Cafe Racer Bike London
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Cafe racer bike london. Preorders for the first 100 bikes are already being taken with a 1000 refundable deposit needed to secure your stroker. The company was founded in september 2015 by designer james hilton and renowned motorcycle engineer ray petty and the four person crew includes max vanoni engineering. This is also why cafe racers bare such a striking resemblance to the competition machines of half a century ago as well as why these race derived bikes traditionally sport a headlight. Vitpilen means white arrow in sweden whereas this bike s lock stock and barrel cousin is.
30k lightweight british built two stroke café racer incoming. In post war britain car ownership was still uncommon but by the late. It s difficult if not impossible to pin down which bike was the first true production café racer as the genre slowly evolved into being over time. Husqvarna a new brand to india has taken the cafe racer route for one of its bikes the vitpilen 250.
The term originated among british motorcycle enthusiasts of the early 1960s in london specifically within the rocker or ton up boys youth subculture where the bikes were used for short quick rides between popular cafés in watford at the busy bee café and the ace café in stonebridge london. Death machines of london dmol who has maybe the best name in the business has recently unveiled their first build this incredible moto guzzi le mans airtail cafe racer and we re so proud to showcase it here.