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!