I’ve been looking at a number of vintage bikes, and some cafe racer bikers. Going to save these for reference, and what about each one I really like. It will be interesting to come back to these articles once I finally finish the bike and see what I was thinking.

Bike 1 – Honda twin

Elements I like about this Honda.
• black painted forks
• cool custom high routed exhaust. The wrapping adds a nice effect
• chopped off tail
• stripped off fenders, front and rear
• it’s also a parallel twin

Bike 2 – Honda twin

Elements I like about this Honda.
• black paint with gold pinstripe
• chrome megaphone exhaust in polished stainless looks cool
• short bars
• it still has the fenders but they are minimalist and painted.
• nice steel braided oil cooler lines
• painted branding (no cast emblems)

Bike 3 – Honda CR550F

Elements I like about this Honda.
• red and yellow paint, with black side panels is a nice look.
• black painted exhaust might be easier to achieve than fixing the pitted stock chrome system
• again, the bobbed tail

Bike 4 – Honda (looks like an old Silverwing)

Elements I like about this Honda.
• I was originally considering silver paint for the bike, not sure about the blue stripe.
• like idea of the painted frame
• one thing that I really liked is the flat metal cover below the seat, instead of the stock curved piece.

Bike 5 – Norton

Elements I like about this Norton.
• gloss black paint, and stripe.
• rubber boots on the forks
• silver painted forks (I think)
• color matched hub on the rear brake

Bike 6 – Norton

Elements I like about this Norton.
• nice custom job
• modern front inverted forks and brakes
• cool high-mount megaphone exhaust
• also looks like a mono-shock rear end, very trick.

Bike 7 – Honda (I think its an old XR400)

Not really relevant to my current project but.. cool idea!
• looks like a dirtbike single converted to a street cafe racer
• cool chopped rear end

Bike 09 – Kawasaki, maybe?

what’s cool
• paint, love the flat olive retro-vintage WWII paint scheme
• site exit mega-can exhaust, in black
• top mounted bars (no clipons) but sort of inverted looking!
• front still has fender, not so sure about that..
• rubber boots on forks

Bike 9

what’s cool
• flat black paint. I can do that right now.
• know official name for those bars, ‘clubmans’ it would be the place to start!