ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
Boy 1's been buying old 70/80s bikes and turning them into cafe racers... just for fun
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ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
the first bikes he went on 
WLA 45 Harley
Thunderbird
Superglide
WLA 45 Harley
Thunderbird
Superglide
binka
!!!!!!!!!
Nice. Our family photo album is full of pics like that too except fewer Harlies more old knackered Kawasakis!the first bikes he went on
WLA 45 Harley
Thunderbird
Superglide
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Boy 1's been buying old 70/80s bikes and turning them into cafe racers... just for fun
Have to say this really pisses me off. Especially when someone does it with classic BMW R-series airheads (my personal favourites, ever).
ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
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OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
Stopping at a layby somewhere in Hampshire on Saturday so I can have a smoko. I know I am biased but this is as good a bike porn photo as any. Have owned this bike 41 years, there's not a nut bolt washer or bit I do not know intimately
I have owned other bikes as well, and still currently have a Commando, but this bike will always have a special place in my garage!
Absolutely cracking little bikes these, I had one for a year or so. They look so cool, the frame, swing arm and castings are so detailed. Mine was straight red, looked pretty much exactly like this.
These were stunning looking. Notorious engine trouble though. 500cc 2 stroke V-twin made in Italy? Never going to end well
I saw that at the bike show at the NEC (iirc) once, completely ridiculous! Bet it sounds good
weltweit
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I don't recall the sound if I am honest nor the builder/rider's name but he also had a massive V twin there made from a segment of a large aircraft rotary engine. Ah, "Milliard" I think.I saw that at the bike show at the NEC (iirc) once, completely ridiculous! Bet it sounds good
Don't fancy riding pillion on thatI got a very blurry picture of it:
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And I am breaking a rule there, the rule that says "never show your bad photos to anyone!"
snadge
metal alchemist
It's a MXC 525 ( EXC racing with tighter gears and a 30% larger fuel tank) 510cc.
It needs a bit TLC, I think it may need new rings, it used to be raced and has had a lot of tuning done so the big money has been chucked at it already but when revved it does smell like there is some oil weeping past the rings, or it may be valve seals.
snadge
metal alchemist
Yeah it's a four valve, I have a dyno chart with it showing about 64WHP, revs to 13.5k, lol.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
That looks incredibly uncomfortable.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
My dad has a 1960s Velocette which he took apart to 'sort a couple of problems out' when my oldest sister was 18 months old. Inevitably it was a much bigger project than he thought and my childhood is filled of memories of him getting various bits and pieces re-fabricated or re-chromed. He reckons it's a couple of months away from being back on the road - my sister turned 40 last month!Stopping at a layby somewhere in Hampshire on Saturday so I can have a smoko. I know I am biased but this is as good a bike porn photo as any. Have owned this bike 41 years, there's not a nut bolt washer or bit I do not know intimately
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
That's unbelivable revs for a single! I'll be catching valves and maybe a piston at about half those revs! LOL!!
Oh they do, they're a hobby for ever! Many a time I have sat in the garage and just done nothing for an hour or so just to be with the bikes
So is it on the road now?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The Aprilia RSW 500 begs to differ! Harada regularly put it on the podium at tight tracks.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It's interesting how that was the "fastest bike in the world" at the time (even though it wasn't) but it's now slower than a bone stock S1000RR.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
I witnessed it very briefly running on the driveway last summer but apparently something wasn't quite right so back it went into the garage!That's unbelivable revs for a single! I'll be catching valves and maybe a piston at about half those revs! LOL!!
Oh they do, they're a hobby for ever! Many a time I have sat in the garage and just done nothing for an hour or so just to be with the bikes
So is it on the road now?
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
Good pointThe Aprilia RSW 500 begs to differ! Harada regularly put it on the podium at tight tracks.
Maybe I should've specified 'production' bike
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
thats actually a 1980 Kawasaki kz250... (just in case you thought it was a bmw)
The engine casing doesn't stick out far enough to be a BMW airhead. I just meant that over here it's become kind of a "thing" for every fucker and their uncle to turn a 70s or 80s bike into a Cafe Racer, or to chop it, and half of the "conversions" are done shittily, and just fuck decent old bikes up.
weltweit
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I made my scrapyard Suzuki into a sort of low rider, with lowered frame tubes behind the tank and a much lower rear seat mounted directly on a steel mudguard. I had to lower the battery box, make custom side panels and rear end. It gave the feeling I was sitting in it rather than on it which was nice and with flat bars there was no steering input from wind buffeting. I did have an idea for mounting a bikini fairing on the residual fairing mounts which held the clocks and headlamp but never got round to it in the end.
