Topic: cafe bikes are getting popular and the "hipster"word is getting thrown around

[The_Crippler]

PBR to drink  ? whats that ?

Man, my watering hole used to be a great place.  Owned by a rugby club so that they have a place to drink, it's small, dark, smokey, great food, cheap prices - kick back with the boys all night, and you might be out $40.  One night, I walked in, and everybody in the place looked like the guys from Flight of the Concords, and ever beer down the bar was PBR.

Now they do 80s nights and crap.  *sigh*

[Damfino]

Yeah, I was watching the PBR on the telly the other night, that Renato Nunes is kicking everybody's butts...

[Duke McDukiedook]

Tell the club the hipsters plan on instituting rules to USA rugby that require pads and helmets if they don't kick their asses out.

That should put some fire under their bums to give the 86 to those hipsters!!!  

[brycegp]

the fact that "hipsters" are catching on to cafe's "cool factor" and now riding cafe's instead of vespas...WHO GIVES A F$%K?   

Some of us could use a a couple "cool points" on the score board anyway.  People entrenched in a culture have been calling newbies to that culture "posers" since the beginning of time.

Get off your high horse and welcome your new brothers for as a long as they may be around...what's it hurting?  Prices??  Well take advantage and start selling off that barn full of parts you've been hoarding and use the cash to buy a Davida "Crash" helmet, RayBan "retro" riding goggles, some expensive tattoos and a pair of designer riding boots...maybe you'll score some chicks with that badass Cafe you spent two years building.

just my rant for the day...   

Happy riding!!!

[noahspop]

I always knew that motorcycles were in my blood. My mom told me stories of her and my dad riding cross country on my dad’s trike while she was pregnant with me.

Growing up I've tried to avoid my destiny. I got into skateboards at the age of 12 and never looked back, even through all the cool and un-cool stages. (Sound familiar)

I got my bike because in my town there are three main roads that will get you from one side of town to the next. To do so, you have to cross the railroad tracks. I knew pretty soon that the city was going to tear down the road that gets the most traffic, and make the road go under the train tracks, because of emergency vehicles.

I live in the North and work in the South, and go to school after work in the North. So I bought my bike to shave some time off of my commute, and to pursue my destiny...

I was always the kid that wore corduroy when every one was wearing bugle boy pants, then when I got my bugle boy pants everyone was wearing Levis, and when I got my Levis every one was wearing draw string stussy pants with funky colors, so I said screw that and started skating. Of course I was a year behind on that fad too. Oh well, there are bigger problems in the world.

[seanbarney41]

I guess it's up to us to nip this threat to Cafe society in the bud!  I propose that we, the current cafe racers, do everything in our power to make cafe racing uncool.  I need a paint job and I'm gonna start by painting my bike hot pink.  Any graphics will be of Dungeons and Dragons characters.  Also, if anyone sees me riding my cafe, i will crash it on purpose just to show how uncool I am.  (low siding at slow to mid speeds can also be fun and painless!)  I am putting on a yellow rubber raincoat, shorts, and rubber galoshes to go riding as I type this.   Were to?  Nope, not the cafe or bar to sip a cold one or Cafe Latte on the patio while looking at my totally hip bike as I ignore the international beauties that are giving me the eye.   I think I'll go bird watching.

[Gordon]

I guess it's up to us to nip this threat to Cafe society in the bud!  I propose that we, the current cafe racers, do everything in our power to make cafe racing uncool.  I need a paint job and I'm gonna start by painting my bike hot pink.  Any graphics will be of Dungeons and Dragons characters.  Also, if anyone sees me riding my cafe, i will crash it on purpose just to show how uncool I am.  (low siding at slow to mid speeds can also be fun and painless!)  I am putting on a yellow rubber raincoat, shorts, and rubber galoshes to go riding as I type this.   Were to?  Nope, not the cafe or bar to sip a cold one or Cafe Latte on the patio while looking at my totally hip bike as I ignore the international beauties that are giving me the eye.   I think I'll go bird watching.

You sound like the ultra-hipster.

In fact, they may just worship you as their god if you do that.

[bikerbart]

 

[cb750dude]

cafe racer/punks/rockers
WE WILL NOT CONFORM!!
The fad will pass and the garage grease monkey punk rockers cafe racers will continue doing what we love.
And if I see some fag that got his cafe racer shirt from walmart Ill just punch em in the head

[oldhondarider]

Yeah, I was watching the PBR on the telly the other night, that Renato Nunes is kicking everybody's butts...

.
HA!!!!!!!

[smpls70]

http://www.latfh.com/

[FunJimmy]

As far as I can tell, the cafe thing is done as ar as being hip or popular. Bobbers are the new "it" bike, wait till summer...

Maybe I'll wait a bit longer till the Rat Bike craze comes on strong, then I can take a mallet and flat black spray bomb to my bike for a quick make over.

[The_Crippler]

Maybe I'll wait a bit longer till the Rat Bike craze comes on strong, then I can take a mallet and flat black spray bomb to my bike for a quick make over.

You do, and I will see you tried for war crimes.

[Duke McDukiedook]

As far as I can tell, the cafe thing is done as ar as being hip or popular. Bobbers are the new "it" bike, wait till summer...

Maybe I'll wait a bit longer till the Rat Bike craze comes on strong, then I can take a mallet and flat black spray bomb to my bike for a quick make over.

