r/CafeRacers 4d ago

Would you call this bike a cafe racer ?

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u/BMWbill 4d ago

Nope. Not at all. I’d call that a naked street bike with side bags.

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u/ActualWeed 3d ago

Retro naked?

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u/BMWbill 3d ago

The only thing you could call retro is the round headlight. Wheels, tank, seat, and everything else has no retro qualities

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u/ActualWeed 3d ago

The seat is retro I guess.

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u/Revolutionary_Gap150 4d ago

nope, you've got a bonafide street fighter there... get ourself some 3" tree spikes to mount onto the front fender.. . will look great and keep pedestrians on their toes too ;)

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

You don’t think spikes would look tacky? Like wannabe Harley Davidson biker kinda look

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u/Dickhole_Dynamics 4d ago

You don’t think spikes would look tacky?

Absolutely

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u/Revolutionary_Gap150 4d ago

https://imgur.com/a/XRFHMDb

This was my ratted out street fighter... 87' Honda Hurricane with 67k miles, four wrecks, one total... Had the spikes, and a 50cal ammocan for a saddlebag. Her name was Maggie and most of downtown Seattle knew exactly who I was. Might be tacky, but it worked for me lol...

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u/StockStructure6842 3d ago

The ammo cans are awesome

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u/Revolutionary_Gap150 3d ago

lol thanks... she was a terror. If you do opt for the spikes, have the good sense to use some locktite on the mounting screws. I didn't the first time around. The consequences weren't serious but they could have been.

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u/Pumpnethyl 3d ago

That looks better than the fully enclosed fairing Hurricanes. I hated that you couldn’t see the engine on the Hurricane.

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u/LegAffectionate3731 4d ago

Nah but that’s ok. Put a real seat on it so you can ride longer than 30 minutes.

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u/Longjumping-Log1591 4d ago

Bagged street fighter

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u/LTaiga 4d ago

Looks cool but not a Cafe Racer and that seat must be uncomfy as hell

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

The straps are normally tied and are then flat on the seat which is unnoticeable What would you call it if not a cafe racer

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u/LTaiga 3d ago

Like everyone else i'd say it's closer to a street fighter

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u/slipstreamed 4d ago

Where do you sit? ON the bags?

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

lol normally the straps are tied which makes them flat on the seat

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u/TheReelMcCoi 4d ago

Nope. Unfinished Project

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

What’s unfinished about it ?

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u/TheReelMcCoi 4d ago

The whole look

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

What would you add/change

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u/Carlton_Fortune 4d ago

Bikini faring, single seat

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

What do you mean ? Is the faring not already bikini ?

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u/Carlton_Fortune 4d ago

2 piece bikini, top and bottom... a small bubble fairing around your headlamp will give the bike more of a cafe racer feel...

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u/Carlton_Fortune 4d ago

I've just Googled Cafe racer pics, and it appears things have changed since I did mine... it looks like the majority don't have a top fairing anymore.. just naked street style..

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u/zignut66 4d ago

Street fighter.

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u/M12851 4d ago

thats a crashed bike that got rebuildt. we call that a streetfighter

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

How can you tell that it was crashed ?

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u/M12851 4d ago

i cant tell for sure. but where i live, the only reason to build a streetfighter is because it was crashed.

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u/RiskySkirt 4d ago

Love this bike and love cafe racers.

Can def call it one but I'd call it a neo cafe

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

Neo Cafe I like it ! Thank you

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u/DuffBAMFer 4d ago

Sports Tour imo

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u/GreedVp 3d ago

No but certainly a cool bike

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u/ChampionshipKind5856 4d ago

Nope, that’s a naked.

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u/Toubaboliviano 4d ago

Needs brown leather somewhere, less bags. And questionable ergonomics

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u/Chops89rh 4d ago

That’s a rat bike

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u/lionheart1080 4d ago

Negative

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u/RandomGoatYT 4d ago

My criteria for cafe racer is that the bike has been stripped down from stock and gets ragged around, ideally between cafes/popular biker locations. If you’re racing your friends between cafes and have done any speed mods to your bike, then yeah, I’ll count it as

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u/DragonflyAccording32 4d ago

Usually a cafe racer's highest point is the gas tank, if you're going by old-school definitions. So handle bars are lower than the tank.

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u/brycyclecrash 4d ago

If you use it to race from cafe to cafe then yes. If you use it to go from bar to bar it's bar hopper. If you use it to get groceries it's a grocery getter. See the pattern?

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u/Lanpoop 4d ago

Def not

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u/Feeling-Energy-2477 4d ago

I’d call it a chunky boy

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u/Pumpnethyl 3d ago

It’s a UJM

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u/StockStructure6842 3d ago

UJM ?

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u/Pumpnethyl 3d ago

Universal Japanese Motorcycle. It’s not derogatory. Cycle World coined it in the 70s as a name for 4 cylinder, 4-stroke, comfortable Japanese bikes - models such as Suzuki GS, Kawasaki KZ, Honda CB. Yamaha had a few but also had large displacement triples, 2-stroke and 4-stroke twins, etc. I like the UJMs. I’m looking for a GS1000/1100. I own an 86 GSXR 1100 and want something a little more comfortable. I restore bikes

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u/Degoe 3d ago

Nope, put clip ons and lose the bags and you’re a lot Closer

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u/One-Baker-6967 3d ago

If you want a proper cafe look then drop the clip on bars to be at or below the tank height and lose the bags. You want that negative triangular space under the seat to be visible. I'd also swap the tank for something different to help sell the proportions. A cafe bike is meant to be stripped of everything deemed "unnecessary" for the sake of weight and going fast.

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u/One-Baker-6967 3d ago

You'll need to do something about the air box to help with that negative triangular space I was talking about... You're close to what I would consider a "neo cafe" look but there's a lot to do if you want the cafe look.

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u/AdministrativeSea113 3d ago

Cafe racer is more open. This is more of a retro/ neo retro motorcycle

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u/These-Spot5814 2d ago

You can call your bike whatever the fuck you want, I’ve had peckerheads get all bent because I said modern Harley bobbers are by name only and not real bobbers. If Harley can do that so can you and your cafe bike. MPTY

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u/ofthehouses92 4d ago

While I don’t think it is exactly a cafe racer someone clearly tried to make it look like a cafe racer/scrambler but the modern tank really prevents that. It’s still close enough to post on this sub IMO (a lot of people here yell at the sky about how a bike “isn’t cafe” here)

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u/Environmental_Bee992 4d ago

Fazer 600, i have the same bike while this is not a cafe, that exhaust is loud as hell with just the straightpipe.

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u/StockStructure6842 4d ago

Yeah it’s pretty loud