cafe

Word has it that this is the “Brass Cafe” that Dime City Cycles did for season 1 of Cafe Racer

I didn’t get a picture of the info plaque so this comes from a friend. They had a booth at the RIH show and I’ll have more of their excellent bikes up shortly.

A sweet Honda CB 500 build from Bogota, COLOMBIA

Thanks to Cami Pinzon for this excellent cafe build.

Gorgeous 1976 Moto Guzzi LeMans series 1.

Jordan sends in this stunner of a Guzzi.

This is a 1976 Moto Guzzi LeMans series 1 that has had extensive work done by Rennsport.The engine has all the upgrades popular for the day.Dual plug heads ,rods,pistons,cam etc.Chromed BUB axhaust ,aftermarket mufflers.obviously custom paint reminscent of the 750S3 and 1000S.

Wow!

UPDATE: A Nice SOHC Honda Cafe Rider.

UPDATE: Rustin wrote in with some build info.  That’s an impressive engine!.

1976 Honda cb550k. The cylinders are bored out to fit cb750 pistons. Making the displacement 592. The cam is from a cb650. Dyna s ignition and coils. The exhaust is stainless replica of the yoshi exhaust. Dyno tuned at Twinline motorcycles in Seattle WA.

 

Rustin Olson sends in this nice rider.

I built this myself in my garage. Took sometime but I’m very pleased with the out come of my first build. If so I can send high res pictures.
Thanks

At the Spectacular Moto Guzzi Cafe!

A very nice surprise in my inbox today brought to you from Axel at Kaffeemaschine. Please do pay them a visit and take a look around. You won’t be disappointed!

Axel writes in:

I built the bike for Thomas Gruner, who had bought a ´89 Moto Guzzi Le Mans 4 in pieces a couple of years ago and didn´t really know what he had bought and how to put it back together again.
He asked me to build a custom cafe racer from his bits and pieces.

I was struggeling a lot with the totally crappy inside of his engine and some parts, it was obvious that he bought a disassembled bike which has had an accident incl. an engine damage. He immediately fell in love with the tank lying around in my workshop (though not really ideal for the high neck of the late Le Mans frame), which became his only definite wish for the bike.
Except for the tank, I built all alloy parts on the bike by hand, as usual. The engine and transmission got a total revision and now have brandnew stock Le Mans 1000 specs (950ccm, 81hp).
Even with the original power, the Guzzi is performing great after the 183kg “diet” (the stock LM 1000 is around 240kg…)- only the frame loses 3,5kg of steel.
The modified fork is of a California with special stainless steel discs. Brakes are equipped with modern calipers and a momentum support on the rear. Exhaust is Lafranconi, shocks are Ikon, the rev counter is from MMB. The minimal wiring harness is built by myself.

I think Thomas is not the guy who´d fit a totally classic motorcycle (in his case, that´s meant as a compliment). I chose the seat shape and the type of paint because of the impression I had of him- so I wanted it classic and elegant, but a bit of hot rod, too- away from the iconic Italian racer.

Thanks again Axel.

At the 1971 Triumph 500 Daytona Cafe with “The Crocetti Speciale!”

Thanks Mike! A real Beauty!

I have attached some of the latest photos of my 1971 Triumph 500 Daytona. I have put over 9,000 miles on it the last two years.
thanks, Marc Crocetti

At the Triumph Cafe.

Thanks to Tim Floyd who had no concrete info on the bike.

A really nice TU250 from NY NY.

Thanks to Anthony Jaswinski for the cool scoot. If they build one of these as a 650 I’d be all over it.

A Travis Lawson, Iron Spade Cycles bike that fell through the e-mail cracks….

..and shame on me.

You know I’ve got a very “confused” (long story) KZ650 sitting in my garage at the moment and looking some at of the bikes Travis has built has me inspired… Time to give the old gal some attention I think. I have a similar 750 top end and assorted mods but i think it’s back to stock for the engine (they were plenty fast really) for simplicity and reliability but something a lot different than stock with the chassis I think.

Here’s what he sent me back at he end of December.

I thought I’d send you these shots of a recently finished project I did for a close friend. Its a 1979 KZ650 that we punched out to a 810cc via Wiseco bigbore 10:1 comp pistons and a KZ750 cylinder. Quite a bit of custom fab was done for the GSXR1000 foot controls to mount as well as the ZX6 swingarm which is about 2″ longer than stock. The seat base is an Airtech designed for a CB750 and it fit right on with minimal cutting There is a 1/8″ alloy under tray that the seat base mounts to and hides all the electrics behind the custom alloy side covers. My buddy proudly served in the 82nd in Desert Storm so the paint scheme was even more fitting. Hope you like it. We’ll do a proper photo shoot this spring after a couple minor bugs are worked out of it.

I really like the seat work. I think the latest “Wrenchmonkee” flat-top style seat is getting a bit over done. This seems to fit the line of the bike better and those rearsets are a godsend since there are no proper aftermarket rearsets for the KZ650. Beats me why not.

RC181 Replica using a 1970s CB400 frame and a CB550 motor!

I didn’t get a name of the builder in the E-mail (drop me a line please) and the photo’s are a little small for what I usually like to post but this is so cool I posted it anyway. Really interesting hybrid with build pics in the gallery.