Cafe Racer nonsense

[Trx envy]

Yeah i dont really understand the vitriol. If you want to put ape hangers with spiky bar ends and airbrush demon clown skulls all over your harley, it's your bike. If you want to paint the windscreen wipers, door handles, wheels and filler flap fluorescent green on your maroon VN commodore, so be it, it's your car. If you want to take a perfectly good zx10r and strip it, put mx bars on it, give it a pointy arse tail that sticks straight up in the air for no apparent reason, a predator mask up front, and again paint demon skull clowns all over it with blue flames then as long as it makes you happy. Each to their own, whether its to fit a stereotype or just to be a complete weirdo oddball, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you can't be wrong. I mean just about all of us have modified our TRX's to try and get them to perform, look and sound the way we want whether right or wrong.

[gizzo]

Anyway, if I can find the right bike for the right money, my plan is to build a bosozoku bike for the next DGR. Should be fun.

[davamb]

... bosozoku ...

Had to look that one up! Don't you want something a bit more naff as the donor bike?

[gizzo]

Aha, yes, I won't be doing that to a TReX. I was thinking Suzuki GS500 or Hyosung, something truly cheap and disposable.

[Trx envy]

Anyway, if I can find the right bike for the right money, my plan is to build a bosozoku bike for the next DGR. Should be fun.

Badarse

[Excalibre]

I like a good cafe racer.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but cafe racer conversions tend to be more accepted and less controversial if the donor bike is generally considered ugly to start with.
Case in point, this is my Honda CX500 (bracing for vitriol from the appreciation of CX500s community)



In it's original form


Of course, no one would ever consider changing the look of a TRX, given they are perfect straight from the factory

[gizzo]

Nice cx, man. I did one of those too, last winter. I grafted a set of USD forks from a hyosung gt250r onto it, so it looks good, has decent brakes and runs a modern size front wheel. Handles really well, too. I made a set of proper rearset pegs with fully functioning gear shift and back brake (if you know CC's, you'll understand). Id post a pic but it's too hard on this forum. Here's a link to my TRX cafe post http://www.trx850.com/phpBB_forum/viewt ... 26&t=12106

[Excalibre]

Thread hijack alert!!!

Respect for the rearset conversion. That is a very complicated process for the CX.
The goal with my CX build is for it to look like a survivor bike from the '60s. As such I've deliberately avoided anything modern looking such as upside down forks.
I'm in the process of sourcing some CX wheel hubs for a spoke-wheel conversion.

Nice cx, man. I did one of those too, last winter. I grafted a set of USD forks from a hyosung gt250r onto it, so it looks good, has decent brakes and runs a modern size front wheel. Handles really well, too. I made a set of proper rearset pegs with fully functioning gear shift and back brake (if you know CC's, you'll understand). Id post a pic but it's too hard on this forum. Here's a link to my TRX cafe post http://www.trx850.com/phpBB_forum/viewt ... 26&t=12106

[gizzo]

Have you seen the hubs by cognito moto? Expensive, but beautiful
https://cognitomoto.com/products/cx500- ... 889793#nav
Or you going to do the spoke flange thing? Both ends up being pretty pricey.
If you're interested in seeing my rearset solution, let me know. I can pm you a link to the build thread on another forum. It's very simple and inexpensive but effective.

[gizzo]

Better yet, I just saw your location is in Adelaide. Me too, so I can show you for real if you like. Plus, might be able to fix you up with a front comstar.

[davamb]

Have you seen the hubs by cognito moto? Expensive, but beautiful
https://cognitomoto.com/products/cx500- ... 889793#nav

Wow, that is metal art. I want something like that to improve the DPO's friggin' rubbish front brake job on my Commando. Been thinking of whipping sonething up in 3D CAD and getting it machined up.

[Excalibre]

Better yet, I just saw your location is in Adelaide. Me too, so I can show you for real if you like. Plus, might be able to fix you up with a front comstar.

Will send you a PM. Starting to feel guilty for hijacking the thread

[wreckage]

Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVY0uU5h3OY&t=24s

[Racer-unk]

not a fan of cafe racer either, but if you start with a crap bike and turn it into a good cafe racer, it's fine. But dont spoil a good bike and stuff it up on a whim.

[cobbadiggabuddyblooo]

Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVY0uU5h3OY&t=24s

That’s Jonny’s cafe.
He bought the first pair of pistons from me and has the matching maximum weight loss 878 pistons and Carrillo rods that are in my bike.