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the down side is that they really add to the width of the bike.
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The ones I had were kinda spring loaded so they could fold up to fit thru a door.... not that i would ever put my bike in the living room....to detail it...and watch the game....
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I bet you never baked VHT hi temp paint onto your valve covers in her oven, neither.:hmm: As in:"Honey, my pot roast smells odd. And I have this urge to go out in the garage and adjust the valves on your bug.":grin::grin:
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I found a Japanese Site that specializes in Euro Cafe style scoots. I like 'em a LOT! Check 'em out...it's all in Japanese, but go to Custom File and poke around.
Ritmo Sereno http://ritmo.heteml.jp/customfile/ar.../b-rocket1.jpg http://ritmo.heteml.jp/customfile/ar...s/leman3-1.jpg |
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That Moto Guzzi is sexy!!
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Wow ,
Man you guys have some nice rides !!! Mines not that old but i been working on it for three years on and off . The Frame is a creative cycle frame , the tank is made by John Little . My design is to mix old with new styling . I changed the color like three times and have not settled yet , but i'm leaning towrds a "rustic" look or weathered look . http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...Picture100.jpg http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...Picture101.jpg |
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Nice scoot bro!!
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http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...6/PICT0228.jpg The neck, front end, motor and wheels are from a Buell M2 Cyclone. I built everything else. 3 sides of the tank are from a 71 Honda CB175. (use just the IMG link from photobucket :) |
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Some one slap me! That thing is sweet. |
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http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...6/PICT0227.jpg http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...6/PICT0228.jpg Your scooter building skills are exemplary, but you pic posting skills...suc....ah..need work!:funny: The chain thru the oil bag is cool! Nice Jeep too! |
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I just found it on the web. Cool little sucker isn't it? :thumbsup:
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cool lookin scoot, im a big fan of drop seats but that looks like a honda dream tank to me.
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Concept BMW BCC!! Keepin' it in the horizontally opposed family!
http://thekneeslider.com/images/bmwlorider2.jpg http://thekneeslider.com/images/bmwlorider4.jpg Several factory options to make it "your own". http://thekneeslider.com/images/bmwlorider7.jpg http://thekneeslider.com/images/bmwlorider9.jpg You can voice your opinion to BMW Here. |
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Here's a bike I'm currently building. I wanted something a little cafe, a little dirt, a little rat. I think I'm succeeding so far. A lot of work to do, but it'll be together by Summer 09.
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awesome ride Beetle juice !!
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Did somebody say Cafe?:love:
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If someone would have said you wana buy a cafe off road bike. I woudl have said Hell no. But I also like that look.
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Now that's a great looking Cafe. But, have you ever encountered rain grooves with a knobby tired bike? It's kinda like they're going , "ooh, this looks good, no wait, over there, no, back this way." Not an experience for the faint of heart.
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I got some good news on a second job I picked up, and is VERY motorcycle related...
Last week I was talking to Mitch Bergeron at his shop, and he had been watching me build up my bike and must have been somewhat impressed to offer me a job, which I took!!! |
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Congrads Man!
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Good deal....... :thumbsup:
I'm very close to being re-employed myself....... if I can get time off I'll start going to the Pomona swapmeet again :dancing: |
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I'm damn excited about it. The first day there (Saturday) I began working on one of Mitch's own personal bikes.
He had me re-lace and true a 21" rim, mount a tire, and drill/tap the hub for a dual disk set up. Later on, he'll teach me how to TIG weld and use his english wheel. :dancing: Maybe I'll be able to fab up an aluminum tank for my Cafe bike... |
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Paid to work on bikes and build cool stuff...you are one lucky dude:welder::sawzall: Congrats!:dancing:
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:dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing::danc ing::dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing::dancing:: dancing::dancing:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...0ff52aae1a.jpg Brought this home yesterday! Now could some one please tell Mother Nature to turn of the damn snow machine!!!!! |
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Anyone have a set of CB 350 carbs they re looking to get rid of?
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Damn fine looking bike Bill!!!
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I need one of these!
