Think it looks better than their lc8.

Those frames just lend themselves to cafe racers IMO.

Also nice but I like the SD based one more (+ I have an SD already so I'm half way there)

That could be an option for Superdan's poorly Tuono.

The rebuild (again) is well underway

To the engine guy and for a frame alignment check over the next two weeks while I wait for spares. Some very kind peeps have donated parts on the forum, top guys.

Maybe, just maybe ready for Portimao if the parts arrive in time.

Except there's absolutely nothing "70s" about it ... Squint when looking at it, and "Spirit of the 80s" might apply ...

Anyway, all just anime to me - prefer to see builds than comic-book fantasies.

You're right guys.

Doing photoshop concepts is a million miles from a real build. They are just that, a visual fantasy, a glimpse into what is possible. It's pointless arguing about the volume of exhaust noise or how some suspension set up might perform based on a visual. Get real!!!

The point of concepts like this is that you create a dream or aspiration of what you want to build and then as you actually do it things get modified/compromised to create the real thing. That's what design is like.

Looks better than the V4 Toohomo (what doesnt?) but worse than an RSV4. Dont think you could put mandlebars on it without it looking odd (er) I'm out.

I would really love to see one of the poncy, beardy, jeans wearing, coffee drinking, manbag toting, metrosexuals ride it though.

Picture the scene as the shoreditch cunt gives it a limp wristfull and heads for the horizon totally out of control, eyeballs glued to inside of his Scott goggles and ZZ Top mouth minge flap in the breeze. For a couple of yards at least before he grabs a floppy handshake full of Brembo M4 radial caliper and ejects from the fashion victim cycle, piss pot lid first, towards the Arse Cafe window.

I would pay good money to watch that.

pmsl

You do paint a picture Luke.

I like it. I want to be a hipster. Do I have to ride the Metro or can I just get a Knackered old R90? Manbags are big in Mexico and moto's are little.

There is such a resurgence in interest in the Norton/Triumph myth. Shoreditch is full of green Triumph scramblers and guys in open face helmets with pretentious to be something they are not.

Did you know that you can now buy a Bellstaff jacket that has mud splashes printed onto the material so you can look like you've been on the road without getting dirty. I kid you not.