Tourer or Cruiser?

**Gasman** · 27th September 2004, 15:02

I go with the Cafe Racer line. Like I said when you first joined, it's a cool looking bike, and I bet you're having fun on it.

**Skyryder** · 27th September 2004, 15:26

Cocked up my vote.

Voted before reading the post

What was the question and whose shout

Skyryder

**Motu** · 27th September 2004, 15:27

Originally Posted by XJ/FROSTY

nahh--u guys all have it wrong--hes a Nekkid bike rider or a retro boy.
Either way-nice bike Ya gotta love all that exposed engine

Well,a cafe racer's retro in't it?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 27th September 2004, 18:30

Originally Posted by jrandom

you can't have an utterly-naked tourer, it's just not the right word, is it?

So what do ya call older beemer twins? - mine probably counts as effectively naked, and some are completely so. Are they just "motorbikes", defying classification???

**jrandom** · 27th September 2004, 18:38

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

So what do ya call older beemer twins? - mine probably counts as effectively naked, and some are completely so. Are they just "motorbikes", defying classification???

They're 'standards'.

Actually, no, really. 'Standards' is the accepted term, AFAIK.

[Edit: Yours isn't nekkid. It's NOT. It has plastic bits up front. Ridin' the bikini beemer, that's you.]

**Jackrat** · 27th September 2004, 18:40

All the younger folks would probably call it a Retro.What ever that is!!
I call it a very nice cafe styled bike.
If yours is the black one,keep it that way,just add a bit of tastefull chrome in the right places.
It's already a sweet looking bike.

**riffer** · 27th September 2004, 19:23

Yup. I have to agree with everyone else. Definitely a cafe racer and quite a tasty one at that.

Just a little bit of chrome in the right places and it'll be looking really sweet. Nice bike.

**White trash** · 27th September 2004, 20:23

Originally Posted by Yokai

black exhaust cover (what protects me from getting burnt), :

Is that what that's for.....

**MacD** · 27th September 2004, 21:04

Yep, it's a cafe racer. Pretty similar in lines to Honda's GB400/500, both nice looking bikes.

**Yokai** · 30th September 2004, 15:50

Right - so a cafe racer it is - now time to figure out who wants to come with me on a cafe crawl - 4 cafe's over the space of 8 hours - about 2 hours riding between cafes... Starting in Auckland, and doing a nice big circuit with some twisties in it (not that I know what a twisty is) and some nice straights... I'm guessing that it would be a sunday at some point, but I think it would be a cool thing to do.

Yo

**Posh Tourer :P** · 30th September 2004, 16:33

I'd be in

**avgas** · 18th November 2004, 00:39

bmws are like a "chunky" catagory - chunky cruisers, chunky cafe racers, and chunky sports bikes. so yeh they are theyre own. good bikes - i still would mind a 650

**avgas** · 18th November 2004, 00:42

all the way - looks so good
but i dont like that vtwin in there - chuck a parrallel twin, or even better a single in there, also chuck some heavy duty shocks (konis?) inthere.
sex on wheels

gimme gimme gimme
what is it and how much? - is it the new SRX?