After drooling over hundreds of bikes on this and other forums, this is the bike I would most like to use as a reference for my ultimate cafe project.
I mostly play with Hondas and they're cool, but I think a great cafe bike starts with a classic english bike and good looking motor. Then add a cleaned up frame, delete anything and everything possible for that ultra clean look, and finish with formed aluminum pieces.
The above bike is a project by a Norton specialist out of Colorado.