Discussion
ram7577 said:
I thought the whole idea of a cafe racer was going as fast as possible at the time ergo a current cafe racer would be superbike.
To an extent. It was at a time where there were definate 'scenes'. The rockers rode caff racers and scrapped with Mods (the scooerists), so they slowly exaggerated the look to make sure everyone knew they were rockers.
Rockers added the essentials of swept back pipes, clip ons, rear sets, often a fly screen (all basically trying to immitate a Manx Norton style) and the Mods did the same, adding mirrors by the ton to make sure everyone knew they were Mods.
So caff racers were certainly about going fast, but there was also a very defined style of bike.
CBR JGWRR said:
What's a café racer with a full fairing called?
I'm considering rebuilding the CB into one.
A few caff racers were built in period with full fairings, but generally they weren't about in that era. Later ones (from the mid-late sixties) like the Velocette Thruxton (below) were available with a full fairing, and some aftermarket firms like Avon made fairings. I'm considering rebuilding the CB into one.
srob said:
A few caff racers were built in period with full fairings, but generally they weren't about in that era. Later ones (from the mid-late sixties) like the Velocette Thruxton (below) were available with a full fairing, and some aftermarket firms like Avon made fairings.
that isn't a cafe racer, it is a standard thruxton with a half fairingHere's one I had for a long time in a couple of iterations.
There isn't much difference between the two. The first was as bought, the second after Dave Degens had worked it over.
It is a '54 T100 engine in a '59 wideline frame.
I thought it was a bit of a bargain when I bought it as a box of bits: however it didn't run well after i'd put it back together, so I tore it apart again. It had no compression, two different sized carbs, and a Bonneville crank. The inside of the cases had lots of missing webs, so because of the Bonnie crank it had probably been raced and had a fairly serious engine failure at some point, resulting in the mangled webs.
That's when I realised I needed a professional Triumph man to work out what needed doing........
There isn't much difference between the two. The first was as bought, the second after Dave Degens had worked it over.
It is a '54 T100 engine in a '59 wideline frame.
I thought it was a bit of a bargain when I bought it as a box of bits: however it didn't run well after i'd put it back together, so I tore it apart again. It had no compression, two different sized carbs, and a Bonneville crank. The inside of the cases had lots of missing webs, so because of the Bonnie crank it had probably been raced and had a fairly serious engine failure at some point, resulting in the mangled webs.
That's when I realised I needed a professional Triumph man to work out what needed doing........
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