What a delicious little bike

[Twisted]

I would love to have this in my garage. Price is Aussie dollar so don't have a heart attack you Yanks.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Honda-1977-CB550K-cafe-racer-/110861107056?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item19cfd63f70

[codajastal]

Awesomeness

[The Buddha]

Awesome paint, awesome polishing and awesome everything else ... but for choice of bike.
A cafe or a flat tracker works only if the motor and the rest of the mechanicals are narrower than the tank, seat, tail.
And yes a fatter tank seat and tail will achieve that ... except it would look stupid, like the "Mamut" from east germany of a few years ago.
Cool.
Buddha.

[Twisted]

I can live with a fat motor  So I'm guessing you don't like Guzzi's then?

[The Buddha]

Love guzzi's ... WTF you talking about, if a jackal turned up @ my door cold. wet and shivering, no way I'd turn it away ...

I just wont cafe it and put 3000 bucks worth of paint on it and a cowl on it and try to pass it off as one ...

A cafe is one you want to ride all night in the rain and fog to get to what someone in your club refered to as the most wicked set of switch backs ever since Chengis Khan invented the cork screw ... and nothing that would look the part has a motor 6" wider than the tank.

Now there is no shortage of bikes that would look the part. Any 80's 2 cyl. CB450, gs450, kz440, xs450, xs500, xs650 etc etc etc. But to do this to a cb750 is just wrong. The $ was better spent turning the cb into an amen savior frame chopper.

Cool.
Buddha.

[Big Rich]

I thought the eBay listing was for a 550? Check out what Carpy does to the CB750's - some people like his work, some don't.

The 550 is a pretty sought after bike for cafe's - little less power than a 750, but also a lot less weight. Have you guys seen Ringo's "Gulf" CB550?

[Twisted]

I thought the eBay listing was for a 550? Check out what Carpy does to the CB750's - some people like his work, some don't.

The 550 is a pretty sought after bike for cafe's - little less power than a 750, but also a lot less weight. Have you guys seen Ringo's "Gulf" CB550?

I have, real nice on both accounts. I would love to get a cafe style bike but the money you pay for them you can get a pretty decent road bike. I spose there is a lot of time and effort that goes into them.
Yeh the eBay listing is for the 550. Buddha was saying he didn't like fat motors in cafe bikes so I was wondering what he thought of Guzzi's as they make pretty nice cafe bikes but have huge motors in them (huge in that they stick out from under the bike)

[codajastal]

Well I still think its fkn AWESOME and keep going back to look at the pretty pictures

Heres the video of the bike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt6GU49_04

[The Buddha]

I thought the eBay listing was for a 550? Check out what Carpy does to the CB750's - some people like his work, some don't.

The 550 is a pretty sought after bike for cafe's - little less power than a 750, but also a lot less weight. Have you guys seen Ringo's "Gulf" CB550?

WTH - isn't it like 3 am where you are.
My excuse is that I have the mother of all heartburn. Injun food man. I have the worst reaction to it.

Cool.
Buddha.

[Big Rich]

5 am actually! 

I work steady midnight shift in a machine shop. So I'm basically being paid to surf the interwebs.......

[The Buddha]

5 am actually! 

I work steady midnight shift in a machine shop. So I'm basically being paid to surf the interwebs.......

Thought you were in the midwest ... you're in newfoundland ?
So a newfie joke.
Hey, what do you call a canadian with 1/2 his brain sucked out. Quebecuois.
What you call a quebecuois with 1/2 his brain sucked out. Newfie.
Cool.
Buddha.

[cbrfxr67]

me like,...looks great

[Big Rich]

Thought you were in the midwest ... you're in newfoundland ?
Cool.
Buddha.

Sorry Buddha - I'm just northwest of Pittsburgh.  But I do have friends in Newfoundland......

[Kijona]

Mmm...tastes like mustard!

[The Buddha]

Look @ pic #9. That isn't the worst angle either, but it is one of the bad ones.
Cool.
Buddha.

[steezin_and_wheezin]

GORGEOUS!

would love to build a cafe someday