Modern "cafe" racers and stuff.

[Big Dave]

Of goodness..... One thing to argue a point but you are gettin' a bit het up here big guy! I'm happy to agree to disagree...

Nah - you'll know if I get angry and it's highly unlikely in this medium - flame warrior-ring only.

[Paul in NZ]

Nah - you'll know if I get angry and it's highly unlikely in this medium - flame warrior-ring only.

Oh OK - Consider myself flame intimidated (assuming thats the appropriate thing?)

[2_SL0]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is this thing, it looks wicked.

http://www.vd-classic.com/img/realis...photovd022.jpg

[Big Dave]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is this thing, it looks wicked.

http://www.vd-classic.com/img/realis...photovd022.jpg

It does dunnit. XT500 on the tank - looks like that donk too.

[Big Dave]

Oh OK - Consider myself flame intimidated (assuming thats the appropriate thing?)

Argued with and moved on till the next round.

[2_SL0]

It does dunnit. XT500 on the tank - looks like that donk too.

Yeah I saw that, but it didnt make sense to me when I googled XT 500.
Is it a hybrid with a XT 500 engine?

[GB500nz]

Copies? LOL! When I was rebuilding a Simpson 250 (copy of pre-war BMW 250) I needed a piston and rings. Turns out all the Euro and Brit 250 & 500 bikes were copies of each other. I used a BSA 500 piston in it. No probs. The Tribsa triple was, of course, a tribsa 500 plus an extra pot. The Japanese succeeded not because they copied but because they innovated in an industry that had been stagnating for decades. They always had been innovative. Look at their Long Lance torpedo, the best in the world in 1940 and copied by the winners after the war.

[Badcat]

Yeah I saw that, but it didnt make sense to me when I googled XT 500.
Is it a hybrid with a XT 500 engine?

yep - the XT, TT and SR500 of the late '70s - early "80s shared a very similar motor.
that bike looks like a SOS (sound of singles class) racebike.
vdclassic (sad name) is a great site.
some of the images in my XT500 street tracker thread are from this crazy frenchman.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=11291
my project is using a much modded 600 cc version of this motor.

K

[mstriumph]

I.................. But to me the Triumph was light and nippy,it felt like fun to ride,not stodgy like ''the others''.I think this is what endears the Triumph to the romantics...so what if a Norton could ride around the outside of you....it felt faster....and that's all that matters with the rose tinted specs of nostalga....

you are making me weep .....

[Paul in NZ]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is this thing, it looks wicked.

http://www.vd-classic.com/img/realis...photovd022.jpg

A while back there was a really good single pot 4 stroke racing class in europe. (600cc??) Bimota and Ducati both produced a couple of amazing bikes that were achingly pretty to boot.

Not sure it ever went anyplace which is a bit of a shame. I'd guess that this is something to do with that as a lot of privateers (apparently) used XT600 engines...

[Badcat]

A while back there was a really good single pot 4 stroke racing class in europe. (600cc??) Bimota and Ducati both produced a couple of amazing bikes that were achingly pretty to boot.

Not sure it ever went anyplace which is a bit of a shame. I'd guess that this is something to do with that as a lot of privateers (apparently) used XT600 engines...

yep SOS (Sound of Singles). i was hoping the new popularity of supermoto may renew interest in this...

k

[Pixie]

As I've said before - I'm cool with anybody riding - But fuck I don't like W650's.
The embodyment of the Japanese rip off. A copy for it's own sake. A GN250 has more street cred - at least it's not trying to be something it isn't.

Yeah, and good original bike like BMW's flat twin are copies of Douglas',made under licence by BMW after the war (WW1)
So what's new?
Bloor Triumphs are copies of Jap Multis are copies of italian multi racing bikes.
Rocket III's are copies of Hendersons,Indians and Sunbeams,are copies of FN's

[Bonez]

Bling bling- http://www.caferace.com/cafepix.html