Saw this posted on motorcycle.com in response to a thread about Carpy's bikes and the poster who stated "Somebody explain to me what's with cafe racer's? I just don't get it."
http://news.motorcycle.com/comments.motml?op=showreply&tid=164321&sid=4779&pid=164317&mode=&order=&thold=#164321A reading from the Book of Velocity (Score: 2, Humorous)
By schizuki on Thursday, April 26 2007 @ 13:00:49 EDT
In the Beginning, young men of iron on both sides of the Ocean didst strip their motorcycles of useless weight and worldly encumbrances, leaving only the Essence of the machine, which was Good, and in doing so gave their mounts the grace of Handling; they didst then perform the Holy Rites of Porting, and Polishing, and all other manner of Massaging unto the engine, and in doing so gave their mounts the grace of Speed; and they didst cavort upon the straight roads of America as Bobbers and the winding lanes of Britain as Cafe Racers, brothers in spirit. But thence came the Great Schism, when the two like tribes diverged, and the Bobbers did take the Road to Cruiserdom, and the Cafe Racers did ride to Sportbikedom, and they did pollute the lands along their paths with their abominable spawn of Choppers and Stuntaz and like manner of unholy douchebaggery. Amen.
