Don Shores sends in his latest:
Steve,
Just finished the Cafe project, 1979 CX500, epoxy primer, 2 into one exhaust, a few billet pieces, equaled a fun winter project.
Had to clean up the garage a little, while they were out I took a picture of the “BOYS” all together Have a great evening, I check out your site daily and enjoy all of the different rides.
Thx Don
Nice bike and great stable. Thanks Don!
Brian Bold sends in this nicely modded BMW. While I’m not an old school BMW expert by any stretch I know what I like and I love the style and line.
Hello
Here are some pictures of my BMW R51/3
The fairing is a Peel, Hoske tank and mufflers, Dellorto SS1 carbs. A lot of fun to ride, now it needs to just stop raining so I can spend more then 20 minutes around the neighborhood between rain.
The before pic..
There’s a LOT of nice bikes out there being let go of. Wish I had some coin to spend 😦
Hi there, first of all let me congratulate you for your website, is very good.
I’m from Portugal my name is João Castilho and this is my BMW R 80 ST cafe racer year 1985, i would like you post it for me, hope you like it!
Thanks
Best Regards
JMCastilho
Looks like a lot of fun. Thanks!
Do yourself a favor and go check out the rest of these pics over on Mutant Moto (link fixed)
Bret really gets it.
Thanks for the pics Bret.
Great lines…
And a VERY unusual manifold setup. A 4 cylinder manifolded to dual carbs. Very trick and probably a lot easier to tune.
I was a little slow getting this one out. I had an e-mail flurry a while back that I’m still sorting through. No way would I miss this beauty though..
Tyler Hammond wrote in:
Hello again,
I was excited to see my Norton on your blog….actually more like
honored to be amung other cool bikes……then I realized I have built
other cool bikes over the years. So i have transfered some pics from
an old computer to forward to you.
This is a 1974 Yamaha TX500 twin. It never really sold well, but its
claim to fame was it was one of the first Yamahas with DOHC. I built
this bike originally about 12 years ago (in Yellow) then revamped it
about 8 years ago, before the customization it was in stock format and
my daily driver. Its still basically a stock bike. with the exception
of the exhaust pipes I made myself (sportster mufflers) . The Tail
light is a 1959 caddy. I added another disc brake to the original
setup with little fuss…I did convert the master cylinder to handle
the Dual brakes. The Seat was also a custom Job i did myself by
cutting up the stock seat pan and some fiberglass. The bike did get
the complete frame up rebuild including powdercoating the frame. I
sold this bike about a year ago after nearly 20 years of ownership. Of
course Having a Norton Commando in the Garage makes it pretty easy to
forget about this old girl.
Tyler
This is too cool… Thanks To Keith Montgomery for the pics.
I’ve been getting a lot of good Honda CL and SL projects lately. Here’s another fantastic cafe which was built on a VERY reasonable budget.
Pete Boyd Writes in with the breakdown on this beauty of a bike:
All parts were bought off E-bay if I didn’t have them laying around. Paid $1200 for the bike and added $800 to get it done including what I paid for the stuff I had laying around. Hated the rat rod paint job I did so I paid another $200 to have the silver paint job done professionally. Did the mods after work and on weekends for a month. Still have some grinding left to do but it is already on the road! I am selling the stock stuff on E-bay so my total investment will continue to drop.
Rear brake heel activated
Gel battery etc mounted on the rear fender support
Cut off a Bonneville front fender brace for the heat guard on the pipes
Wiring pulled through down tube on frame
CB 200 gas tank with funky chrome strips and fake alligator pad!!
Finned engine cover
Ribbed front tire
Dropped headlight and instruments down several inches.
LED tail light
Pete
Thanks very much Pete!
Work in progress
The before pic. It’s always easier (and in the long run cheaper) to start with a well sorted bike. And to you purists out there ringing your hands, be honest. They’re not exactly rare and whatever parts he didn’t use went towards the restoration of bike that were a lot worse off. Win win!
Those rearsets are brilliant! Thanks again to Jim Jackson!
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