That's what I was thinking. I thought it would be kind of easy to do and would be fun to play with.
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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
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
I would love to see a Cafe CJ... Wonder how well it would corner? :riding:
CC
what is cafe racer?is that a kind of sidecar?:confused1:
Hi CK,
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.