserve not met'. No shit....
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PostPosted: 19:01 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fucking disgusting...

...couldn't even be bothered to rotate the photos even though it's a tool built into eBay!
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PostPosted: 19:56 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CX500-on-sale-from-the-first-bid/324548060127?hash=item4b909263df:g:bjMAAOSwd49gZIcG

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PostPosted: 19:59 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
“When going the bike is very striking and people always want to stop and admire or as

but what sort of people?

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PostPosted: 20:31 - 02 Apr 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
I quite like the BMW tbh.
There are a few things to set right. Plus I wouldn't ride it home without going over the tank with a can of matt black. But I've seen much worse executions of "cafe racers".

The CX500 reminds of the chair in this scene:

https://youtu.be/fhJjef8nBq4
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