I buy the gets lots of looks not the compliment part. https://orlando.craigslist.org/mpo/d/orlando-1980-honda-cx-500-cafe-racer/7264259742.html
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I'd walk rather than ride that monstrosity. :rant-1: :bang:
Cool looking motor, but horrible finish with the back end.
They can be made really nice though.
I'm surprised it doesn't have one of those f*****g brown 2x6 seats that are the current rage among " hipster" builders..................................................D
I've wanted a CX650 to cafe for quite some time now. I agree with rodneya that they can be made to look extremely sweet. I'm sure they sound as good as they look too. Kind of poor man's Guzzi, in my opinion.
The rear end on these never looks right unless someone just hacks it off.
I've always liked the looks of the engine.
That thing is awful 🤮🤮🤮
I'm not gonna look. Had a CX650C very briefly, before I turned it. Shall we say...:"uninspiring"?
Holy hell, that's hideous.
great mule motorcycle if left stock to use for daily transport in the rain while in college of post divorce and you lost the car, maybe . uninspiring is an understatement.
The biggest problem with this bike and many other cafe project bikes that I see is the price... The original concept of these was to make them cooler than original on a budget. I wouldn't mind this bike if it was at the $500-$1000 that a 1980 CX500 is worth. Then you would have the chance to actually make it cool by fixing the ugly rear and the height at the front.
Removing stuff, calling dime city and spray paint just doesn't make a bike worth $5K
All else aside, That geometry can't possibly work well.
friend of mine actually won a cx650 cafe. looked good but from 5 feet, was put together fairly well. I actually know the guy who built it and actually worked on it a bit for him years ago. looked 3x as good as this bike in the ad, Jimmy struggled to get 3500 out of it when he sold it after he won it. (after the original builder tried getting 4500 and had -zero- bites) Jimmy did donate the $ to the DGR as that's where he won the bike at the raffle. But he had high hopes... then loathed it. and he essentially paid 10 bucks for it. if that's not a testament to the CX cafe , nothing is. they are turds.
I've seen a few cool looking CX builds in the past, that's definitely not one of them
here it is with the original builder, erik
On a related note a odd corporate decision, once again showing for individuals and corporations just because you can does not mean you should. https://orlando.craigslist.org/mcd/d/sanford-1982-honda-cx-500-turbo/7251028966.html I wonder if they are getting that much for them, is a good example.
Quote from: RDFL on January 20, 2021, 04:11:24 PM
I wonder if they are getting that much for them, is a good example.
Apparently not, that ad has been up for a month already
The four strokes don't demand stupid high prices like so many of the 2Ts. I can buy GoldWings in good shape for less than $2000 US. And they will go for a couple hundred thousand miles with minimal maintenance. CX is kind of a mini GoldWing (some even marketed as SilverWings). They had a few base problems easily fixed, and could do well over 100k miles. The cafe guys seem to really like them since CBs started getting scarce.