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i have a honda cb350 im looking to get rid of... its got carbs on it but its a runner. just needs the ignition installed to start it but ive ridin it a few times before i semi redid the wiring. fresh tank paint (vw sea blue :funny:). custom seat made from vw running boards to look cafe'ish... needs new tires...
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there are parts and tips on how to do the conversions they seem to be much better than the amazonas conversions . thats the one im waiting forhttp://www.parttrade.com/Images/Used...ycle-Parts.jpg |
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Most of those bastards are cheap like us!! oh and matthewsuckerpunch, post your bike for sale over there. you will get a pretty good exposure. |
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word. i dont want to sell it but i have no way to get it to texas with me...
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Speaking of Cafe bikes...we were weren't we? Mike Seate has a new magazine out called Cafe Racers. Format is great with excellent photography and slick articles. He's starting a project based on a CB 750 which should be pretty cool. I was thinking about putting the clip-ons back on my Cafe Sporty, but my back and wrists responded with a resounding "No!" Instead, I'll swap the bobbed rear fender for a stainless one of undetermined British origin from my bone pile. 'Got an old period tail light too!
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Ooh, Iron Sporty. I've got an `83 I built into a cafe style. I was at the local Fair and a Harley Club was there and I told `em what I had and they said, "Wow, that's a really old bike, does it run?" :hmm:sigh.:wacko: Your bike looks nice, cafe or not.:thumbsup::thumbsup: Late `70s?
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My buddy Mike's Iron Sporty in it's first incarnation:
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Now that's nice. Haven't seen a coffin tank in a while. The kicker tells me Mike's got still got a good right knee.
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this is a pile of crap a guy gave me. so i fooled around with it.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...IMG_0002-7.jpg and this is what i did to it. it is almost done now. just needs wiring and finish welding and painting. the interesting part is, i have about 345 bucks in it!! the last pic is of my old hog. you can see the influence. http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/DSC00116.jpg http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...IMG_0005-6.jpg |
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Does this count as a motorcycle? :funny::funny: *mini hijack over* |
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Progress Update : seat pan Mounted, battery cover made, rear fender trimed out .
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Re: The '78 Sporty. I have no idea what it's worth. Best thing to do is ride it by some of the indy shops and see what they think.
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I'm on the edge of a very slippery slope with my latest aquisition... started out with a little TLC but I'm experiencing project creep which may well lead to lighter wheels and bodywork mods... I need to pull the swingarm, and the front end anyway, it wouldn't take much more work to strip it all the way and build it up how I really want! :love:
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mid 90's 900ss?
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Hmmm, and what have we in the background? And I don't mean the water heater.
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those waterheaters make good rockets.
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http://www.teamyikes.com/SuperSport/IMG_1015_l.jpg That'd be it from another angle or just go here for the whole story. http://www.teamyikes.com/160/ducati160home.html That's a '74 750GT partly hidden by the bike cover, and the flash in the background is the plate on the aforementioned 996. EDIT: Oh yeah, the yellow fender behind the 750 is for my Harely powered cafe racer project. I'm still collecting parts for that one. I need a wideline featherbed frame and a few other things still... ok, fine. All I've got so far is the fender but it's a start! |
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Um, wow great stuff, I just love Italian.:love:.You going to power the HD cafe bike with a Sporty engine? and is the water heater Italian too?:hmm:
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anybody have a set of clubman bars http://www.oldbritts.com/image/70_200006a.jpgthey want to trade for some vw parts? chrome is not necessary but i don't mind chrome ones.name what vw parts you need ill dig through and see if i got it
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Yeah, It'd be Sportster (or Buell) powered. I'm basically pissed off Harley has forgotten about it's sporting heritage and want to build something along the lines of my Super Sport, only Harley powered. (And before some young 'un gives me shit about thinking Harley has a sporting heritage, check the results at Daytona from the 50s to the 70s, then get back to me) But now I'm rambling... and no, the heater isn't from Italy! :funny: |
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this thing looks so aggressive I can't help but want one...
