18 years has flown by since I first started building bikes here in California and people remember the Black K5 Honda Cafe I created and for quite some time I had emails from customers informing me that they have had my bike as their screen saver at home or at work. I will never forget […]
A vintage motorcycle worth thousands has been torched after thieves issued a ransom to its owner. Brazen thieves demanded money from the owner of a 1951 Triumph Thunderbird after it was stolen from a garage in Clifton. Shamelessly bragging about being in possession of the bike on Instagram, the gang threatened to burn the bike – […]
Had a customer come in with an old 1975 Super sport, just wants a few little things changed so he can ride for a while and then sell it, these jobs sometimes can get out of hand as you are dealing with unknown history and previous issues. Knackered exhaust, no side covers JB Weld on […]
Happy Tuesday Everyone Fast approaching the 18 year Milestone here at Carpy’s Cafe Racers and have always enjoyed what I do here in Sunny California, and today is another great day and seeing as its Blog Tuesday, just wanted to than you all for purchasing from me and all the great emails and phone […]
Almost 18 years ago I used to have a readers rides page, showing peoples machines etc, and I thought I would start to feature that again. If you have a bike you would like to show the world, share it with us by emailing some sharp clean images of your Motorcycles and a description of […]
Happy Hump day folks. Sometimes, people ask me all sorts of question on the Motorcycles I work on, now, here is a superb explanation from Hot Bike, that clearly informs you as to the purpose of a Constant mesh Sequential gearbox and how they function. So there you go, today you may of picked up […]
Here we have a really Clean and well maintained Triumph T100 that is one of our Club members, it has only 4,500 lovingly used miles and this is a dialled in machine that you just fire up and go. No Bones about this bike, Tim put a lot of time. money and effort into making […]
Well, I have seen this footage before but cannot remember for the life of me if I have Blogged about it, thats old age catching up you see. I grew up with Motorcycles and many being just hand me downs or something I have managed to resurrect over time as I simply didn’t have the […]
The weekends seem to be busy but I managed to get some time to get out in the garage and first off I had to charge a new lithium Battery for Jennifers Triumph Bonneville, her old one was not holding its charge and over 2 years old, so- A new Lithium EarthX Battery was ordered […]
Well, I have always thought Kenneth Williams from the good old carry on Movies was such a character, here he is explaining about Thermo Coupling. Well, the weekend already but thought as I had unusual stuff on today’s quick Blog, I would add this. Hope that this weekend you enjoy your motorcycle, or at least […]
