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Offline flangeman_70

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Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« on: May 19, 2015, 06:56:13 AM »
Don't get me wrong, I understand, accept and often admire the artistic and functional ideals of the café racer movement. Nevertheless, one needs to cast a critical eye over ones work occasionally.

This thread is where you can post those dubious efforts.

Let me start with this pearler from downtown Copenhagen.
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Offline NCAmother

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2015, 09:43:32 AM »
It looks like a dual sport bike, but not really.  Kudos for someone turning a wrench on a bike :)
PS  I hope it's safe.

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2015, 09:51:24 AM »
Unfortunately - when I see something like this, given experience here in Arizona and in California earlier - I leap to "tweaker". Then, after I absorb it a bit I begin to wonder if it isn't something of a crash salvage or a bike who's owner has taken modification as an alternative route to repair for financial reasons.

In any case, as with seeing a bubba'd surplus firearm and crying, "Oh, the humanity", I must remember, it's not mine.

Some of these cases though, a fella's just got to wonder at the direct bitch-slap to practical use or even safety. 'Course, I gotta remember the cars I loved and still build and their inherent design madness relative to the manufacturer's intentions.

I wonder in this case if his little sister knows he stole her tricycle lock and chain.

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2015, 10:03:38 AM »
Probably a decent dirt bike prior to the "transformation"
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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2015, 10:03:38 AM »

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2015, 10:15:49 AM »
That bike aint no cafe racer!

It lacks something.

What could it be?  ;)


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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2015, 10:20:55 AM »
Probably a decent dirt bike prior to the "transformation"
that's what I was thinking

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2015, 12:31:35 PM »
cruzzi posted "I wonder in this case if his little sister knows he stole her tricycle lock and chain."

Good one.  ;-T Me, I'd steal the chain.  ;D  I'm with Dusty on the Triumph. :BEER:
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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2015, 06:45:56 PM »
That chain speaks worlds of the builder's engineering ability..  ;D ~;
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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2015, 07:17:30 PM »



Hunchy found his bike.

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2015, 07:38:30 PM »
Guzzi Modo!

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Ugly bugger.

I found a movie prop maker site on the internet that made skull models of famous movie monsters - or what they would have looked like if they were real. I copied the one model picture of Quasi Modo ... for some reason I didnt like the other models.


I think one of the pics must be reversed by mistake ..... which side was his hump? 

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Re: Coffee Grinds or Café Racer
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2015, 08:41:45 PM »
..... which side was his hump? 
backside.
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