Showing posts with label 2 stroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2 stroke. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

iron fist. velvet glove.

cafe racer motorcycles
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One fine looking RD350 and one tough mother of a T500.
(The Cafe Racer Magazine booth - the last of my pictures from the Javits Center last week.)

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

triplet smoker fetish

classic 2-stroke suzuki GT750 special
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There ain't nothing like a triple with castor bean oil in it's DNA.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

sweet hacktastically compelling RD

yamaha RD400 rat racer
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You might be saying "what the f*ck are you thinking, man?"

After all, It's not your typical super-finely-detailed Special. In fact there doesn't seem to be anything special about it at all.

Look at it. It's COOL!

Seems nearly stock, with the money put where it does the most good - old School fork brace, piggyback reservoir shocks, expansion chambers.

Random, eclectic styling: Yellow tank with a lowered badge, weird pastel fenders (undercoat?) with stickers plastered on, a single bar-end mirror (keep it legal), red fork brace, black side panel with the number "4" on it... "8" would've been cooler.

Pure Genius. It would be TOTALLY at home trolling the Forbidden Zone with the Toe Cutter and his gang, thumbing it's nose at "The Bronze".

Seriously... I'm not being facetious here. I love this bike. It's badass.

P.S. - In the future, I might post pix of bikes that actually have chrome and billet on them... maybe.

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