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How F-ing Cool is This? V-Rod Cafe!

The forks look like they're from a Ducati Monster...
 
No this doesn't work. For you guys that missed the Cafe fad, Cafe is about making a bike that is light and more like the racers of the day. V-rod is just total fail. Cafe is not about looking cool, it's about a racer for the street. Bare minimum. Retro fake, just sucks.
 
russ69 said:
No this doesn't work. For you guys that missed the Cafe fad, Cafe is about making a bike that is light and more like the racers of the day. V-rod is just total fail. Cafe is not about looking cool, it's about a racer for the street. Bare minimum. Retro fake, just sucks.
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Forgive me if I'm seeing how this bike is truly lighter and extremely minimum comapred to a stock V-Rod. :dunno

Thanks, Russ.
 
Kornholio said:
Forgive me if I'm seeing how this bike is truly lighter and extremely minimum comapred to a stock V-Rod. :dunno

Thanks, Russ.
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If you were to do a Cafe bike using a V-rod, you would have to do an VR1000 race bike with full fairing. You could use the V-rod engine but the goal is to make a racer for the street not a chopper/bobber with clip-ons. If you weren't around back then you might not get it. A Dunstall Norton or Honda was cool, a bobber Harley didn't work but a KR Harley would have been the bees knees. Cafe has gotten lost in the translation. Just like today, there were the racers and the wanna bees..........
 
russ69 said:
If you were to do a Cafe bike using a V-rod, you would have to do an VR1000 race bike with full fairing. You could use the V-rod engine but the goal is to make a racer for the street not a chopper/bobber with clip-ons. If you weren't around back then you might not get it. A Dunstall Norton or Honda was cool, a bobber Harley didn't work but a KR Harley would have been the bees knees. Cafe has gotten lost in the translation. Just like today, there were the racers and the wanna bees..........
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Last time I checked, making a cafe racer didn't have all these definitions. Shit, simply reading Cafe Racer magazine or watching the show on HDT doesn't make it appear that in depth either.
 
russ69 said:
If you were to do a Cafe bike using a V-rod, you would have to do an VR1000 race bike with full fairing. You could use the V-rod engine but the goal is to make a racer for the street not a chopper/bobber with clip-ons. If you weren't around back then you might not get it. A Dunstall Norton or Honda was cool, a bobber Harley didn't work but a KR Harley would have been the bees knees. Cafe has gotten lost in the translation. Just like today, there were the racers and the wanna bees..........
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I know what you mean... :thumbup
 
JO EBRMC said:
When they get around to putting a motor in it it might.
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No can do. You would snap that swingarm like a twig as soon as you took it out of neutral.
Kornholio said:
Last time I checked, making a cafe racer didn't have all these definitions. Shit, simply reading Cafe Racer magazine or watching the show on HDT doesn't make it appear that in depth either.
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But, cafe racers were serious street racers, originally. Because the "cool thing" has morphed into a poseur thing, doesn't change the origin nor intent of the concept.
 
Kornholio said:
...Shit, simply reading Cafe Racer magazine or watching the show on HDT doesn't make it appear that in depth either.
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Reading a magazine about Cafe bikes, is like watching a film about the Viet Nam war, if you weren't there, you wouldn't know anything about it. We were serious about our Cafe bikes. It wasn't about the Cafe style, it was about race bikes that were street legal (sort of). The Cafe scene, here in SoCal almost didn't exist. The 50s English bikes were way slower than our modern Jap bikes. So the old bikes really took a beating. It wasn't long before the Jap bikes dominated and the old British bikes were dead meat.
I totally dig the fact that new guys are making bikes that have the spirit of what we were doing back in the day. It is so cool. I love the bikes I am seeing. However if you want the real deal, you need to make a replica racer of the day and add a licence plate. A CB750 will work but the CX500 doesn't, it's too new and no race bike was ever made out of a CX500 (actually I knew the one guy that raced a CX500 back in the day). Anyway, for best results, make something that could have existed between, 1960 and 1974, get too far from that and it's not believable, although an earlier engine will work in some cases.
 
Sweet. The Caff's back in the day would give their nuts to ride that bike.
 
russ69 said:
No this doesn't work. For you guys that missed the Cafe fad, Cafe is about making a bike that is light and more like the racers of the day. V-rod is just total fail. Cafe is not about looking cool, it's about a racer for the street. Bare minimum. Retro fake, just sucks.
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Thank You Russ :thumbup
 
louemc said:
There are serious violations, in design, there.

In the steering head, and the exhaust, and the radiator placement.

Possibly the swing arm, as well, can't say not knowing the material and if it is solid rod or tubing.

Lucky they all work towards preventing the bike from going fast, so I guess it's a success.
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Given what they started from, it's a pretty accomplished feat. That said...

The gas tank needs to lift up a little. The footpegs are directly below the seat, giving ample room for a larger tank.

Regardless of the material, it just doesn't look right. Give me a thick swingarm that exudes the ability to handle the power that is being transferred from the body of the bike to the rear wheel. :burnout
 
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