No you are talking! Bicycles I know, bicycles I love. They were my first love. I picked the bastard bicycling genre of Track bikes (or fixed gear).
I find that it is identical to the people who love cafe racers. In a world were everyone wants a road frame that is thousands of dollars, there is this sub genre of riding were the importance is on functionality and simplicity. we make them sleek and fast. we take off the gears and makes it direct drive. We ditch the spandex and ditch most cycling styles. We ride fast in the middle of the street racing cars downtown and organize night rides that end in chaos. anyway... this reminds me of cafe racers. Motorcylces are just as comon place. Except we have (not me or you... normal people) this gross love with load ugly harley crusiers that are soaked in chorme and excess. 40 somethings in all leather garb just to go down the street. Tassles... really? tassles.. i mean those arent tuff... they dont make the bike faster, why have them? (side note here...most of these bikers comment on homosexulas.. yet i have never seen a homosexual wearing chaps with fringe, a matching jacket with fringe, a leather bandana and matching tassles on a bike) so when you get a group of individuals that take a simple bike and take off all the crap, make it faster and just do their own thing... thats the same. its that racer spirit. anyways, im not making since because rum is good.
but i say... throw those deep drop track bars on your cafe racer!
and the name cafe racer.. yeah i dont really care. But if you dropped a 302 in that MGB (ala carol shelby) that would for sure embrace the cafe racer spirit (of today, not the all style no substance days). IF that bicycle frame gets built correctly (first off we want to change those drop outs and cut those brazeons, then put some 700's on there) then it could be a cafe racer...
well guys.. thanks for reading and remember
horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.
He's always on a steady course.
Talk to Mr. Ed.
david
nonsense is me
Edited by - ascentofstan2 on Dec 09 2005 3:04:13 PM