Cafe Racer Thread

[Jeff Higgins]

Lawrence of Arabia lives...

[Bill Douglas]

Oh Guys. Wow, keep up the good work.

These bikes are rolling works of art. I take my hat off to you (and that's not the pinot noir speaking). I particuarly like the Moto Guzzis.

[porsche4life]

Drool......

[dlockhart]

New British-Built Nortons Reach U.S. Dealers

[dlockhart]

[Jeff Higgins]

Now that was a cool video.

So, does anyone know how the Thruxton holds up as a track bike or race bike? The "other" pushrod twins of similar heritage/pedigree - the Sportsters and their offshoots, the Buells, have a horrible reputation in this regard.

[Dueller]

Beautifully made short vid

from Tom Salt on Vimeo.

[Rob T.]

Very nice. More pics please....

Originally Posted by enzo1

[dlockhart]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Now that was a cool video.

So, does anyone know how the Thruxton holds up as a track bike or race bike? The "other" pushrod twins of similar heritage/pedigree - the Sportsters and their offshoots, the Buells, have a horrible reputation in this regard.

The shop that is sponsoring me ( on a Triumph 675 ) also sponsors a rider on a AHRMA thruxton . They had no issues all season, and won at Road America. I looked up the lap times from that Barber race and they are not fast bikes. Disalvo was barely into the :41s A friend of mine was the guy who got third and he is a fast Expert club racer and he and the rest of the podium and near podiums were in the 44s

A good bit faster than a Ninja 250 and a good bit slower than a SV650.

[exc911ence]

And speaking of Thruxtons, here's mine!

[dlockhart]

Nice. I'm really thinking about picking one up and building it like the Norton. A ebay front end off any modern sport bike and lace up a 5.50 rear wheel and maybe a super moto 17" wheel on the front so I can run modern performance rubber.

Originally Posted by exc911ence

And speaking of Thruxtons, here's mine!

[epbrown]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Now that was a cool video.

I'm honestly curious how the host wears a helmet with dreadlocks. One of my cousins plans to get a Ninja next spring and he's got a huge mane of dreadlocks - I can't see him getting those under a helmet. Unfortunately, he's in KY where it's not required after 21 (he's 28), so he may decided the hair's more important than the brain underneath.

I'd love a Thruxton, but I'd go the Black Prince route:

[Dueller]

Back n track.....getting to my unfinished café project. Since the stroke sidelined me a bit, decided to change plans a bit. Residual coordination and balance isssues will not wok well with superlow clip on's and rearsets and I'm having to modify shifter to accommodate left ankle loss of motion.

Had to rebuild top end on font cylinder



Slowly going together in mock up phase

[yellowperil]

Nice little kid racer

[Bowling]

New Triumph twist.
2013 Triumph Tridays13 'new generation Speed Triple 1050' by Marcus Walz promotional video - YouTube

[Tanick]

Currently researching a future purchase of a Guzzi V7, found this nice video. There's also a good one about scrambling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvJVyXNZKc

[Dueller]

beginning to take shape

[Schumi]

Originally Posted by Dueller

beginning to take shape

Ditch the high bars, throw on a set of clip ons, get rid of the wind screen, and put a more modern, skinny seat and tail on it and some thing spoke lightweight wheels and you got a winner.


I had a friend with one of those, with a real hot 1200 in it that was putting out over 100HP. Scary-as-fkkkkkk to ride. Wheelie machine.

[Dueller]

Schumi, unfortuantely my recent health issues cause some physical limitations so clip-ons and rearset won't be happening as originally planned. Converting to spoked wheels too expensive of a conversion to justify on a biudget project like this one. I am going to smaller tank and seat as seen in this mock up:

[varmint]

had a 97 cyclone. never went more than 300 miles without a part falling off.

fun otherwise.