Is This A Bad Idea – BMW R80/7 Cafe Racer

I briefly had an ETZ 250, shoulda hung onto it and stuck some race parts on it. That R4 programme was pretty interesting. What a story!

I learnt on an MZ 125, bought for 30 quid. Broke down every time I rode it (diagnosed after I got rid of it as losing compression). Think my dad hoped it would put me off.

Look at the length of that gear linkage

no longer than many modern bikes, just more visible. My 05R1 isnt much shorter, but it passes through the frame and is less obvious.

not mine, courtesy of google, but note long rod from the back of footpeg

Yes I do know and am trying to ignore the idea of buying a basket case to do up as a road going racer style. My etz251 is one of the last proper E German ones and is on a K plate. Good Nick but when I get it to mine will be much better

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Saw this outside the pub recently.

Seen an HRD going through the traffic in Bolton a few times. Bit of a double take moment…

Look at the length of that gear linkage

That doesn’t work for me, sorry

Its a 450 Ducati! Although the only one I’ve been on was turned it an FF:

http://www.bikeweb.com/node/494

And thanks for the ‘Panther Owners Club’ cartoon – always remember that one.

http://www.bikeweb.com/node/494

ARGHH MY EYES!

ARGHH MY EYES!

Maybe, but they are built in ‘sheds’, and you need to experience the ride.

Mine was a modified 350YPVS. Less acceleration due to weight but totally stable, even flat out, and fully wind/rain proof. You’ve got to remember just how bad must bikes handled then, so alternatives were been explored.

Go for it! Looks awesome!

Maybe, but they are built in ‘sheds’, and you need to experience the ride. You’ve got to remember just how bad must bikes handled then.

We’re they really all that bad though? Alot of people seemed more than happy to bomb around using bikes with the more traditional saddle seat position.

I truly do respect and love anything built in a shed that provides a solution to a problem but clearly it didn’t stick for a reason? I wouldn’t mind betting alot of people would try one and think it was unrideable. But of course its very subjective so if it felt good to you then thats all that matters.

It’s strange how MZs don’t look so ugly anymore.

I know what you mean – they’ve crossed over into ‘classic’ territory.
Even CX500’s don’t look THAT bad these days. 🙂

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F2 motorcycles in Oxfordshire – fascinating place.
You can still buy a new Jawa:

When I was a kid I’d rather have eaten worms than ride one, but now I’m very tempted. 😐

Still love one of the Ural combos,

but I’m not paying £10,000 for one.

MrSparkle – Member
And remember Bloodrunners?

Hell yes, Suzi was my first obsession and I love the idea of hub steering.

Anyone remember the Quasar?

Reliant engined 🙂

I was ===>this<=== close to getting one!

Druid – yes & there was one at Cassington bike night this summer, roadworthy & everything 😯

Had a bloodrunners “got anything faster in pink” t shirt bitd – was going through a bit of an ambiguous phase at the time 😳

Suzi was my first obsession

Tina Tailpipe for me… 😳

200 quid!

We’re they really all that bad though? Alot of people seemed more than happy to bomb around using bikes with the more traditional saddle seat position.

It takes a long time to change perceptions, tubeless for example; even on m/c’s took a long while, and apparently some MTBers still use tubes 😯

druidh – I’ve ridden a Quaser, along with many other of the FF’s – there is a nack to it, especially at low speeds (and filtering in traffic where a standard riding position is unbeatable) and visability (unable to see over cars) in urban conditions. But on open roads they are amazing, plus no wind at high speeds. They are also very safe, Paul Blez on the FF site hit an upturned car in one and was unhurt, Malcolm I remember rode one onto a ditch to show their strength.

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Prices on eBay are ranging between £200 and £500. To keep or to sell 😆

Keep for your bmw and get it sprayed black? 😆 Enough of these hideous ff bikes and those plastic things with giant pleasure toys sticking out of the front. Back to cafe’s trackers and bobbers. 😆

2013 Guzzi v7

Um2 shortened BMW R80’s built by Untitled Motorcycles based just down the road from where I used to live in Kentish Town. They build them to order, the scrambler with the raw tank is for sale.

Yammy xs650 by wrenchmonkees

Love this cb 750!

I’ll probably get lynched for this, but I do have a soft spot for these:

😀

Couple of nice Series 2’s:

Vespa PX based custom:

Stunner of a Vespa Smallframe:

Or, if you’d like to keep the unreliability of a stock Lambretta, but with a bit more pep:

😀

See, now you’ve gone and spoiled EVERYTHING.

It’s not 1963 anymore you know. 🙂
You are allowed to like both.

I do remember being threatened at a bike rally back in the 80’s when I happened to mention my perversion. 😀

I was a member of Oldham and District MC when I was a youngster (used to meet at the Plough in Werneth).
We had a few ‘odd’ members; a Harley rider and a couple of trike owners, but I was the only one who occaisionally admitted to a bit of small wheel action.

lets try to at least try to stay on topic (ish)

Looks like someone has put a Beemer engine in a jones up there on the right.

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread up, but ever since it was posted, I can’t seem to stop wanting one of these. I had set my heart on a MK1 Escort or Caterham as a mid life/50 years old/mortgage finished pressie, but these just look great. (and the MK Escorts are silly money 🙁 )

Last bike I had was 30 years ago and that was only one of these

Having keep popping back to this thread and looking at some of the bike on wrenchmonkees website, I really think one of these CX500 is on the cards. These looks just superb

Anybody else on STW built a cafe racer or contemplating it?

and how do you go about insuring them?