Author Topic: Let's see some cafe racers!!! (Read 332399 times)

Amboman · « **Reply #90 on:** June 19, 2008, 04:56:38 PM »

The ultimate cafe racer:

'88 Safari 300MT - expansion chamber exhaust, racing 1/4 fairing. What a beast! ;D ;D

Offcamber1 · « **Reply #91 on:** June 19, 2008, 05:27:28 PM »

Amazing. Three pages of bike pictures and not a scantily clad woman in sight.

You guys are sick!!

Nolan Woodbury · « **Reply #92 on:** June 19, 2008, 10:50:34 PM »

My cafe' racer project involves trying to turn this:

Into this:

...yeah, I know...there's a ways to go.

It'll have to happen after I finish my Convert, and one other minor project. But you know what? The Honda has been sitting since last October, and after just a couple of spins it started and ran smoothly. Try that with your Bosch starter Guzzi breath! ;D

It's a 1975 CB 750K, btw.

Cafe' racers rock!

JJ · « **Reply #93 on:** June 20, 2008, 12:15:21 PM »

Nolan -

First, you need to read ths book! :) ;D :) ;D :)

Seriously though, that would be a GREAT project! - - but you had better farm-out some of your other bikes to fund this project! ;)

Guzzista_Joe · « **Reply #94 on:** June 28, 2008, 11:27:02 AM »

Nice V50 based caf racer here:

http://guzzista.wetpaint.com/page/Moto+Tubo

...look at the bottom of the page...and turn those speakers up! :)

...and this:

MAGNI SFIDA

...and this:

V1000G5 CAFE

Doug McLaren · « **Reply #95 on:** June 28, 2008, 02:14:07 PM »

Here's an update to the Squadra Guzzista feature if you fellas are interested. The silver cafe racer shown above (Dougs) is no longer mine. I sold it last year as I wasn't using it enough to justify keeping it. I still have the MK1 and MK2 Le-Mans though and the 900 Monster. The MK1 is plodding along just nicely although the welded seams on the underside of the tank are starting to show some rust so that'll ahve to be done soon. The MK2 is going well too. I've just replaced the Lucas Rita with good ol' points and I've removed the straight cut 'box and put in a normal 5 speed. I found the gearing, particularly 1st, a bit too high for stop-start town traffic, and as I use the bikes for commuting it had to come out as the clutch was getting a real hammering.

Thanks for showing the pics Joe.

Regards

Doug

JJ · « **Reply #96 on:** June 28, 2008, 04:13:27 PM »

Doug -

Welcome to the Forum! How about some photos of your other bikes, especially your 82' Le Mans-III! :) :)

Thanks in advance! ;D

JJC

Guzzista_Joe · « **Reply #97 on:** June 29, 2008, 10:48:17 AM »

Quote from: Doug McLaren on June 28, 2008, 02:14:07 PM

Here's an update to the Squadra Guzzista feature if you fellas are interested. The silver cafe racer shown above (Dougs) is no longer mine. I sold it last year as I wasn't using it enough to justify keeping it. I still have the MK1 and MK2 Le-Mans though and the 900 Monster. The MK1 is plodding along just nicely although the welded seams on the underside of the tank are starting to show some rust so that'll ahve to be done soon. The MK2 is going well too. I've just replaced the Lucas Rita with good ol' points and I've removed the straight cut 'box and put in a normal 5 speed. I found the gearing, particularly 1st, a bit too high for stop-start town traffic, and as I use the bikes for commuting it had to come out as the clutch was getting a real hammering.

Thanks for showing the pics Joe.

Regards

Doug

Pleasure's all mine Doug! That bike's a beauty! I'm glad the LMI's still soldiering on! Great to hear from you again.

J

;D

guzzihack · « **Reply #98 on:** July 04, 2008, 07:38:52 PM »

Hello, All.

I'm a newbie here who just found your site yesterday. I was searching on cafe racers (can never get enough) and stumbled into you guys. I've cafe'd almost everything I've owned including my Convert with sidecar; thus the screenname. If I can figure out how to get pics from my documents to this page, I'll post a few. Nothing too fancy but some fairly weird.

Can anybody give me a quick lesson on posting pictures? I'm a bit of a computer idiot who's tired (and embarassed) of asking his very understanding wife to do it for him.

Guzzista_Joe · « **Reply #99 on:** July 05, 2008, 07:44:24 AM »

Hi there, there are two ways to upload pics to the forum:

1:- With a photo hosting account, such as "Photobucket" and similar you upload the images from your PC into the image host service. Once the pics have uploaded look for the IMG code which will be displayed with the image. Simply copy that code and paste into the forum message window. The moment you submit the message the image will be displayed.

2:- If you find a pic on the internet somewhere you can right click the image with the mouse, then select "copy image location" from the pop-up menu. This copies the URL of the image into your PC's clipboard. In the forum message window, look for the "insert image" icon ( this is the second from the left just above the smileys ) Click that once, then right click and select paste, this adds the URL you have just copied. Then click the select image icon again. On the message window you should see something like this: [IMG]then the URL you pasted then /img] Once you submit your message the image you copied from the net will be displayed.

I hope that helps.

Regards

Joe

guzzihack · « **Reply #100 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:31:38 AM »

Thanks, Joe.

Let's see how I can bungle this...

Okay, so you say I need to use something like Photobucket. I have managed to successfully email pics straight from my docs and also to put them onto craigs list that way. Guess there's no way to go straight from computer memory to post?

Did I mention the word idiot?

dhansen · « **Reply #101 on:** July 05, 2008, 12:57:57 PM »

Carl, there is something about the naked V11 that is just so right. Hanging any extra bodywork on them doesn't do it for me, not even the LeMans or Tenni. (Sorry guys)!

mille108 · « **Reply #102 on:** July 07, 2008, 09:37:33 AM »

Hi, here is mine...

