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mglemans86

I have a 70 Commando "S" about to become (over the next yr or 2) a period Cafe Racer. Biggest expense will be the alloy tank

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ooobaby

Yep, I'm building a Triton and I can't wait until it's done! Just picked up the primary cover off eBay today. Too cool for school.

Stuart_O

This started as a standard Commando Interstate. Converted to a cafe racer with rear sets and home-made clip-ons.

Sold about 2 yrs ago. Now riding a Sprint ST and my new Can Am Spyder.

Stuart

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Brooksie

Great stuff! Sort of sums up my attempt to create a cafe bike with my '04.

These are great photos of really cool bikes that are the real deal! If only I lived closer to Baxter Cycle!

Nickwiz

Time for someone to put a moern bonnie engine in a featherbed frame me thinks.

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McQueen

Nice. That's Elkz!! Ton Up Club London representing.

We're everywhere...

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Nickwiz

But lets be real for a moment. Those cafe racers are beautiful but .... they are stuck in a time warp. I believe that the modern sport bike rider is the real inheritor of the cafe racers place in motorcycle culture. After all a cafe racer was just a sport bike circa mid to late 1960s. Rockers today? They'd be riding Daytonas wouldn't they? Otherwise given the logic that a cafe racer has to be a 60s triumph clone the rockers would've all been riding rex acme flat tank TT racers wouldn't they?

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Nochicanes

Bloody Heresy I'd Say!! Cat's lost his marbles......

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mglemans86

+1 Nickwiz. It's all evolutionary. Like they say the first car race happened when the second car was made. There were always the repli-racers coming out of the factories with hopped up motors and a notch or 2 or 3 down from the factory race bikes, Race them on Sunday sell them on Monday. And the hooligans would work them up from there and make them their own as long as they were faster than their buddies and looked cooler. It's still happening today with repli racers be it bikes or tuner cars. Or you can buy a DucatiD16RR which pretty much a GP bike except it only costs $72,500. Then it was doing the TON now it's doing the TON X 2

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steventhechef

I'd love one just for the hoon value. They're great IMO..

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