Why build café racer scramblers?

[SirFallalot]

I know why, because people like it/feel like it whatever, but, really, why?! Apart from the stripped down part, the two concepts go in opposite directions. Mixing them causes such a compromise that, as repeated often, makes the bike worse than stock.
Isn't this like sticking clipons on a tenere or knobbies on an r6?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

It's because they are stupid wankers.
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[redeem ouzzer]

A bike is purely a tool to do a job. Anything that reduces the functionality of said vehicle in favour of fashion is perverse.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Like mylar and shaving people's heads for kicks....
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[stinkwheel]

What if nature demands that for every supermoto, someone has to make a cafe racer scrambler?

There must be balance in the force...
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[Bhud]

The trend is over a decade old, now.
In retrospect, all is clear. It was all about money. There were a lot of people who gave it a go, naively. Bikes were ruined, etc. Ultimately, it boiled down to a plan by some (ageing) old-school bike builders who pimped out the skills and experience they had gained making custom choppers, with the help of some very media-savvy millenials (who also made money). The horrible documentary "Oil in the Blood" has a bit of behind-the-scenes insight. It's a sort of cottage industry now, and fully established. It's also made a near-seamless transition to the mainstream, and manufacturers have been on the case for years.
I'm sure that's not the whole story but that's my impression.

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[Nobby the Bastard]

My bike is just a tool. The same as my car.

Anything else is lifestyle bollocks and I don't have time for that shit.
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[Ste]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I'm just as pissed off about the time I slipped with the stanley knife and sliced my finger as I am about the time I broke my arm falling on my bike. Both times I didn't achieve my planned goal.

It's a tool. Anything else is you treating it the same as you would treat a video game.
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[doggone]

I would of thought.
Creating a custom bike of any kind is essentially a form of art and personal expression like choosing concrete, grass, or flowers for your front garden

It's not as if making such changes rendered it impossible to ride to work or down the shops if you were so minded.
It would probably be a lot more practical for that than the latest race rep style that can do 165mph.
(What's the point of that BTW when you might only get over 100mph about twice while you own it.)

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[A100man]

[SirFallalot]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Bhud]

As usual, it's these yuppies to blame for creating that scrambler / cafe racer faux cult:

https://bikeshedmoto.co.uk/blogs/news/sunday-scramble

You've got to hand it to them though. They have been wildly successful. Going by their calendar, they have more events going than Ace Cafe. They also hold exhibitions which are more or less just art galleries (bikes not intended to be functional). In retrospect, at its root was just a cynical business enterprise, exploiting youthful folly, and they made it happen.

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[A100man]

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[chickenstrip]

Scrambled cafe racers...seems about right. Toast with that?
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[grr666]

I always thought knobblies and spoked rims would look smart on the Spacker. But bugger riding that bike on
lumpy tyres, especially with stock dampening. It's got a kinda retro XSR/flat tracker look about it anyway what
with the numberboards and all so it's only half a step away.
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[Ste]

Scrambled cafe racers, especially those with knobbly tyres, are inevitably going to become spare parts on eBay or at a breakers so everyone wins apart from anyone wanting a rear subframe that hasn't be chopped in half?

The only victim is the bank account of the person who wanted to make a custom cafe racer scrambler thing that's the same as every other custom cafe racer scrambler thing?