Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

StMarks wrote:

Godzilla wrote: Jeeeez . Hate choppers sorry.

LOL, don't be sorry for that mate. I was a little inspired by Cat3's ongoing thread on TDR ( if you know the one I mean.? )

Appreciate the idea though. No sorry, not seen that thread. Don't venture over there much any more.

I'd say bin the café racer idea (because I personally hate the look) and build a hi spec street bike or a more modern necked. Custom frame and bolt together some decent spec second hand bits that you can spend some time polishing and tarting up. Plenty of time can go into frame and geometry research and you can have your own bike built from the ground up. The big expense would be the custom frame but you could go down the route of a couple of donor bikes for bits and break what you don't need.

Along these lines: http://www.giaengineering.co.uk/custom- ... builds.php

Godzilla wrote: Appreciate the idea though. No sorry, not seen that thread. Don't venture over there much any more.

Only sorry I was so far off message mate. Be interesting to see what you choose, if you decide to take something on.

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StMarks wrote:

Godzilla wrote: Appreciate the idea though. No sorry, not seen that thread. Don't venture over there much any more.

Only sorry I was so far off message mate. Be interesting to see what you choose, if you decide to take something on.

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Sorry, yes I saw that, thought you had mentioned 675. My bad.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-500-4-E ... 4ad3e2ceb5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; just down the road as well

Cheers, I didnt realise pieces of junk cost so much lol. (And I dont mean just that one lol)

One of the drivers came in tonight telling me his neighbour is selling what looks a GPX 600 cheap, wants shut of it to get a bit of garage space back

Stew wrote:One of the drivers came in tonight telling me his neighbour is selling what looks a GPX 600 cheap, wants shut of it to get a bit of garage space back

Oh be interested to know how much. Could end up like this:

Still prefer this:

Ive got the owners number if you want to give him a ring, I dont know the owner just the lad I work with, he showed me a photo of it last night it looked quite clean, it's E reg and he live's in Newton le willows nr St Helen's, pm me if you want his no.

I think about this a lot , it's one of my future jobs. I can't help thinking that I'm so bored of seeing Honda 500s etc being tarted up and messed about with. Now and again something gets created that is nicely done with some real engineering, but without lots of time and skill it's probably beyond most people to do.

I think if I was to pick, right now, and have to go out and buy one - I'd pick a moto guzzi. It's a little different. Unusual even. And it still retains a touch of individuality.

Those are the reasons I fancy the BMW boxer.

I have alo thought about a Guzzi

I don't mean to offend anyone currently tinkering with a bike like I mentioned....... It's just my opinion........

As you say though! Everyone is at it. Junk is really expensive now!

How about a Duke 900ss?

Nice bike Monty

One day when I have the time and space I really fancy doing something like this

Best Bikes to turn into cafe racers are v-twins, boxer twins, parallel twins and triples, IMHO .

So anything that hasn't got 4 cylinders basically

Yep. I don't think they translate well to cafe racers.

Doing this properly is never going to be cheap though. I reckon you would need to budget £3-4k as a minimum if you want something decent and worth riding.

Fwiw I always felt that the CX500 would make a good project base, & I would expect they are cheap.?