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Vintage Style: Cafe Racers - The Downshift Episode 19
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I think it is a British thing so you expect them to be British bikes but some of the other are very nicely done as well
i lve cafe racers and have made loads of them out of all sorts of bikes , including beleave it or not ...a honda cr 500 crosser !
i loved that bike .
i dont look at it as a 50s 60s thing ! its like any thing it moves on , take motocross it started as scrabbling but we dont look at that as a 50s 60s thing and should be brit bikes , things move on .
i loved that bike .
i dont look at it as a 50s 60s thing ! its like any thing it moves on , take motocross it started as scrabbling but we dont look at that as a 50s 60s thing and should be brit bikes , things move on .
That's my thoughts also. It's the same with the V-Twin (V-Four) jap cruisers, they just ain't right. V-Twin Cruisers are Harley's not the latest jap wanna-bees.
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i think its all down to persinal perseption and what time you where born in , for me brits where dead and the jap 2strokes and inline 4's ruled !
nothing else was reliable enough or cheap enough to compete with them .
nothing else was reliable enough or cheap enough to compete with them .
I suppose it is also a very personal type of modification and it would depend on what the owner was looking for in his bike at the time. I once was going to do this with my spare Yamaha 360 two stroke. I was wanting a bike that had what the motor could do but in a racing style. Never did get around to doing it.
I agree; but, as Shane said, I guess it depends on when you grew up. I think a cafe racer should be a Brit or, at least, a European bike.
