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

Can someone explain to me how the exhaust works? I don't see an opening on there.. :|
 
Speaking of which... I've never understood why the vrod engine is so fucking huge. The Buell 1125 engine, with almost identical displacement (5ccs is nothing), is WAY smaller - right?
 
Junkie said:
just like a normal Supertrapp - it exits radially from the discs.
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uhhhh what?:blush

I looked it up on youtube and I don't understand why these exhausts are designed this way... :|
 
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My wife's RS125R 2-stroke bike has a beefier swingarm than that ...

Really. I'm not lying. :laughing
 
russ69 said:
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.
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Ok Russ, I get it, you're old.
 
AkatomboRR said:
uhhhh what?:blush

I looked it up on youtube and I don't understand why these exhausts are designed this way... :|
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It's a variable design where you can add/subtract plates to decrease/increase back pressure/flow.
 
Rob said:
It's a variable design where you can add/subtract plates to decrease/increase back pressure/flow.
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Well, Yes and No. The exhaust on that bike is stupid bad application of the SuperTrapp, disks/end cap.

The pipe it's self needs to increase in diameter towards the end, and larger diameter disks be used, and way more of them, and...with enough disks to disassemble the sound wave (like a silencer on a gun) capping off the stack of disks with an open end cap.

This will all be small-ish..on individual pipes...but...not Butt Plug small.

The guy that put that bike together...made huge mistakes. If all that is important to a viewer is a look...that is because the viewer doesn't know squat about how things work.
 
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Gabe said:
Subscribe to the Bike Exif email...great blog.
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I love the Exif subscription, shows up on the phone just in time to enjoy with my 1:30p break at work.:thumbup:thumbup

When it happens to be something special I forward it to the three moto junkies sitting next to me and discuss.
 
Is this the air intake?
Directly behind the non-fender front tire?

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Sure looks like it...Wow, that guy doesn't know squat about air flow..good chance a stock V-Rod would make him look very silly.
 
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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use the VROD engine is all they did. They did not take a 700lb VROD and cafe it, they just took the engine and placed it into a cafe-ish frame.

On a side note, you may want to descend from your high horse regarding the "purity" of cafe racing, unless you are a transplanted Brit.
 
AOW said:
On a side note, you may want to descend from your high horse regarding the "purity" of cafe racing, unless you are a transplanted Brit.
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I'm a Griffith Park Backside Slider, the closest thing to the cafe scene we had in the USA. We saw plenty of British cafe bikes, Dunstall Hondas, Vincents, big singles, Rickmans, Seeleys, Beezers, Velocettes, Trumpets, even the local Norton dealer had a brand new Dunstall Norton in the showroom.
Anyway, I'm just pointing out the difference between a real cafe bike and cafe "style" bike, they are not the same thing. That V-rod is a bobber with clip-ons, not even close, sorry.

P.S. We didn't have as many old beat-up left over Brit bikes for the kids to ride like they had in England, we were moving forward with the faster Japanese bikes. The guy that taught me the ropes at "The Park" rode a Norton but it was not fast enough to stay with the newer bikes at the time. The Brit bikes were dieing a rather quick death from about 1967. This is from my perspective at the time, YMMV.
 
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