Top Secret

Photos from the BSA Cafe Racer Day Trip

Here's pics from the little day trip me, matt, and dad took. Working with models... BAH! such premadonna's

Everbody should know that Cafe Racers were bikes that were built to be stripped down, low weight, fast as snot motorcycles. They were typically owned by younger guys that weren't old enough to get into bars and so they would race eachother to the surrounding Cafe's... get it? It became quite a trend and that's where the name came from (I think, makes sense) So we begin our post with some coffee from the Bean Hollow in Ellicott City, MD.

The bike in the pictures is now for sale on Ebay, click here if you're interested

Coming Along...

The Yamaha is coming along nicely. Last week I had three full days in the garage and the last two days as well. I had cut and mounted a piece of sheet metal to match the frame for th new seat pan and then kinda didn't know what to do or how to make the rest of it. Between Matt and Dad helping me out and looking around at different cafe styled bike online, I figured that something traditional would be easiest to fabricate and would probably look best. Sooooooo...

The yellow Yamaha 360 tank that some may have seen before was cu up and is now the tail piece, the seat back is bent sheet metal butt welded to the new pan. Still need to trim the top and grind the welds down, but for my first time I'm happy with it. There's still quite a bit of work to be done but I'm having fun and can't wait to get riding this bike again soon.

Three days in the garage...

made a speedometer mounting bracket

made new pieces for the frame, spot welded them and the Daddio finished welding them in

made brackets for the tank... it's getting there, I like motorcycles and really want to finish this project for February... paintings, be good, i will return soon :)