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Here's an essay I posted on a car forum about 10 years ago when a thread about Shelby Cobra-clone kit cars drifted into derision of sport bikes and cafe racers. They didn't take motorcycles very seriously at all, so I thought I'd speak for myself and those like me with this: I think it's...

Been into cafe racers since about 1975 when I made my '73 RD250 Yamaha over, with rearsets, seat-tail combo, TD2B front brake, and a full fairing with a headlight, and clip ons. Those are too low now for me to use- arthritis, 70 years old, etc.- so I replaced them with Seca 550 bars. I'm very...