I don't have a cafe racer, but I d have a Vintage racer. Like Jim said I'm vintage too. Always wanted to race, but in the early years, wife, children, bills, responsibility. Now in my later years, wife (same one) grown children, bills, responsibility, though now I don't give a flying fuck!!!! Hell, I'll be 50 in a couple of days and I'll be damned if I aint gonna make the most of it.
Anyway, a couple of years ago I went to a VRRA Vintage Festival at Mosport, saw a bunch of guys my age having a hell of a lot of fun, talked to some of the guys in the pits and found that Vintage racing can be as cheap or expensive as you want.
Then they announced that they were having parade laps at lunch, $25.00, bike passes tech, and out you go around Mosport for about 1/2 an hour!!!
I'd only had my 1200 Bandit for a few months and thought "what the hell" so I get out there and after a few laps I was hooked, I mean I was getting up to the 240-250km/h on the Andretti straight. Well one thing lead to another, I got my racing licence that August at FAST, went on the VRRA website found, looked at and bought my 350. Went to the winter shows and bought all my stuff, put on a new set of tires, showed up at the test and tune in April of 05...and the rest my friends is (my) racing history.