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Cafe Avvellanto

Simo

Simo

Just got it firing!
Joined
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London
Hi Guys
I saw this on the motgraphite website
http://www.motographite.com/2011/08/mot ... offee.html
and have fallen in love. Looking to build something similar but I'm not sure what the donor bike was. I need a hardened Guzzi expert. Basically I would like to know anything and everything about this custom build. Can anyone help?
Thanks
S
 
Its an 1100 Sport with the fairing and bodywork taken off and a small headlight mounted screen. Buy an 1100 sport and an aftermarket headlight and set about destroying a motorcycle. Nothing particularly difficult involved.

Pete
 
Hi Pete

I have to agree with you, the 1100 sport is a beauty as is. The V11, V7 and Le Mans are all beauties, my Griso8V untouchable, what can I build in my shed?
 
Skill wise I'm an engineer. I have restored a few bikes and modified a few modern ones to get the personal touch. My last project was a Honda CX500, which I welded a Triumph back end to, to create a simple cafe racer, she rode nice until she got stolen. So I bought the Griso 8V and still have as it stock and want to keep it that way. So you might understand my need to tinker and fettle in the shed. I love cafe racers and my new love Guzzi's is pushing me to do something with a Guzzi.
 
Ok, great, what kind of engineer? Sorry if I seem to being nosey but I've previously had people tell me they were engineers, and they were, usually in fields completely divorced from mechanical engineering.

I had a bloke I tried to help a couple of years ago with an 8V Griso who spent endless time expounding on how he was an engineer and that there was something wrong with his bike. He *Knew* there was something wrong. Something horribly wrong. There wasn't. He is an engineer. A structural engineer. He probably builds a killer multi-storey car park but mechanics are obviously a, if not closed, at least thinly leaved book.

Building a Cafe type special is not very difficult. Like most 'Choppers' or other 'Customs' the main components are available from catalogs. If you have some fabricating skills you can make something a lot more interesting. If you have some mechanical understanding it isn't difficult to build something that can walk the walk as well as talking the talk. The thing is that 'Cafe'ing' bikes, especially Guzzis, has become a sort of 'West Coast Choppers' for Hipsters.

This is a shame as there are still some truly outstanding personal statements out there that combine both imagination, integrity and artistry. They are very few and far between though.

What are you trying to achieve?

Pete
 
My own custome/cafe bike is a Guzzi Daytona. I removed the front fairing and swapped the rear of the subframe and seat over to a V11 rear section. I also upgraded to a GSXR front end and converted to handle bars.
The main reason I did all that was comfort. The handle bars and seat make it a bike I can ride as long as I want.
Everything I did was done so as to be un-doable. Everything I changed can be undone.
The bike was better looking before I did what I did but I could not ride it very long. Now it still looks good but I can ride it as long as I want. Maybe one day I will put the front fairing back on, but that seat was a torture device.

The moral of the story is establish what you want/need and then a plan to make it happen.
 
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