Amen, grease and oil must cake every surface too. 

[seaweb11]

My hipster friend dropped by the other day with his new ride.

Think it will catch on?

[ev0lve]

my gear is old because I am too poor to buy new stuff.

If anything it should level out in a few years when these people are tired of maintaining their bikes and theyre back on the market for really cheap.

Here here and... I'm afraid those days are over - at least for these models. Look at the xs650's. Around here they're going for 2 - 3000 even for the early 80's models. That's ridiculous.

I'm probably just bitter though  

For reference, here a Moto Guzzi - 5700 miles - $5000
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2039501868.html


Not really a comparison, just that this model isn't as poopular at the moment as the 70's bikes and pretty reasonably priced for what it is.

[FunJimmy]

Here here and... I'm afraid those days are over - at least for these models. Look at the xs650's. Around here they're going for 2 - 3000 even for the early 80's models. That's ridiculous.

I'm probably just bitter though  

For reference, here a Moto Guzzi - 5700 miles - $5000
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2039501868.html


Not really a comparison, just that this model isn't as poopular at the moment as the 70's bikes and pretty reasonably priced for what it is.

Smokin deal!
You should grab it Iggy.
Before someone else does.  

See ay at the IMS in Seattle Dec. 12th.?

[Speed King]

cafe racer/punks/rockers
WE WILL NOT CONFORM!!
The fad will pass and the garage grease monkey punk rockers cafe racers will continue doing what we love.
And if I see some fag that got his cafe racer shirt from walmart Ill just punch em in the head

Hahahaa-You guys are hilarious. Seriously though, anyone who builds/modifies a vintage bike and tries to ride it on a regular basis knows the commitment it takes- it's not for everyone. The real stuff owned & ridden by the real enthusiasts will always stand out on their own. A few of the newbies may be enlightened and convert, the rest will have fire sales and we'll get good deals on their stuff.

[demon78]

Sorry girl's I was a hipster in the late 50's and the next few manifestations that came along were pale imitations particularly the last bunch, just wannabes because they don't have the brights to think for themselves, which also seems to be norm now days, God I hate the hive mentality. I could rant for days on that subject.
Bill the demon.

[ev0lve]

Here here and... I'm afraid those days are over - at least for these models. Look at the xs650's. Around here they're going for 2 - 3000 even for the early 80's models. That's ridiculous.

I'm probably just bitter though  

For reference, here a Moto Guzzi - 5700 miles - $5000
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/2039501868.html


Not really a comparison, just that this model isn't as poopular at the moment as the 70's bikes and pretty reasonably priced for what it is.

Smokin deal!
You should grab it Iggy.
Before someone else does.  

See ay at the IMS in Seattle Dec. 12th.?

If I had $5000 I'dve been riding it yesterday 

[brycegp]

just watched a couple Eps of Cafe Racer on HD Theatre last night.  And while I really dug the Dime City bike with the front mounted shock for the rear suspension.  The rest of the show was at little all over the place.

I was happy to see Yoshi make an appearance...he's helped me find lots of parts on my maiden build.  Nice guy...

Over all it was entertaining...and it did express elements of the culture...making something beautiful out of something ugly...making something fast out of something broken...making one-thing out of parts of many things...making parts when parts can't be found...and doing it all with minimal tools and minimal $$$...

But the one thing that turned me off...the fact that the style the old rockers had back in the day.  ...has become something that I now liken to "Ed Hardey"...or worse "Von Dutch"...a highly stylized (and commercialized) "peacock" look that just seems cliche these days.  I don't know what style should go with Cafe Racers....if any official style should be assigned at all...but when i see a guy on a sweet cafe with his Davida/Big goggles combo, black bomber jacket with patches out the wazoo, and a whites scarf like he just stepped out of his "red baron" WWI fighter plane...i think "we need a new style".

I could walk into some raggy-chic store on Melrose and come out looking like an old schooler from the 50's...its been commercialized...off the rack.  That damage has been done.  Instead of fighting off the posers, I say move on to the next cool thing and stay one step ahead...instead of fighting for some used up piece of real estate.

Keep the bikes, of course. 

[Duke McDukiedook]

I gave up a long time ago on giving two #$%*s about what other people are doing or what they think about me.

'Tards are 'tards, not much I can do about them. 

[FrankenFrankenstuff]

I get nervous around hot girls. Guess I care what they think of me.

[coneeng]

The upside of the fad can be how far prices crash when the fad is over.  Bad for anyone that spent a fortune on a bike or hoarded parts at the top but usually up can pick up some really expensive builds for very cheap later on.  Since the fad-sters were the ones paying top dollar I don't mind buying it cheap and letting the eat the difference.  Plus in the meantime some really nice builders are finely able to make some money - before the hacks get into building!

[brycegp]

before the hacks get into building!

Aren't "hacks" exactly who started this movement??  the Professional builders are the ones that jumped on the bandwagon seeing potential for profits.

Hacks started doing this in garages with little to no resources.  And now you have professional builders (doing great work, no doubt) charging professional labor / material prices...and selling to dudes who have no intention of doing the work themselves.

I am definitely more impressed by a garage built masterpiece...than I am by one of these emerging Cafe Shops.  Don't get me wrong...I love their bikes.  But up to $25-30k for a Carpy original makes think..."ITS A F%(&ING CB750 FOOL!!  NO HONDA IS WORTH THAT!!"