What's the coolest bike you've seen posted this year?

[grandpaul]

For me, it was in the Classics section of the Cycle World forum: a Featherbed NorBSA triple cafe racer with DOHC conversion, and ingenious use of a vintage A10 timing chest cover.

(I don't care for the bacon slicers or the drilled front fender, but it's way cool aside from those minor distractions)

 

[The Seeker]

Are those massive dual discs on the front and rear???

 

[The Seeker]

BTW....did anyone catch the latest episode of Cafe Racer?

They were doing a Triton.

 

[grandpaul]

Those trim discs are referred to as "bacon slicers". in this case, i don't care for them, but the bike itself is so cool, it doesn't matter.

The Cafe racer TV show (and magazine) is unbelievably full of errors in tech stuff. On the show, Mike Seate rides a modern Bonnie cafe racer with a "Triton" sticker on the tank; that's just sad. My alloy tank monoshock Norton came out in the magazine, and more than half of the "facts" printed about it were wrong. They also airbrushed out the Born Again Bikes logo on my trailer, and "squashed" the photo so the bike looks wierd. I'm wondering if they ever air any of my interview at Willow Springs, how it'll come out...

 

[CarlS]

Exactly why I have no trust of nor respect for the press.

 

[Rocky]

I have seen so many bikes, but I wasn't keeping any track or memory of them.
Sorry, can't add anything to the list.

 

[DaveM]

I cannot remember seeing any that really stuck with me

 

[otherwise]

Like Rocky,"I have seen so many bikes, but I wasn't keeping any track or memory of them".
Like Carl, "Exactly why I have no trust of nor respect for the press". That sucks that the aspect ratio of your project was changed. That's like an art gallery re working the paintings because the staff think they know better than the artist.
That bike has a lot going for it, it's a thing of beauty but I agree with you on the alloy sheets and the drilling. The problem with it is weight, those triples are just too heavy, a Commando motor or a twin Triumph would have been a better project. I have photos of a DOHC pre-unit twin Triumph, that would have worked well.

 

[Dilligaf]

The best bike I've seen all year is the one I just got off of.

 

[Rocky]

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The best bike I've seen all year is the one I just got off of.
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Very Good! I like that :y115:

 

[CarlS]

Well put, Gary.