Beautiful R80 cafe racer

Came across this elsewhere, and tracked down the website for it:

http://tinyurl.com/R80racer

or

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout
=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritmo-sereno.com%2Fcustomfile%2Farchives%2F
2010%2F07%2F003101.html&sl=ja&tl=en

Looks absolutely stunning - a nice blend of modern and classic.

 

Doesn't it, just. Gorgeous. Notice how high the engine is hiked? No
rocker cover/track interface with this one...

 

What workmanship. They should take it to Chimay.

 

Nice. The "translation" or more accurately transliteration of some of
the Japan-ised names is fascinatimg. So far I've found:

Orleans=Ohlins
Burenbo=Brembo
masuta=master
burenboriamaster=brembo rear master
Riaburekimasuta=rear brake master
sairensa=silencer
orutaneta=alternator
Endyurarasutoorutaneta=Endurance race alternator
Orijinarusurasshuforumutanku=Original slash-form tank

Loads of others, I'm sure.

 

That's easily my favourite, especially read out loud

 

Arumioirukura = aluminium oil cooler?

 

That's one of those 'I can appreciate the workmanship but I don't like
the results' bikes for me. The tank's completely wrong for a 'cafe
racer' (although that appears to be your tag, not theirs), & the seat
unit's hideous.

 

Very nice .. but I prefer this one ...

http://www.ritmo-sereno.com/usedbike/archives/images/0910r100rs-1.html

Closer to original but looks much more 'do-able' at home ...

 

Well yeah but it's got standard forks yokes and brakes

 

I don't really know what to call it - 'cafe racer' seemed most
appropriate.

 

Not uncommon with single sided 'arm conversions

 

I think 'modified BMW' is most appropriate.

 

Loz is that you?

My B12 has mismatched wheels, one being 9R and the other 996.

We don't all have a garage full of Dymags you know.

 

Oddly, I would describe it as a cafe racer. Simply because the tank's
not the be all and end all. In my book of cafe racers not all have the
familiar ally look - a lot do have similar seat units, although the
racing number plate looks a bit wrong.

However, I agree with your view of I can see the workmanship.... But
it's not actually that nice a blend of modern and old. Wheels are odd
and the exhaust hanger is frankly awful.

 

A nice pair of spoked (as in 'traditional' looking) would probably had a
nicer effect. I doubt that BMW develops enough power to cause them a
problem.

Would there be a /massive/ weight difference between Dymags and wire
spoked Borannis - similar to my Guzzi's? [1]



[1] Which is now back on the road but looking a bit battered and
unloved. The manky temporary red tank (the original developed a leak)
doesn't help and the seat is giving up the ghost. I've not really used
it the last 18 months and a total of 15 years at my tender mercies....

I'll have to give it a bit of lovin'
http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/guzzi-redtank-040710.jpg

 

That looks rather nice. There are a few nicely used T3s at the Guzzi
Club Vee Twin rally this weekend.

Mark

 

This is what it should look like (when it's not been ignored...)

http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/guzzi-010706.jpg
http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/guzzi_20070929_800.jpg

There's not a great deal of T3 left about it.

 

Dunno about yours, but the ones on my Quota, with Akront rims, weigh a
bloody ton. I always used to think that wire-spoke wheels were light.

 

My Boranni alloy rim wire wheels are lighter with bearing carriers /and/
discs than the OE LM stripped cast wheels.

 

It's because it's a German bike that's been engineered by the Japanese,
and has too much Japanese influence in it. It doesn't look to have any
of that Teutonic 'character', so it should be reliable at least.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)