Café Racer: Those who have young people have the future
Let's face it. For a while it looked as if the last Goldwing or BMW driving ANWB member would have to turn off the lights for the more quiet hobbies looking for more and more aging motorcyclists. Only the KNMV would then survive until the end of the days in blessed memory. The ANWB has divested the in-house motorcycle magazine - which was once the largest motorcycle magazine in the Netherlands - by the way. They no longer saw any bread in it. But from the Randstad, especially from 020, a whole new generation of M / V motorcyclists is emerging.
Affordable motorcycle fun from 020
No classics are desecrated there, but motorcycles are saved. In Steenwijk, the Hammer brothers do the same. Only at non-Randstad prices. The approach is that there are a lot of technically good, but commercially or collectively worthless 'old bikes' for sale. Think of almost all middle class Japanese from the eighties and nineties. Honda CB 400 twins, 750 cc Bol d'Ors, Yamaha XS 750-850 three-cylinders (the XS 650's have been on the rise for a while), the 'smaller than 900 cc' BMW boxers from the / 6 and / 7 series, Suzuki GS 550 and 1000's, a whole nest of Kawa's…. All Moto Guzzi's under 700 cc also only cost small change. By adapting these types of machines to their own taste, they keep driving, they give their owners motorcycling pleasure.
Of course, plenty of engines were rebuilt in the fifties, sixties and seventies. The hard core brand enthusiasts had a hard time with that. And now look at how we view a Triton, a Tribsa, a Norvin or Seeley Honda.
Okay: So it's still a few months cold. So quickly buy a nice old motorcycle for a couple of snaps and quickly turn it into a low-budget cafe racer. That will be enjoying this spring. Because we are witnessing the birth of a whole new generation of motorcyclists: Thirties who enjoy their motorcycles without having to get financing. Kewl!
And that a caferacer or 'Café Racer' is just as expensive as you want or can pay? The French company Godet proves this. Vincent Egli makes replicas. And that costs around a ton + per item.
