Centaro turned scrambler, poor thing, CL, San diego

[chuck peterson]

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/mcy/5547325699.html

[twhitaker]

Oh! The humanity!

[V7Sport73]

That's not something you would find in my garage!  Who had the idea that café racers are best suited with knobby tires?  Why would you strip every extra part off a bike to save weight and then put 25 pounds of rubber on the wheels?  Knobby's are just ugly on café racers if you ask me.  There have only been a hand full of café racers that I thought look nice.  Moto Guzzi's are easily turned into attractive café racers but this Centauro just doesn't cut it.   

[Scud]

I think there are several good-looking elements on that bike. Pity about the choice of a starting platform - maybe all the stock bits have been retained and boxed up.

I live in San Diego - and there are plenty of interesting places to go where knobby tires would be beneficial. But either this bike has never been there, or the owner is really good at keeping it clean.

I think the Frankenstein head on the tank is totally appropriate for this bike. The poor Centauro is "alive" but not quite the mix of horse and human that was originally.

[fotoguzzi]

I like it! I'd need a better seat and a front fender tho..

[Bisbonian]

I like it! I'd need a better seat and a front fender tho..

 :1:
I'd ride it.

[not-fishing]

Abomination to butcher a Centauro like that.  They are a rare and endangered specie.

He could have done it with a Honda CX500 or better yet a Gold wing.

[kevdog3019]

A cafe with knobby's.  Another fine example of a "scrambler".   

[Calijackalbob]

You can't deny it's a great looking Cafe Racer. I love it. With or without knobbies.!


.............. I'd do it differently. Keep the Centauro tank and trimdown the original Centauro bodywork...... but hey, that's me. This is very cool and original, despite being a million miles from the Centauro.

Maybe that's the point?

[kevdog3019]

You can't deny it's a great looking Cafe Racer. I love it. With or without knobbies.!


.............. I'd do it differently. Keep the Centauro tank and trimdown the original Centauro bodywork...... but hey, that's me. This is very cool and original, despite being a million miles from the Centauro.

Maybe that's the point?

It's not a bad looking example, but the knobbies on a cafe bike don't work.  What's the intent of a cafe "racer"?  We seem to be melding forms and functions and calling things whatever style we wish.  This is a cafe scrambler which does neither a service fundamentally. 

[ponti_33609]

I have seen more of these lately....cafe-ish with knobbies.  See folks referring to them as street trackers.  Like some have said I don't think they did a terrible job with it.

[rodekyll]

Clichémobile.  It's what happens when you mix your motaphores.

[Guzzistajohn]

Should be called "The Pete Roper Special" he would look great chasing kangaroos on that bad boy!

[pat80flh]

https://lancaster.craigslist.org/mcy/5544021910.html.    Another  scrambled.

[acogoff]

    My God. Apparently there is an ass for every chair on earth.

[kevdog3019]

https://lancaster.craigslist.org/mcy/5544021910.html.    Another  scrambled.

Precisely!!  Call anything a scrambler (a Griso... REALLY) and bump the price. I know a few folks on this board gullible enough to accept this "branding".   

[jlburgess]

Abomination to butcher a Centauro like that.  They are a rare and endangered specie.

He could have done it with a Honda CX500 or better yet a Gold wing.

Funny you should say that because there was a Gold Wing cafe racer for sale here in San Diego about a year ago.  Must be something in the air here? 

[bigbikerrick]

Funny you should say that because there was a Gold Wing cafe racer for sale here in San Diego about a year ago.  Must be something in the air here? 

It must be something "In The Water" there in SD! ! At least in Arizona, we can blame methamphetamine abuse for stuff like that:grin:
Rick.

[charlie b]

I've seen several of the older Gold Wings turned into nice looking cafe/bobber bikes.

The knobby thing is different.  I think the one craigslist posting said it, 'mad max' wannabe.  They just need to weld a few spikes on it  :)

I suspect the Centauro was kinda broken before he changed it, at least I hope so.  But, I am one who doesn't much like cafe bikes of any variety.

[krglorioso]

I have seen more of these lately....cafe-ish with knobbies.  See folks referring to them as street trackers.  Like some have said I don't think they did a terrible job with it.

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I could see this with street tires, but with knobbies?  As sensible as a Gold Wing with clip on bars.

Ralph

[wymple]

That Centauro is ugly

[Tobit]

Waistline is too high and the tank is too long but I like it otherwise.

[cruzziguzzi]

I figure another crash "survivor" so what's a fella to do without resorting to expensive body bits other than make it his own. In that vein - the Frankenstein - (FRONK-EN-SHTEEN!! ) logo is nicely expositionary.

Looks like a movie prop in the end... from the end? Either end!


Todd.

[Tom]

This thread is very entertaining....... baw...whaaaaaaa   

[Turin]

Yuck. It looks like the tank and seat were found on e-bay India and slapped on there. It's a shame because spine frame cafe's usually come out pretty.

[Tom]

 :1:

[Daleroso]

Eye of the beholder & all that will NOT make this bike right. No matter the rational.

[Penderic]

Too chunky looking for my kind of eye candy. Maybe it rides great.

I like to see beautiful street /track custom pieces that work visually well together....



 

[twowings]

"Datonna"?  you mean, like, in Floridy??

[cruzziguzzi]

While I'm generally an apologist for doing these sorts of things to Daytonas, Grisos and Sports as a way of maybe salvaging something from a wreck... I was over at a fellas home today looking at his "Triking" with a square Guzzi twin and got to thinking a four valve might look good in one of those.


Todd.