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Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:11 am
by Smokinjoe73
I have seen similar vtr projects but that is really beautiful. I like the 2 different wheels. Really awesome bike. I woulda gone double headlight. Which is a small nitpick.

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:14 am
by neil
Well done, that is differant. Would like to see that one

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:55 am
by bikerpiker
A work of art, fantastic lookin bike, well done :thumbup:

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 2:10 pm
by agentpineapple
good work buddy, i think i posted a pic of your bike in the bike chat section a month or so ago, i really like it, hows it fuelling?
i also like the mix of old and new, a lot of people fail when trying to achieve a special look, for example the christine named bike from the states, that looks awful.
any more plans to tinker with it stew?
as for the donor bike, i almost bought the rear end from it a while back, but the homemade nature of the rear subframe put me off.

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:07 am
by vtwin goody
Mate that is a gorgeous looking bike well done on the build

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:59 am
by Redthunder
That is seriously awesome!

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:48 am
by AMCQ46
epic piece of work there, especially if you made the frame and the exhaust pipes yourself!

it needs some fancy rearsets to finish it off and I would paint the 2 engine mounting lugs the same colour as the engine so they disappear...........but its easy for us armchair critics to pick out fine detail when none of us could have come up with the concept or fabricaton............you have made somthing very sepecial there so I assume it wasnt your first [if it was then you are a star!], so are there photos of your other projects?

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:39 pm
by Golgother
Hey

Credit to you, very original along with a sh1t load of work .................................. :thumbup:

Cheers
Matt

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:10 pm
by Kev L
How long did it take to build? The donor bike was still on E Bay up to a couple of months ago!

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:46 pm
by CB_Phil
Very nice, love the frame

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:10 pm
by stew
AMCQ46 wrote:epic piece of work there, especially if you made the frame and the exhaust pipes yourself!

it needs some fancy rearsets to finish it off and I would paint the 2 engine mounting lugs the same colour as the engine so they disappear...........but its easy for us armchair critics to pick out fine detail when none of us could have come up with the concept or fabricaton............you have made somthing very sepecial there so I assume it wasnt your first [if it was then you are a star!], so are there photos of your other projects?
Hi.... Sorry cant take the credit for the exhaust system had to have that made as too many tight curves to deal with.

Yes first bike build although have tinkered in the past but not to this extent.

No more projects on the go at the moment still tinkering with Rogue....

Thanks for the nice feedback

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:17 pm
by stew
Kev L wrote:How long did it take to build? The donor bike was still on E Bay up to a couple of months ago!
Hi....

I have been advertising the frame on ebay but don't believe there was a full pic of bike on the advert.

Check out the back ground noted earlier.

Thanks

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:39 am
by sirch345
The more I look at this the more it's growing on me :thumbup: I admire your skills and thought process of building something different based on the Firestorm, well done :clap: :clap:

Chris.

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:42 pm
by mik_str
Very neat! Kudos for the creativity and execution!

As an aside, what is the tail on the donor bike from and how hard was it to install....

Re: Cafe racer VTR something a little different....

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:45 pm
by stew
mik_str wrote:Very neat! Kudos for the creativity and execution!

As an aside, what is the tail on the donor bike from and how hard was it to install....
Hi...Thanks for your comments, the donor bike tail unit I believe came off a GSX model but had a handmade subframe to attach to bike so not an easy project.

Thanks