Brand new retro bike.

[Garnet]

http://www.cycleworld.com/2014/03/06/20 ... TPkA.email

Kick start only. There are only a few bikers left who can remember how to do that.

[Rob]

Ew, kind of takes me back to my '78 XS750SE Special.
While this one is not quite so extreme, I learned A LOT about the impact styling has on the comfort of a motorcycle.
It was a great bike - I only wish I had chosen the standard model.

Surely they are not going to try and sell this to USA-folk (sometimes known as 'merikans...).

[Garnet]

Surely they are not going to try and sell this to USA-folk (sometimes known as 'merikans...).

From the article:
"It takes chutzpah to introduce a kick-start-only streetbike in the US market, but that’s precisely what Yamaha has done with the narrow 384-pound SR400, which traces its lineage back to the SR500 that made its US debut in 1978."

The Cafe Racer crowd will love it, me thinks.

[dougie]

I love that whole concept.
Here's one that has been "cafe'd".
http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/20 ... .html#more

[robert]

That's a scrambler this is a cafe racer.

[Rob]

That's your work, isn't it, Bob!?

[robert]

[Rob]

I said that wrong.

"That is your pleasure" !

[Major Softie]

That's a scrambler this is a cafe racer.

Your right, the other bike is not a cafe, but I still like it - almost as much as yours.

[robert]

Thank you, it's been a fun project. Goes and handles way beond my expectations.--RG