Titan performance
Titan cafe racer builders.
Titan Performance is a small outfit based in the rural southeast of England.
Us limeys love a cafe racer, and they are becoming more and more popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Tim and I, have owned 500 Titans for decades...in fact 2 of our bikes have been with us since the seventies, when they were relatively new ! Turning them into cafe racers requires some special components to do a credible job....problem is....those items are now 35 years old or more, and have either disappeared, or are in tatty condition. It was this dilemma, that first prompted us to consider making these parts ourselves. We both have motor trade histories going back to the seventies, and between us, a list of verified contacts built up through years spent in the trade. We have both owned, built and rebuilt countless bikes between us over the years, so thought ourselves reasonably qualified to take the job on. We set about tracking down some basic machinery with the help of ebay, and got on with making our first sets of expansion chambers and rearsets about last february. We were pleased with the results, but the response from people at local bike gatherings was unbelievable, and we quickly realised there was a commercial market for the products we had built. We decided to go for it, and got cracking with developing various items, and fired up a web site. (www.classic2strokesuzuki.com) . It's gone from strength to strength, and we have sent 500 stuff all over the world, and in particular, to you guys in the USA, who seem to especially appreciate our work.....thanks for that guys ! In fact, one of our valued customers has a really great thread posted here on Dotheton.......check out wingspan's 500 engine rebuild story.
Aside from producing a range of cafe racer items, we are also now occupied with two cafe racer builds, one for a customer who saw our work and wanted one there and then....and the other, is our own project, which we will list here as a short story in pictures.
Hopefully this will be of interest to some of you guys, and we would more than welcome your comments and suggestions.
Turn up your volume, and see what we are about.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbBcW_vx4DY
Paul.
Us limeys love a cafe racer, and they are becoming more and more popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Tim and I, have owned 500 Titans for decades...in fact 2 of our bikes have been with us since the seventies, when they were relatively new ! Turning them into cafe racers requires some special components to do a credible job....problem is....those items are now 35 years old or more, and have either disappeared, or are in tatty condition. It was this dilemma, that first prompted us to consider making these parts ourselves. We both have motor trade histories going back to the seventies, and between us, a list of verified contacts built up through years spent in the trade. We have both owned, built and rebuilt countless bikes between us over the years, so thought ourselves reasonably qualified to take the job on. We set about tracking down some basic machinery with the help of ebay, and got on with making our first sets of expansion chambers and rearsets about last february. We were pleased with the results, but the response from people at local bike gatherings was unbelievable, and we quickly realised there was a commercial market for the products we had built. We decided to go for it, and got cracking with developing various items, and fired up a web site. (www.classic2strokesuzuki.com) . It's gone from strength to strength, and we have sent 500 stuff all over the world, and in particular, to you guys in the USA, who seem to especially appreciate our work.....thanks for that guys ! In fact, one of our valued customers has a really great thread posted here on Dotheton.......check out wingspan's 500 engine rebuild story.
Aside from producing a range of cafe racer items, we are also now occupied with two cafe racer builds, one for a customer who saw our work and wanted one there and then....and the other, is our own project, which we will list here as a short story in pictures.
Hopefully this will be of interest to some of you guys, and we would more than welcome your comments and suggestions.
Turn up your volume, and see what we are about.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbBcW_vx4DY
Paul.
