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Supercharged NOS Honda Gold Wing GL1200 Cafe

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Older Honda Gold Wings have a pretty devoted following and sometimes their owners just keep tinkering as they try to get their ride to match that idea they have in mind. Phillip Sanford is one of those guys, he has a 1984 Honda Gold Wing GL1200 that has been modified into a cafe racer of sorts with lots of additions, custom made pieces and parts swaps and he may still not be … [Read more...]

Unity Equipe Manx Norton Spares and More

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With our recent articles on VD Classic and Moto Paton and other cafe racer variations, it's nice to see a spares company like Unity Equipe. Bob Horn left a comment pointing to this English company where you can get your fix of all of the necessary parts to get your Manx Norton project in gear. Complete frames, swingarms, forks, and hundreds of bits and pieces to make up a … [Read more...]

Moto Paton 500cc Racer Continuation

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Giuseppe Pattoni built a few race bikes back in the early 1960s. They were parallel twin 4 strokes beginning at 250cc and eventually growing to 500cc. To say production was limited is an understatement, only 10 bikes were built over 10 years. Between 1966 and 1975, the bikes raced over 150 times to some success and whatever the case, they looked great! Roberto Pattoni, … [Read more...]

VD Classic Cafe Racers

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Jean Francois Vicente, of VD Classic in Strasbourg, France, began modifying motorcycles over 20 years ago and over the years started creating a few accessories of his own for various models from Triumph, Ducati, Voxan, MZ and many more. The results he achieves are really great looking bikes in the cafe tradition, classic lines, subtle and clean. This is the kind of modification … [Read more...]

Munch Mammut Replicas by Mike Kron

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Mike Kron, The Classic Bike Mike, has a business over in Germany restoring motorcycles for museums and private collectors in Germany, Switzerland and here in the USA. He also builds replicas of old German motorcycles and he's done some extraordinary work, re-creating Munch Mammuts. Friedel Münch hand built these motorcycles back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, using a 4 … [Read more...]

Sesco Air and Oil Cooled Suzuki V8 Engines

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There was another Suzuki based V8 engine done quite a few years before the, now well known, Hayabusa V8, it's the Sesco Suzuki V8. Actually, we could also call it a Kawasaki V8 or a Yamaha V8, because it could be any of those, too. When I was talking to Greg Nelson of Nelson Engineering about his V-Quad engine, we also talked a bit about the V8. Greg used to race circle … [Read more...]