blade cafe racer on ebay

agentpineapple · Post by **agentpineapple** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:55 pm

i will say that i like the cafe racer look if it's done properly on the right bike, but imho i don't think the blade is the right bike and this conversion is just wrong, the exhausts look like they come from a honda c90 cub, and don't even get me started on the indicators........

and when has a cafe racer ever had a single sided swingarm, and they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
just thought i'd post a how not to cafe race a motorbike

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cafe-Racer-Sp ... 20c08de463

tinysmall · Post by **tinysmall** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:12 pm

Think it looks dreadful. But then, i thought that about the storms that got posted the other week. A cafe racer is supposed to be small and skinny, single spine frame, smallish engine but with a bit of grunt low down for the traffic light GP, a tank and tail unit that are horizontal to the deck and most of all, they have to be beautiful. None of the recently posted ones have been.

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:23 pm

Yep like this one

And if I had the money I would own one

Sorry officer
The voices made me do it

Post by **Jazzscot** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:41 pm

For me it would have to be a red one.

Flatline · Post by **Flatline** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:53 pm

Not sure which type of cafe racer I prefer

Post by **Jazzscot** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:06 pm

Hows your seat coming along Flatline?

benny hedges · Post by **benny hedges** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:35 am

lloydiecbr wrote:Yep like this one

And if I had the money I would own one
Sorry officer
The voices made me do it

they look good in pics but when you see them close up they dont half look antiquated and waaay too heavy.
had a good look at a few at nec and decided theyre not for me....

was a fair few old bikes out today though.
saw an old matchless, absolutely pristine condition.... a 250 velocette, rocking horse teeth jobby and a bsa bushman in well used order! and others i didnt recognise

that blade has obviously been binned proper at some stage for someone to go that far with it.

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:36 am

I've always been a sucker for a good cafe racer, and remember that a fair few were done to CB750's when they first came out, there's a Brit in the USA who still chucks them out, and they seem to go well over there.

Vince somebody? Can't remember now.
Anyways, you can't knock the amount of work that's gone into it, and as for it having been in a wreck before, lots of secondhand bikes have, and you never know.
If they're rebuilt with new or 2nd hand original parts, there's often no way of telling.

As long as it's done well, with good engineering skills and no shortcuts/bodges, I'd be happy to buy a bike that's been rebuilt.

God knows, I've done enough myself!

But I'm always honest about it, if there's something that isn't right I'll make it plain when selling it; or just not sell it, of course.

One man's wrecked bike is another man's "just what I needed" project.

Flatline · Post by **Flatline** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:56 pm

Jazzscot, the seat has been fibreglassed, I will post pics soon

However Christmas and kids got in the way

Now going to give it a good sand and start to work out how to fix to the bike

Thanks for asking

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