Triumph - Metisse Cafe Racer Kits

[DaveM]

This is very COOL. I would however do it in a deep red

Source - Metisse cafe racer kits

If you’ve got a recent-model Triumph Bonneville, Thruxton or Scrambler in your garage and want to upgrade it, you’re in luck. You’ll find a dizzying array of options to choose from, with full cafe racer kits at the top of the tree.

One of the best kits we’ve seen comes from the German accessory specialist Metisse (no relation to the English company of the same name). After launching kits for the BMW R1200, designer and Metisse owner Horst Edler has added a new model: the Metisse Triumph CR900.

The CR900 cafe racer kit fits any 2001-on model from the Triumph ‘modern classics’ range, and prices start from $3,700 including tax. The base kit includes an upholstered aluminum seat unit and a polished aluminum fuel tank, with a mount for the original fuel pump
 and a lockable filler cap. You also get an
 LED taillight,
 a number plate bracket with indicator mounts, 
a lowering kit for the instruments 
and a decal set. We’d prefer a stitched brown leather seat, but otherwise the look of the bike is absolutely spot-on.

If you want to buy a ready-built bike, the German Triumph dealer ZTK will assemble one for you—which would cost $15,000 or more, depending on spec. And yes, that includes the cost of the bike too.

Metisse also offers hop-up parts including belt drive kits, Wilbers suspension made to Metisse specifications, Gilles hand controls, rearsets and lightweight bolt kits. And since the company operates in Germany, all parts are TÜV approved—a good guarantee of quality.

Just add a 904 big bore kit and a Power Commander, and you’re good to go.

Full details on the metisse.de website. Head over to our Google+ page for a hi-res gallery.

 

[Rocky]

Interesting, but it's not for me.
Too impractical and single-purpose.

 

[DaveM]

It would need to be a second bike I suppose

 

[Rocky]

It would need to be a second bike I suppose

It would be fine as a single bike for local riding, but not very comfortable if you wanted to do any travelling.
But then it all depends on your tastes and purpose for having a motorcycle.
If you had the money and space it would be nice to have in the fleet, but I guess I'm just an old fart as these types of bikes have never had any appeal to me.
I like to sit up straight and look proud when I'm riding

 

[DaveM]

Funny with all my bikes I have felt most at ease when using low bars like this. I sort of feel that I am more a part of the bike then when I sit up straight. Besides the off road bikes the Speedmaster is the only one that I have not changed the bars to the down position. I just feel it would not work that great on the Speedmaster

 

[hemibee]

Nice bike. Like you, I'd like to see a red one. . . and a black one, white one, blue one . . .

 

[CarlS]

They did a really good job; it is a great looking bike. However, it is definitely not my style.

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

For me I think that it works a lot better than BMW's offering. But I too am not a great fan of the head down arse up riding style. That said though I do like to see a nice Cafe Racer, and I feel that this ticks all the right boxes, almost

 

[shanered6]

as far as im concerned mitisse are the true triumph customizers and have been doing it for years .

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Here is a Kawasaki 650 Cafe Racer. If it had Triumph on the tank and the engine it would be a neat Cafe Racer. Still it isn't that bad as it stands

 

[CarlS]

Not bad at all. I like it.

 

[DaveM]

Good job done on that one as well but on both of them I would still have the bars a bit lower than what we seeing here. I always used clubman bars on my road bikes as it always made me feel more part of the bike and not sitting on top of it.

 

[bullet]

This is something I can see in my shed, and again the build is fantastic but the selling point for me is the colour, that is a awesome green.