Best Cafe Racer Bike 2019
It s air cooled 961cc 2 cylinder engine has 80hp and 90nm to move 202kg of dry weight.
Best cafe racer bike 2019. The bike comes with state of the art parts like brembo brakes and öhlins suspension. We choose five of the best café bikes from factories in 2019. Compared to the monstrous 591 lb 2019 bmw r1250gsa hp the cafe racer is a very manageable weight for low speed maneuvering as well as high speed canyon carving. Visordown is the world s fastest growing motorcycle website with all the latest motorb.
Low riding position to keep wind drag down to a minimum but it does mean they aren t the most comfortable of bikes for long distances. Cafe fans who remember the impact of the legendary w1 will no doubt feel a direct connection to kawasaki s 2019 reintroduction of the w800 racer. Brad peterson s yamaha tz750 flat track racer the tz750 is one of the most fearsome race bikes of all time. The cafe racer tips the scales at a weight of 396 8 lbs dry and with all fluids ready to ride it sits at just 432 lbs.
Café racers can be traced back to post ww2 england. Kenny roberts hit 145 mph on one and it was so fast that it was banned after a single major race outing. Like scramblers historically café racers were originally production road bikes from the 1950s and 60s that had been modified either by their. That was enough to cement its legendary status and also enough to spur brad peterson into commissioning this very classy replica.
Following our look at the best scramblers of 2019 if there are two dominant themes in the current biking fashion for all things retro then after scramblers it has to be that of the café racer. The best cafe racers. The norton commando 961 is a cafe racer with pure cafe racer blood taking you back to the original commandos. Many a young men were returning home from the global conflict with cash in their pockets and as a consequence the uk experienced an uptick in the popularity of motorcycles however riders weren t just buying bikes they were stripping them down ridding them of any and all superfluous parts and making performance upgrades.
Going along with its friendly demeanor is the 31 7 inch seat. Bmw r ninet racer. Retro styling abounds but it s enhanced by modern technology and sophistication to give the w800 the aesthetic cafe purists can respect with a level of performance today s rider demands. Racers were originally about lightweight speed and handling but these days it s more of a styling.