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Gentlemen --- Start your engines
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27-03-17, 11:06 AM
Done about 120 miles, Hertfordshire and Essex, along the a507 ending up at finchingfield loads of bikes out
the night i was born, lord the moon stood a fire red., my poor mother her crying,
she said the gypsy was right, and she fell right dead 
27-03-17, 10:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-03-17, 10:40 PM by tommyardin.)
Had a squirt around this afternoon and popped into Loomies for a mug of tea, and this BMW came into the car park while I was there, Cafe Racer, going up for sale in about 3 weeks, the owner wants £8K for it so I did not ask for his details. :eek
I think he said it was a 1978 model, notice single front disk and drum back brake, the body work is a paint dip and not carbon fibre, but looks really lifelike, very very clean, but a shed load of dosh, he said it handles very very well but the chicken strips on the back cover tells a different story. 
27-03-17, 10:55 PM
Arf of its missing
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
28-03-17, 12:22 AM
Where do these nut-jobs get their price expectations from !
I know, I know, "Hipsters" with more money than sense and who are too young to have been around when real cafe racers we're all the rage. These new faux cafe racers seem to go for looks and image rather than function, ignoring that the original cafe racers were bikes modified for better performance, not just "style". 
28-03-17, 01:02 AM
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.
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.
28-03-17, 05:15 PM
Yes, the weather, at last. Blew some of those cobwebs away myself on Sunday. A nice 60 mile round trek Rye, New Romney, Hastings. However, remember to stay safe guys and gals. On the route I took on Sunday, later on in the day there were two serious motorcycle accidents
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