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K1600 , er , S ?
« on: August 20, 2022, 06:55:02 pm »
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Re: K1600 , er , S ?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2022, 08:48:33 pm »
I tried but it looks like a half arsed steam punk effort. The panels up front look like I shaped them!

I will now waste the rest of my evening perusing that website though!
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2022, 09:09:50 pm »
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Re: K1600 , er , S ?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2022, 07:51:16 am »
Quote from: fjtwelve on August 20, 2022, 06:55:02 pm
I'll just leave this here

https://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/bmw-motorcycles-cafe-racer/valtoron-la-bulla-bmw-k1600/#Echobox=1660999961

Blimey....not everyone’s cup of tea but some effort that is, I presume the two guys in photo are the builders, which on first appearance  :o not sure i’d Be happy having them blow my tyres up  >:(
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Re: K1600 , er , S ?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2022, 11:16:48 pm »
That is a shockingly bulbous design.

Try this one instead:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-motorrad-concept-6-unveiled-13078.html#agal_18
and click on the images at the top to expand the set.

Or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=909t0SeJyv0
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Re: K1600 , er , S ?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2022, 07:56:57 am »
There is no doubting the skill and commitment of the builders but, for me, the K1600 platform is always going to be too long and too heavy to have any form of sporting pretentions. Building a café racer with it is, I’d suggest, an exercise in the totally pointless.
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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2022, 12:05:21 pm »
It's true. If only they made an engine just like it, but a bit smaller.
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« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2022, 06:13:39 pm »
Quote from: richtea on August 22, 2022, 12:05:21 pm
It's true. If only they made an engine just like it, but a bit smaller.
I'm making one! Oh no wait wrong thread never mind.
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Re: K1600 , er , S ?
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2022, 09:44:56 pm »
Quote from: black-k1 on August 22, 2022, 07:56:57 am
There is no doubting the skill and commitment of the builders but, for me, the K1600 platform is always going to be too long and too heavy to have any form of sporting pretentions. Building a café racer with it is, I’d suggest, an exercise in the totally pointless.

Seeing as no cafe racer I have ever seen has ever 'raced' from one cafe to another other than along a dead straight A road, the sporting pretentious don't really come into it and it is rather a design exercise to fulfil someone's fantasy. As such it is probably a huge success  :)

As an alternative to a K13S it is a waste of a donor bike.
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