Topic: Story on Cafe Racers

[72 yellow]

For those of us that live in the Detroit metro area there is a large article in the current issue of the Metro Times about the rising popularity of cafe racer style motorcycles.  It mentions how popular the CB750 is.  Not a bad read.

On the way down Eureka Road in Southgate to pick up my copy, I saw a really nice cafe CB750 turning in on Howard Street.  Don't know if it was a forum member or not.

[Bob Wessner]

Here's a link for anyone interested..

http://metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=14227

[Duke McDukiedook]

Great, now every hipster dork is gonna want to buy a Honda and drive up the prices for the rest of us.

[Caaveman82]

Great, now every hipster dork is gonna want to buy a Honda and drive up the prices for the rest of us.

+1

Douche bags.

[DaytonGuy]

I was browsing through this month's American Iron and there is a writeup on an HD cafe.....don't see those very often.

[Duke McDukiedook]

For good reason.

[Blasbo]

For good reason.

  I give up. What's the reason? 
My boss has one of the mid 70s AMF Harleys. Looks like a cafe to me.

[MCRider]

For good reason.

  I give up. What's the reason? 
My boss has one of the mid 70s AMF Harleys. Looks like a cafe to me.

You don't see very many because... the AMF Harleys were not known for hanging together. And just like our CB750 in the 1970s, they tended to get modified into awful things.

And they didn't sell very many, as most of the factory cafes from that era missed the mark and didn't sell well, even the jap stuff.

As far as looking like a cafe, that's as far as that went as well. Performance was lacking.

I am the epitome of understatement.   

[Blasbo]

Gotcha!
Around here we don't see much beside V twin cruisers, sport bikes and goldwings.