Comments on: Cafe Racer the Motorcycle – Book Review

By: Gaston

Gaston — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:47:39 +0000

I love a Cafe racer because it is more fun riding a slow bike fast than a some highly strung modern rocket fast. Fun is the key word. Every motorcycle review should have a fun rating and the bike be totally judged to be worthy or not by this rating. Also Cafe racers are partially custom machines that hold my interest much more than the massed produced computer designed soulless “things”.

By: Skizick

Skizick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:36:55 +0000

I only wish the Cafe’ers would realize what a poor venue public highways are. As EMT’s we constantly scoop up wantabee Rossi’s that didn’t plan on that Winabago stopped to take a picture of a squirrel. No one is there to wave the red flag befor the hazzard is upon them. There’s old ones and bold ones, but no old bold ones goes the addage.

By: coho

coho — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:27:10 +0000

I’ve been leaning toward a cafe style for the TW200 I’m currently shopping for, can’t wait for the REDZ TW catalog.

I’ve been looking at a lot of cafe bikes lately (research, you know) and it seems to me that they were very much the streetfighters of the day (lighter/faster/lighter/faster), but since fully faired from the factory wasn’t an option back in the day, it was unnecessary to first crash off the plastic. Handy.

By: dennon

dennon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:17:11 +0000

I hate to break it to you Clive but even Royal Enfields are fuel injected now.

This shouldn’t stop us though, a small displacement bike that is light and good handling is way more fun on real roads than the supersport bikes in my opinion. You are also less likely to hit a tree at a ridiculous speed or lose your license as well.

By: Clive Makinson-Sanders

Clive Makinson-Sanders — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:15:00 +0000

Qrazy, my brother has a 75 cb360t thats begging me to tear it apart. He doesnt ride or tinker with it, but he refuses to sell it to me. What a waste.