http://hellforleathermagazine.com/im...BMW_Bobber.jpg and I don't necessarily even like bikes! |
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IF anyone cares the BMW build can be viewed here DBBP.COM
You'll have to go to My Bikes, then BMW Mark does come amazing CAD drawings!!! http://74.54.120.132/dbbp/cadbikes/cadbike33/bmw_rz.jpg http://74.54.120.132/dbbp/cadbikes/k..._heads_151.jpg |
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Project Creep..neat phrase. Mine sometimes get bad case of Project Explosion.:blink: I get a bit or twelve and pretty soon I have a pile of parts going, "Hey baby, you know you want it.":hmm: What I really need is about 200 gallons of Spare Time.:panic::panic:
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Not exactly as motorcycle but dayumm!!
http://www.poweredstreetluge.com/rol.../WoS2008Me.jpg No gravity needed for movement ;) |
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He's supposed to be at teh motorcycle show in Baltimore in two weeks, so I'm ASSUMING so.:blink:
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Hey you should have been there at Speed Week for bikes. Some of them looked more like things you wore. I didn't see this particular one, but there was some really fun stuff.
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well not quite a death wish we think they are just another route to the quest for speed. roland and jenna are very close friends.we ride all the time i actualy own his old smaller engine one that's only good to 95 mph but the real fun ones are at http://www.poweredstreetluge.com/ but my favorite http://www.jetluge.net/ thats bobs luge and thats jet powerd |
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SO what class does it run? Land luge at 883 or 1200 ccs? Anything with a Sporty engine making it go is all good.:grin::grin:
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Car? But it looks like it has, um, five wheels.:huh: And at speed those front wheels must be just screaming. The tech guys must have been really scratching their heads.:wink::wink:
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I love the old Brit twins.To me they make better bobbers than H-D bikes.Im not hatin on Harley though.I just prefer Sporties.They look like actual motorcycles instead of overdressed bagger Yuppie bikes.
Now the hot bikes Im currently lustin after are new/late model stuff. I LOVE Triumphs new 800 Bonneville! Big bananna seat,blacked out wheels and fork legs. And all this for around $7000 . Im sure most of you have seen Harleys Nightster 1200. Its the coolest Sporty on the road.But just yesterday thay introduced a new Sporty called the Iron 883.Now its not as cool as the Nightster,but if youre gonna buy an 883 its definately THE one. '' Every time I do coke you give me the every time I do coke speech..." |
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http://thekneeslider.com/images/09iron883.jpg
It is nice and for $7899. Too rich for me but a nice lookin' scoot!! This Trump makes me tingle.... http://thekneeslider.com/images/egelandrocket3.jpg |
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Ahhh, a fellow Sporty guy. My old iron bikes still turns a lot of heads, mostly because the Harley guys can't believe something originally built waaay back in `83 still runs..and they don't get the Cafe look...go figure.:huh:
The nice thing about the new Bonnies is the aftermarket; and Triumph's own stuff is pretty cool too. I see a lot of Bonnies on the road and very seldom are they in standard trim. I really like the Scrambler. I had one for a loaner while my Tiger was in for a warranty gig at the dealer and a guy in a really clean `56 Chevy stopped next to me at a light and said ,"Hey, nice restoration!" :grin: |
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I came a signature away from buying a night train last year and decided I really just didn't need it. My brother in law kept telling me " you don't want a little bike like that" dude has has teh whole idae of what's a LITTLE bike all fucked up. He called my old Seca 650 my "scooter"
http://media.motortopia.com/files/11...7/DSC01103.jpg Growing up my long time high school girlfriend and a couple of brothers that were her uncles all races flat track Harleys. Needless to say, this is my idea of a real Harley http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/...portster-6.jpg http://totalcar.index.hu/totalbike/s...r/hdbuli/6.jpg I'd love to have one of these http://www.storzperf.com/images/XR-1200lr.jpg |
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I dont know what kind of "harley guys" you hang with....but most respect an ironhead.Dont get it around any of the rubs though......most of them dont know what a shovelhead is....let alone an ironhead.As far as cafe bikes go......well,ya just gotta be hangin with the rubs.Cafes are cool.Heres a 74 ironhead I had.....fun bike,but yer eyeballs buzzed at anything above 60!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ie2/Scan-1.jpg My Buell http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...kestuff012.jpg My shovel http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...2/100_2453.jpg shovel seat http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...2/000_0043.jpg bagger http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...2/000_0034.jpg |
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I get a kick out of some of the people with the big twins that think sporties are "little" bikes.My two currents are the shovel and the bagger I posted.If my wife never rode with me,and I dumped the old bagger for a new bike......it would be a nightster.My bro in law got one.......very nice bike!Im interested in that 883 there was talk about too.I had a 96 883 with a steel ural sidecar on it.....that 883 went all over the country without issue.
