Posts tagged ‘cafe racer’

Basty`s machines

By The Zor, 24 August, 2010, No Comment

Basty Bikes – a true custom workshop from choppers and bobbers to café racers. The Ducati Café Racer and a custom made power hammer was all it took to spend hours surfing Basty`s site and blog. The credit for finding it goes to my better half, H.

I discovered that he already had a little part of fame with the motorcycle called Rising hand built around a Dnepr 650 cc engine. It came 3^rd in show at 16^th Padua Bike expo show, prize which made his bike fly to the famous Rats Hole Custom Bike show at Daytona Bike Week. Interesting details on the motorcycle, especially the seat which looks like a corset. More pictures on Basty`s site, here.

Back to the Ducati Café Racer, I prepared an interview with Basty about this bike, due to be posted the following days.

This time all pictures are owned by Basty, so this time please ignore my Creative Commons License. He is the owner, so ask him before using them.

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In racing anything goes

By The Zor, 5 August, 2010, No Comment

… even a moped café racer.

To be continued with a bike porn picture.

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Weekend warrior tales

By The Zor, 27 July, 2010, No Comment

Down shifting a few gears the speed of this weekend was more that of a bicycle then of a motorcycle. It was thinking about changing the title from “Weekend warrior tales” to something mellow and peaceful, apparently the weekends have nothing to do with the war like atmosphere of a race.

What did others do during this week end? Well… Deus ex had a Bicycle swap meet, the fifth, and judging by the pictures posted on their site it was great.

The latest work from Imperial Cycles surfaced on Facebook. There is no better way to describe the work then the builders own words: “ Black powdercoated Shorty Fatz/ Imperial frame, custom orange marine vinyl seat, custom boardtracker gas tank orange/ gold color, all black powder coated triple tree forks, front disk brakes, extra wide 3-piece crank, black aluminum mag wheels , 2.25″ thick wheel s in rear and 1.5″ thick wheel in the front, black oury grips. A true beauty to look and to ride.”

Loïc added a stretch to his ride report about Ethiopia.

At the LA Calendar Show this bike by Chris Fletcher of Speed Shop Design was presented, who by the way have some great bicycles in the portfolio, only if their site would work properly. Back to the motorcycle presented at the Long Beach show – the Beezerker, built around a 1965 BSA A65 motor, is so minimal that it hurts. The picture is from Metal Head Fabrication`s blog. Their motorcycle is also a blast, I love the new trend of cross tires on bobbers, choppers and café racers.

A friend from London started a blog about gadgets. His description about the blog is full of heavy words and honestly I don’t understand a fuck. Although I disagree with his opinion about fixed gear bicycles expect in the future to see some collaboration. I have a few gadgets to add to his list. The blog is called Gravity One and can be found here.

To end this week-end report I have nothing more than a picture with Paul Newman performing his own bicycle tricks after it turned out that his stand-in stuntman for the film could not ride a bike in George Roy Hill’s 1969 epic Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Picture from The Selvedge Yard.

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Weekend warrior tales

By The Zor, 21 June, 2010, No Comment

Ride the word reached Egypt after some problems at the border. Their story here.

Friend Remus G. got the 4th place at the Supermoto race this week end.

Actually he is not Mr R, just a mini rider

He is Mr R before ending in the 4th place, the KTM Cafe racer project has to wait.

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Ritmo Sereno

By The Zor, 7 February, 2010, No Comment

I really wanted to show this motorcycle garage from Tokyo, Japan. They do a great job building cafe racers from BMW but I stopped at this Moto Guzzi. I is a lovely bike. Unfortunately my Photosho CS3 gave up on me so I can`t post pictures with my usual frame ans size.

For more pictures visit Ritmo Sereno`s site here.

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KTM 560 SMR Cafe Racer

By The Zor, 24 December, 2009, 1 Comment

Back in the summer, while driving home from a supermoto race, and being pissed off by the result because somebody forgot to pack the wet condition tires I was thinking to turn the KTM 560 SMR into a café racer. My intention was to use an old fuel tank which was sitting on a shelf in the garage and to modify the rear end of the SMR. My intention was to build a new rear end from scratch and to use a Megaton muffler instead of the old Akrapovitch ready to race kit.

I never started the project because the SMR had to run a few more races but a photoshoped a picture with the bike as I imagined it. The rear end is going to be built first in 3d using a CAD software.

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Today surfing the net I found Roland Sand’s take on transforming the KTM 560 SMR into a café racer. I have to admit that he has done it in a fever steps and it looks classy with an original take on replacing the side covers from the fuel tank. I could not help myself not to write a thought about his bike.

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The SMR 560 has to run the 2010 season and after that it is mine to be chopped into a café racer.

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Honda XL `78

By The Zor, 15 December, 2009, No Comment

Moving the content of the site from indexhibit to this blog structure I forgot to transfer some content about my latest work. During this summer in an enduro trip, I found a Hondal XL 125 from around `78. It was in a very bed shape but the engine was working. I thought it is going to be a nice re-building project. I started with a complete disassembly of the motorcycle. Next came the cleaning, sand blasting and repainting of the frame, fender and fuel tank. Next on the work bench is going to be the engine if only I find some spare parts on eBay.

I still don`t know if it is going to be an accurate rebuild or a cafe racer.

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