Its a 93 daytona with modified headstock(2 degrees steeper) and Aprilia front end.
Rear wheel is a Modified Aprilia 6 inch rim cut down to 5,6 inch to fit dead center.

Exhaust is home made and now we are starting on a aluminium subframe with different seat unit,aluminium swing arm,,after that the injection will be ditched in favor of some flatslide carbs.

Regards from Holland

Barker45 · « **Reply #103 on:** July 08, 2008, 02:50:29 PM »

Mille108,
That is beautiful!!!!! WOW

guzzimike · « **Reply #104 on:** July 08, 2008, 04:04:02 PM »

Agreed...!!!

That is a totally BADASS bike..! 8)

Congratulations.

JJ · « **Reply #105 on:** July 08, 2008, 04:11:35 PM »

mille108 -

That's one sweet looking Guzzi! WELL DONE! 8)

JJ

blackcat · « **Reply #106 on:** July 08, 2008, 06:31:46 PM »

Now that is a nice bike. Too bad the factory can't make this sort of bike.

mille108 · « **Reply #107 on:** July 09, 2008, 02:06:24 PM »

I do a lot of trackdays with more modern twins,and i always liked the looks of the 4v engine...so i bought one without even doing a test ride.
Loved the engine from day one but the handling was not to my liking aswell as the brakes and the tire limited choice you have on a 18 inch rim.
So it all started from there,i bought a set of mikuni 42mm flatslides they will go on the bike when the programble ignition is in because the weber injection unit is also intergrated in the ignition system.

Guzzista_Joe · « **Reply #108 on:** October 30, 2008, 07:52:24 PM »

guzzimike · « **Reply #109 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:57:23 PM »

Quote from: Guzzista_Joe on October 30, 2008, 07:52:24 PM

I like that... 8)

rboe · « **Reply #110 on:** October 30, 2008, 09:55:26 PM »

Add a cafe' fairing and change the colour and we'd have a winner there.

LeRoy · « **Reply #111 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:18:01 PM »

If it's not amiss, I'll depart from the Guzzi theme while sticking with Cafe Racers. First, another in a long series of bikes I never should have sold. This is a Rickman CR that I built up from a brand new rolling chassis with a 750 Morgo-kitted, 5-speed Triumph Bonneville engine. What a sweet bike. I rode it from Michigan to Maine and back one summer, camped every night, ate lobster at least once a day and had the two middle fingers on my right hand go numb for months afterward. Vibration? Yes, why do you ask?

Next up is a classic John Player Norton in a naked white scheme. Reproduction, you ask? No. Just the result of a repaint and rebuild necessary after I crashed it on the ride home from Green Bay, WI to the Detroit area. Maiden voyage, indeed. At the time you couldn't buy the replacement striping kit for love or money. And I wouldn't want to try to find another set of the original black chrome black-cap silencers today. They were painful enough in the '70s.

I'll end with a project I've been diddling with for over 20 years. It started out as my idealized mental image of a Cafe Norton, but based on the last model 850 MK III Commando electric start. This one has a 920cc kit, Amal MK II carbs, Curley Specialised Mouldings seat and tank, Ian Kennedy full fairing (bought from Mr. Kennedy his self), Akront high-flange alloy wheels, hand pinstriping in the traditional Norton livery, and a wealth (trust me, I've added it up once) of the nicest goodies available. And it's still not done! In the meantime, I've aged considerably and may not be the spry young lad who once thought nothing of throwing a leg over such a contraption. When I finally finish it they may have to lift me vertically from my walker and lower me on to the seat. But I'll go out with a flourish.

zeta · « **Reply #112 on:** December 05, 2008, 09:45:41 PM »

My favorite helmet ad--ever!

JJ · « **Reply #113 on:** December 09, 2008, 03:15:31 PM »

55_Velo.jpg (3.1 MB)

WeirdTim · « **Reply #114 on:** December 09, 2008, 04:20:24 PM »

ROBOTMAN · « **Reply #115 on:** December 09, 2008, 04:38:22 PM »

weird Tim, That is a STINKY bike! I salute you, sir!

weevee · « **Reply #116 on:** December 09, 2008, 05:02:24 PM »

Love that one WeirdTim. ^^^^^^^^^^ Looks a real brute!
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guzzipaddy · « **Reply #117 on:** December 10, 2008, 01:13:58 AM »

Hey WeirdTim,

That is one sweet bike. Maybe the Moto Guzzi design team should take a leaf from your book as this is just the type of bike Guzzi should be building with a BIG twin motor not the small twin motor they are using like in the V7 Classic. It's a credit to you! :P

WeirdTim · « **Reply #118 on:** December 10, 2008, 10:16:12 AM »

There are a lot of really great looking bikes on this post.

Appreciate the praise from Ireland and the UK as well.

I'm always making "improvements" with simplicity. Thinking about removing the turn signals, but not sure yet. We'll see.

Weevee that MV is something else......a bike with a fairing where you can still see the velocity stacks....way cool.

Doug Doolin · « **Reply #119 on:** December 10, 2008, 10:54:59 AM »

http://www.caferacermag.com/home.html

Doug

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Author Topic: Let's see some cafe racers!!! (Read 332399 times)

Amboman

Offcamber1

Nolan Woodbury

Guzzista_Joe

Guzzista_Joe

guzzihack

Guzzista_Joe

guzzihack

mille108

Barker45

guzzimike

mille108

Guzzista_Joe

guzzimike

WeirdTim

ROBOTMAN

guzzipaddy

WeirdTim

Doug Doolin