Hi,
I'm thinking about tracking down a heavily used plastic cj and ripping it to bits and making a 750cc Chinese cafe racer.
Has anyone done this before or thought about it before?
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Hi,
I'm thinking about tracking down a heavily used plastic cj and ripping it to bits and making a 750cc Chinese cafe racer.
Has anyone done this before or thought about it before?
According the purists, Cafe racers are 60s/70s bikes (brits, early four japs) so the CJ is a little bit old for that. Fork, rear suspension, frame and engine shape are different from the typical cafe racer style.
But you can always strip down one more in the line of the 40s/50s race bikes. Like many bikes, CJ looks better naked.
Brice
Brice, I'm interested in doing it to one of the swing arm CJs. You must know, the really ulgy ones that look like this
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...cj750/cj-3.jpg
Check www.cj750lm.com you might need to sign up to see the pictures and a working knowledge of Chinese to find the correct threads:biggrin:
Problem with doing a cafe and then riding it around is the fact that the bike would now no longer look like the bike in it's blue book registration picture.........a bit of a no no here. You need official permission to even paint a bike a different colour than the colour it was registered as.
If you live in the sticks..........anythings possible, if you know some cops even more so.
Got it the M15 made for the Police. You should find some inspiration by looking at the beemer cafe racers. The earl fork will have to be replaced if you go solo.
I'm aware of the problems with registering the bike. I'd be in the sticks and it'd only be a once in a while thing. The bike above is not my bike, just a bike I took a photo of. I would of course not use the Earl's forks.
Little 125cc bike would probably still be quicker:biggrin:
I've also thought about that. I've also been thinking of turing one of the X185 clones into a supermoto. But I think a Cafed CJ would look petty cool. I'm not too concened about going fast on the road in China.
Faster things are harder to hit :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Supersignet
Hi,
I've seen a couple done up here in Beijing. I'll try and find the pics. But if you start with an M5 bike or one of the swingarm police bikes and strip off all the plastic you get basically what you're looking for. Switch the seat and you're about there.
Regds,
Jim
www.mycj750.com
That's what I was thinking. I thought it would be kind of easy to do and would be fun to play with.
Here's some pics of a Xiang Jiang (police bike) with all the plastic stripped off. The frame is a near exact copy of a BMW /6 frame and the gas tank can pass as a BMW /7 tank.
Regds,
Jim
www.mycj750.com
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Originally Posted by Jimbosidecar
hmmmmmm.....looks not bad. The paint and pinstripes and seat on that bike aren't so nice....but it has potential:28:
I've got a custmer with a Guang Jun 750 who is re-patriating. He's looking to sellit. PM me if interested.
Regds,
Jim
www.mycj750.com
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Originally Posted by Supersignet
I would love to see a Cafe CJ... Wonder how well it would corner? :riding:
CC
Set it up with some decent springs and shocks....and provided the frame was straight.......not much worse than a 60's-'70-80's BMW.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrazyCarl
And tapered steering head bearings.
what is cafe racer?is that a kind of sidecar?:confused1:
Hi CK,Quote:
Originally Posted by ChinaKnight
A cafe racers history goes back to late 1950's Britain, it's a motorcycle that is somewhat modified that was raced from cafe (place where you get coffee like Starbucks but cooler) to cafe.........the contest was between racers to get from one coffee shop to another in the fastest time.
Here's the Wikipedia version:
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A Café racer, originally pronounced "caff" (as in Kaff) racer, is a type of motorcycle as well as a type of motorcyclist. Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s British counterculture group the Rockers or the Ton Up Club, although they were also common in Italy and Germany and other European countries.
Rockers were a young and rebellious Rock and Roll counterculture that wanted a fast, personalised and distinctive bike to travel between transport cafés along the newly built arterial motorways in and around British towns and cities. The goal of many was to be able to reach 100 miles per hour (called simply "the ton") along such a route where the rider would leave from a cafe, race to a predetermined point and back to the cafe before a single song could play on the jukebox, this was called record-racing. They are remembered as being especially fond of Rockabilly music and their image is now embedded in today's rockabilly culture.
A classic example of this was to race from the Ace Cafe on The North Circular road in NW London to the Hanger Lane junction as it then was - it is now the more famous Hanger Lane Gyratory System - and back again. The aim was to get back to the Ace Cafe before the record you'd put onto the jukebox had finished. Given that some of the Eddie Cochran tunes that were in vogue at this time were less than 2 minutes long, the racers would have had to traverse the three miles round trip at extremely high speed.
These are the modern day version of Cafe Racer rebels. In Southern California:lol8:
Now the real thing..........accents and all.
WOW! That's some serious modifications!!! What frame did they use?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChinaKnight
CC
Thanks nick
i like the second video,i'll introduce more moto-culture of foreign to xinjiang people,but i must learn enough from you first:riding:
CC，honestly,i don't konw,it is in guang xi,maybe they made it themselvesQuote:
Originally Posted by CrazyCarl