Juicebox skrev: 06 des 2018, 12:36
KåreDump skrev:
Litt enig med deg, dessverre er en del av det som blir kalt Café Racere i dag i samme kategori som det gikk som Street Fightere for en del år siden (vraka R-sykkel med Cross-styre fra Biltema).
Men du verden det fins mange virkelig flotte eksemplarer også!
Det var en bra sammenligning! Tenkte ikke å sammenligne de to byggene, men det er jo sant.
Jeg raka litt ned på viragoen lengre opp, men det skal sies at vtwinen der er fine å se på, kompakt og fin
The story never ends:) CR er opprinnelig "fattigguttens" gateracer fra 50-tallet og den opprinnelsen var ikke basert på "flotte eksemplarer". Hensikten var å få pappas 40-tallsmoppe til å gå fortere enn 100mph. Sånn sett er sammenligningen med "street-fightere" ganske bra, halvgamle sykler som personaliseres og tilpasses med lavbudsjett og BT-deler. Helt innafor

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The Ton-Up Boys
Keeping It 100
Preceded slightly by the Teddy Boys – the first, most notorious group of young British boys, a rock ‘n roll music-loving group of young men who wore Edwardian garb and Brylcreem jellyroll hairstyles – the café racers were known sometimes as the leather boys, sometimes as café racers. But only an exclusive group, a subculture within a subculture, could call themselves the “Ton-Up Boys.” It was called “doing the ton,” or “tonning up,” and it referred to hitting 100 mph on the back of a bike.
Hitting that mythic speed on motorcycle – whether you were on a Triumph, a Vincent, a Norton, an RE Twin, or the common home-forgery of the Triton – was proof of your mettle. It was the like Chuck Yeager exceeding the speed of sound when one of these boys exceeded 100 – and for most of them, who rode rather meager motored bikes, equally difficult. As a result of this metric of badassery hanging over their heads, the young café racers began chopping up their bikes and bolstering them, seeking to making them lighter and more powerful. The ambitions of these young men to upgrade their motorcycles portended the future of the café racer as the ultimate canvas for motorcycle customization. The Ton Up Boys had no qualms with stripping their bikes down to its skeletal frame, removing anything that would add unnecessary weight, and doing whatever it took, in order to top the century mark.
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