28-03-17, 08:15 AM
(28-03-17, 01:02 AM)vinnyb link Wrote: The problem is they're butchering classics to do it, original unmolested R100RSs and the like will be unfindable before long. It make you piss when they 'café race' CD200 Benlys and the like though and put them on Ebay for £2k. Clip ons on a single seat don't make a dog slow, poor handling bike into a racer.Exactly. There was, maybe still is, a US series on tv called Cafe Racers that I followed for a while as it sometimes featured a pal of mine, where they'd cafe race various suitable bikes. But when the ideas started to dry up and they'd start putting clip ons and a 5 gallon tank on a CX500, you just think why, what's the point.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.