The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: lee_harvey on January 14, 2010, 09:54:57 AM
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new member here. fixing to get my r65 next month and i already have plans on making it a cafe racer. ill be uploading pics tonite of its current status so we can have a before and after comparison.
Lee
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Welcome Lee, where abouts do you call home ?
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Welcome Lee!! Steve Hawkins here on this forum will be your man for a cafe style!
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Welcome Lee, where abouts do you call home ?
arlington TX, ive seen that i have a few r65 folks in neighboring cities.
hopefully we'll get together and have a ride.
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Welcome aboard Lee.My plans are the same,so it is gonna be great to have somebody ready to chop his bike ;D
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Welcome Lee, where abouts do you call home ?
arlington TX, ive seen that i have a few r65 folks in neighboring cities.
hopefully we'll get together and have a ride.
You have some on your doorstep welcome to the forum...
Lou
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Lee Harvey... Are you kidding? In Texas, yet! Bet you get some "winks" when you intro yourself at the local watering hole. Last name wouldn't be Oswald, would it?
So. Welcome to the funny farm. A number of R65ers in the MetroMess, myownself included.
Monte
Denton TX
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Lee Harvey... Are you kidding? In Texas, yet! Bet you get some "winks" when you intro yourself at the local watering hole. Last name wouldn't be Oswald, would it?
So. Welcome to the funny farm. A number of R65ers in the MetroMess, myownself included.
Monte
Denton TX
nope, no kin to the lone gunman. people started calling me that in high school and it just kinda carried over to the forums.
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L.H., we're practically neighbors. I still keep a house in Arlington, home of the Boss Hawg Bowl, but Mrs. Phorqs said I had to move in with her in Bedford when we jumped the broom last year. My son, Earl Phorqs, has my R65 and still lives in my house over by Randol Mill Park.
While I can't hold a mechanical candle to most of the folks on this forum, I'm probably good for a Shiner Bock and some moral support. We'll try to get Monte to amble this way some time. He still owes Justin a bag of sand so he might get this way one of these days. ;D
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Howdy neighbor..... welcome to the clan......looking forward to the pictures!! I do love to see old machines conjured back to the living. Do love the cafe racers!
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Welcome mate [smiley=thumbsup.gif]..cant wait to see the pics...hope your cafe racer turns out awesome, bloody love cafe boxers..
have you checked out this site?
http://www.rockerboxer.com/garage.html
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I can also bore you to death about Cafe Racer's if required.
There are many styles, but I hope you want to do more than fit Euro bars.
Here is a link as to how it first came about:
http://www.randybozarth.com/gallery/stevehawkins/
There are other pictures in the gallery , but here goes:
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Welcome to the forum.
As you can see, Steve is the man when it comes to styling café racers. That little red one is a real beauty although I prefer the more sedate RS modification.
greetings from a white and cold north with lots of snow and deplorable riding conditions. (I am really longing for dry roads and warmer weather)
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Say, that rockerboxer website listed above has some really wild bikes!!! :o
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Steve Hawkins, what type of muffler do you have on your cafe racer? How do they sound and is there any performance improvement?
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Nice red bike.
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Welcome Lee! There are enough Texans on here to hold a rally... 8-)
Steve, I never tire of seeing that beautiful red bike! ;D
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The pipes are a set from a UK firm called Armours - they are a BSA style. Armours will make a bespoke pipe for you or adapt a pipe for one bike to fit another. You just got to know what you want and make sure they do as well.
They sound great.
Not sure of a performance improvement though. In fact, combined the pod air filters are definately not....Although I have a healthy mid range with no flat spots, I fear that the top and has been affected a little bit. Its still running standard jets
It has never been near a rolling road dynamometer, but the plug colour is good.
But who cares - 100mph = instant driving ban in the UK.
Here is another Armours set (reverse cone meggas) on my R100.
Cheers
Steve Hawkins
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From what I can tell on their website, Armours can also supply stock R65 pipes and silencers in Stainless. I've never heard of anyone using them even though the prices look very competitive compared to other suppliers.
It's good to know there is another alternative.
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My R65 Cafe Racer originally had an Armours set of standard looking stainless silencers.
There were good, probably a little more fruity than BMW originals, but ultimately not the look I wanted for the Cafe Racer, so I sold them on.
They were on the bike when I first completed it. See the link above.
It seems that virtually every exhaust they stock, you can order in Stainless or Chrome plated. I would not sniff at the Chrome plated examples (both my bikes run chrome plated exhausts currently), as the plating is thick and of high quality.
I would not be so keen on the headers though, as my bike originally also had stainless steel headers, but I could never get them to seat correctly and always had an air leak on the left hand cylinder - left header probably cut too short. The headers were unmarked so might not even have been supplied by them, but it is too much of a coincidence. Since they were fitted by a previous owner I did not have much recourse.
However they are competively priced and otherwise good quality. I would give them a go, but be ready to send back any headers if there were fit issues. Forwarned is forarmed.
They also do a 2 into 1 for the larger airheads
Cheers
Steve H
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From what I can tell on their website, Armours can also supply stock R65 pipes and silencers in Stainless. I've never heard of anyone using them even though the prices look very competitive compared to other suppliers.
It's good to know there is another alternative.
Can someone post a link please ....i cannot find the site ???
Lou
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This will download the catalogue Lou.
http://homepage.mac.com/armours/.Public/MasterCatalogue.pdf
and this is the home page
http://web.mac.com/Armours/Armours/Home.html
and this is the 3 page price list
http://homepage.mac.com/armours/.Public/pl-1of3.pdf
http://homepage.mac.com/armours/.Public/pl-2of3.pdf
http://homepage.mac.com/armours/.Public/pl-3of3.pdf
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I can also bore you to death about Cafe Racer's if required.
Thanks Barry
Do any of them have a "Rev Light" ??
Lou
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Steve, Was the photo of the R100 taken onboard the IoM ferry? Monte
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No, it was taken whilst travelling to France on the channel tunnel...... So at the time I was travelling at some considerable speed, on a train, underneath the English Channel!
Sounds weird when you think about it :D
Lucky Lou - Stop stirring up trouble. Who needs a rev light?
Steve Hawkins
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I can also bore you to death about Cafe Racer's if required.
but I hope you want to do more than fit Euro bars.
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ya, first on my list is get everything painted in flat black, then switch the bars that are on it now back to the originals or get some that sit slightly lower, then do a single seat conversion. Then ill just think about whats next. Not sure about exhausts tho, i kinda like the ones that look like an old musket, you know, flared out at the end.
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Lucky Lou - Stop stirring up trouble. Who needs a rev light?
Steve Hawkins
I have no idea what you mean [smiley=rolleyes.gif] [smiley=rolleyes.gif] [smiley=lolk.gif]
Lou
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well, the r65 is in my garage...finally. i took off the UGLY (to me) fairing and the side and rear luggage racks. the luggage racks are a brand called Krauser. i will be posting pics tonite when i get home so if anyone is interested in them, i'm sure something can be worked out.
also, i heard from Bruce(boxers by Bruce) that from 85 on BMW went with the single fork swingarm for the rear. anyone know if one of these will "bolt on" to the r65, or will it take more time/money than its worth? i think they look very cool.
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The 'monoshock' R65, had the same frame as the larger displacement bikes, so I would be quite surprised, if it would be a 'plug and play' type installation .
Then there's that issue of only one shock absorber to modify the twin shock frame to accept .