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This is my first build, and I had to do so on a budget. Got about $3000 in her if you include the cost of tools. I posted an intermediary step (before paint) in the member introductions a while back. I sort of wanted to set out to prove that you didn't need to build/buy/fabricate expensive seats or rearsets in order to have a nice looking Cafe Racer. Let me know what you all think!
Oh, and a little bit about myself: I'm a 20 year old pre-medical student at Georgetown University in Washington D.C... which means the precious little free time I had between studying and partying was all spent building this bike
Nice to see another person my age doing a build up
I'm just finishing up a short engineering foundation course type thing here and most of the guys in my course are more concerned with who won the rugby, women and who lost the most money in the casino's in Macau than building something or doing something constructive
I love the color scheme of your bike, I am a huge sucker for racing stripes, theres just something about them.
The rim widths should be stamped somewhere on the wheels- that's what you need to know. Chances are, you front wheel (not tire) is 1.85" wide, so a 90/90-19. And the only 18" rear drum mag I've seen is also 1.85" wide. So 90/90-18 for the rear. Like I said though, it depends on what is stamped on them.
Very Nice. I like it a lot. I built mine on a tight budget too. Your's is prettier ;D As for tires, I like my Avon road riders and I got them for less than 200 Canadian installed and balanced for the pair. Some other good ones are the Kenda's they are a good inexpensive tire, (not Cheap). If you install them yourself you should be able to get 2 tires for around 125 -150. Your tires are in the old inch size so you need to do some googling for a tire converter to get the new metric sizes.
If the tires aren't as old as the bike I say leave'm! the obsolete tread pattern looks great. It's not like yer gonna go drag a knee on it if it "only" had better tires.
What Swap's says may be true. My bike came with the same Dunlops and they were only 3 years old. They still make those and a lot of guys run them cause they still sell them in the old inch 4.00-18 size. There is a date stamp on the side wall and if the tires aren't that old and not dry rotted, leave em till they are worn out and then replace them. That's what I did. I will tell you though, when I got the Avons on, the bike handled 10000 times better than it did with the dunlop vintage tread tires.
If the tires aren't as old as the bike I say leave'm! the obsolete tread pattern looks great. It's not like yer gonna go drag a knee on it if it "only" had better tires.
Thanks Guys for the praise- I really wasn't sure how that seat was going to turn out, but it looks like its not going to throw off the aesthetic. Tires are relatively new (<4 years) so I'll probably run them out before switching to more modern tread. Maybe the next bike will be built on a higher budget
I really dig this bike, great work man!! That paint scheme is great, and i think your seat/rear light combo is just brilliant
Hopefully if your next bike is on a bigger budget, you can do an even better job! Keep up the great work
Awesome Bike. I have the same model and I hope it turns out looking like as good as that one. Any chance you have some build pictures to post? Also what did you do for the seat?
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