Moto & CafeRacer
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Ci sono gli assatanati della pura prestazione, gli amanti della bella meccanica, i fuoristradisti, i modaioli,i viaggiatori tritakilometri per non parlare dei "fanatici" di marca e altri ancora. Eppoi ci sono quelli innamorati di una motocicletta "antica", tutta di ferro, nata in Inghilterra molti e molti anni fa, poi emigrata in India dove è rimasta uguale a se stessa, anacronistica e sorpassata e quindi più snob e anglosassone che mai. La ROYAL ENFIELD costruisce ,oggi, moto che non erano moderne nemmeno quando sono nate, monocilindriche 350 e 500 di potenza terribilmente modesta, telaio in tubi di concezione non proprio "racing"e sospensioni .......... si vabbè. Eppure a guardarle ci si può invaghire di questi vecchi attrezzi metallici. Tant'è che in più paesi occidentali stanno aumentando gli estimatori di queste motociclette e con essi la voglia di "personalizzazione", alla quale ben si prestano le "BULLET"
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" Back in May of 2010 I just walked out to the shop one morning and started planning the frame for this bike. Beyond “build a Triumph dirt bike” there wasn’t much of a firm plan." Says Clay Rathburn from Atom Bomb Custom Motorcycles . While I was laying the frame out, I kept running into the fact that the motor was too big, so I cut the front motor mount “triangle” off the cases allowing the engine to be slid much closer to the front of the frame. That let me design the frame and swing arm such that I got a swing arm 3.5” longer than a stock OIF Triumph with no increase in wheelbase.
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Yamaha’s underrated Virago from the 1980s is really gaining favor as a custom base. Classified Moto have already shown the way, and here’s another terrific example—this time from Greg Hageman of Doc’s Chops . It’s a 1982 Yamaha XV750, and it was built for Season Two of Discovery Channel’s Cafe Racer TV show. Hageman built a new subframe to support the lovely, wasp-like seat unit, and lowered the forks by two inches to improve the stance.
Yamaha XV750
The Honda CX500 , commonly called the Plastic Maggot (or “Clitoris” because every C%$T has one) was a favourite of couriers in Australia and the UK. Reliable it was, good looking it certainly wasn’t. They have always had a bit of a cult following and people have chopped them up and cafe’d them for years, mostly with disastrous results.
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Happiness comes in many forms and today it comes in the color of a beautiful ripe California grown tangerine. What started out as a rough build has been molded into something much more finished featuring 525cc’s of growling KTM fury. This is our next evolution of the Café Moto concept, an ever evolving project that shifts and changes with every bike we do. And yes, we made a real gas tank for this one. All the body work is hand-made aluminum, fabricated here at the RSD compound.
KTM 525 EXC | Roland Sands Design
Il y a à peine plus d'un mois, on est allé la chercher ensemble du côté de Toulouse. On l'a mise sur la remorque et on a rigolé gentiment. Elle avait une drôle de gueule "custom-choper" à la Johnny avec son phare gros comme un saladier, mais nous, on était pas dupes, les costumes ça se change, et pendant les 700 bornes du trajet retour, on a rêvée en détails chacun des nouveaux vêtements qu'on voulait lui offrir. Quand on l'a déchargée dans son garage à une plombe du mat, il m'a dit : - Tu l'aura pour dans un mois, on ira à Leyment au rassemblement du LOC avec ! Je n'y croyais qu'à moitié.
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The Ryca CS-1 is a 650cc, air-cooled, single cylinder café racer designed to be lightweight, reliable, and fuel efficient for urban commuting. The engine and chassis components are sourced from the unsung heroes of the thumper world: the venerable Suzuki S40. You can purchase a new CS-1 or build your own from custom parts. The bike was designed by Casey Stevenson of Ryca Motors in Los Angeles. Casey was an engineer at NASA.
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J'ai repris le tout un peu plus dans les "règles de l'art", avec cette fois une mesure des diagrammes pour comencer, puis des essais pour déterminer quelle épaisseur de cale d'embase ajouter sous le cylindre pour m'approcher de valeurs trouvées sur le net. Valeurs a priori acceptables pour une utilisation routière, qui permettent de conserver un poil de couple. En gros, j'ai simplement ajouté une tôle alu de 15/10èmes avec un joint d'embase de chaque côté. Le haut du cylindre était déjà raboté (collerette supprimée), la culasse y a eu droit aussi.
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Si d’aventure, vous assistez à une course de « classic », il y a de grandes chances que vous aller les croiser aux détours des paddocks, près de leur camion ou en train de « mécaniquer » une de leurs préparations. Si la compétition les a animés depuis plus de trente ans, c’est vers la préparation de machines de courses et de « café-racer » que Alain et Renaud se sont désormais orientés. Pour cet article, nous allons vous présenter une des dernières productions sorties des ateliers « Mombaerts », à savoir un café-racer sur base de R100RS de 1978. La machine a bien sûr été complètement démontée pour contrôler l’ensemble de ses pièces.
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QUOTE (onelung @ Nov 9 2010, 02:18) BTW, I recently got to heft a square 4 Ariel cylinder head: LOTS of weight! Big lump of engine indeed.
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Cafe racer conversions are all the rage, and, as we all know, anything popular is often done very badly, but every now and then, someone with a bit more skill and a good eye puts his hand to the job and the finished product makes you sit up and take notice. Starting with a rather rough and ratty Honda CX500 donor bike, you can build a sweet little cafe racer by adding your own labor and this very well thought out kit from Ian Saxcoburg, a mechanical design engineer by day and savior of old and abandoned CX500s by night. There are usually quite a few CX500s to be found in varying states of disrepair waiting for someone with a project in mind to take them home and show them some love. Their current owners have abandoned them because they see no future in the relationship. Ian Saxcoburg has made it possible for you to turn the old girl into quite the looker with his modular kit.
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The Return of the Cafe Racers
"And now for something completely different" Just when I thought I'd seen every type of custom motorcycle there is, along comes this whacked out ride from Mermaid Mototorcycles of Milan. Cafe Racer? Tracker?giornata all'insegna del motociclismo classico dove le icone intramontabili su due ruote saranno le protagoniste assolute. Avrete la possibilità di fare una giro di 60 km tra curve e tornanti fantastici, partecipare al Contest che porterà i vincitori sulle pagine di www.caferacerculture.net e www.ruoterugginose.blogspot.co m , fare acquisti al mercatino ma sopratutto divertirvi in compagnia di tanti appassionati come te !
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