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I know it's virtual sacrilege to post a Chinese "copy" bike, but this looks pretty cool....in a Storz way....and much cheaper!
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:chillin:Back in the mid 80s they used to have bike shows at the Macon Mall.That was where I saw a factory Sporty done up cafe style.It was tween an 81 and 83,right the Evo years.It was like a 1000 cc,XL somethin .Had straight low bars behind a tiny black ferring.Cool part about it was it was a complete departure from the rest of the H-D line.Remember this was way before Buell.Back then I didnt even have a drivers license,much less a bike license.All I wanted was an old $1500 Sporty{which the paper was full of back then.
My Triumph love came from this cat in my neighborhood named Ronnie Davis,known to most just as R.D. He was THE Triumph guy.He had at least 20 lined up in the back yard.But he had this one that was on a rigid with a diamond tank, bright orange metal flake,pitchfork sissy bar and a twisted springer front end that stretched out into next week.Oh and no front brake,of course.And man was it loud.He used to ride it on Halloween wearin bell bottoms,no shirt,glow in the dark face paint and his Stormtrooper helmet.Man,dont fear the reefer.Sadly he has passed on and all the righteous Trumps are gone.Ride on R.D. ...''Its a highway song You sing it on and on On and on..."" |
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I don't care who builds it, thats a sweet clean looking bike. Very much an update of an early 80's style sport bike before the move to the crotch rocket cafe bikes. Definitely a Storz and XR look alike, but change the colors and the pipes to a sport bike pipe and it could also look a lot like any number of the CB models and clones running around the third world. Still, it looks like it could be a fun little bike. I'd love to have another VT500 Ascot. It was a total wheelie machine. That looks like it could easily be what honda would build as a modern interpretation of the classic V twin flattracker. Sell it for $2500-$3K and I'd at least look at one. |
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jt1911........I grew up in Forsyth!MN now though.I remember those shows at the mall.There was another small mall with a killer buffet.....they used to have a few indoors once in a while.You dont by chance know of a killer engine guy named Lee Vullo,or Ray Bowden do ya????
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Richie; If youre talkin about Forsyth,thats where I lived in 04 when I got out of the joint.The smaller mall youre talkin about had to be Westgate Mall.Thats where the bike show started.Had some good car shows there too.The buffet was called The Quails Nest.All thats gone now and that whole side of town is serious ghetto.
I hear alotta people say they dont like the Sporty style tank.Funny, cause thats one of my favorite features.Even if I had/built a big twin bobber Id use the Sporty tank. Ive never met them cats you mentioned.See,I probably sound older than I am.{38 this month}So I kinda missed out on all the cool scooters.Not to mention Quaaludes and 8 tracks. Im still flyin the 70s/ Trash flag though.With my Molley Hatchet t shirt and PBR tallboy can. Did I mention the VW tat on my right ankle? But seriuosly,Polaris made a good start back around 00 with the Victory line.But then they they axed the sport bike model that I liked.Now theyre just a bunch of over chromed over priced Canadian shit.To be honest, that newish 800 Bonnie is the best scoot rollin right now.The Bonneville America model is nice too,but it just dont have the appeal of the retro model.Just wish I had some money or credit. |
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i thnk ive posted it before but its pretty insanely awesome... in a sick sortof way
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just thought i would post up a few projects i've been workin on...if you want to see more pics of them or some of my other projects they can be seen here..myspace.com/streetsweepers_chop_shop
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