Rare & Unusual Motorcycles pt.2

[@swishswish386]

Loving your channel mate, I stumbled across you a few days ago… Interesting and relevant topics all presented in an engaging and very matter of fact “no bulls**t” manner … Brilliant 👍👍👍

[@motorcyclecafe]

Thank you buddy I really appreciate your comment, it truly means a lot because what you said is exactly what the purpose of the channel is all about. Cheers!

[@CaptHollister]

The Victory Vision Tour looks like a Flash Gordon futuristic view. It's a magnificent beast and might very well be the most comfortable motorcycle ever made.

[@sburns2421]

One of the very few touring bikes I would be interested in owning. I think it looks amazing

[@motorcyclecafe]

Yes the styling is way out there for sure! But I have no doubt it was indeed a great bike!

[@rosewood1]

Great video. What a superb collection of motorcycles. That BMW is stunning possibly the source of a few design elements of the R18. The Rune is simply magnificent. Interestingly I think the Japanese in the 70s really grabbed the market with some really stunning and powerful new machines. My 1975 Suzuki GT750 with its full roller bearing dry sump engine produces real power and stunning mid range torque. Thanks for the show

[@motorcyclecafe]

You are most welcome mate. I am glad you enjoyed the doco! Cheers and thanks for the great feedback.

[@simont1108]

Nice one, most of these bikes I'd never seen before but when I saw the Harley XLCR it took me right back to the 70's when I first saw one in a magazine and even though being a Triumph rider, and unimpressed by Harleys, that bike's looks made me impressed all of a sudden. Thanks for the memory hit.

[@motorcyclecafe]

you're welcome mate I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@simont1108]

@@motorcyclecafe Cheers.

[@simont1108]

Watched both episodes, again, nice one.

[@johnwood4448]

What do I think? 1950's Horex Imperator and the Adler Mb200 are quite simply beautiful motorcycles IMHO. Thanks for thw channel,great viewing😊

[@chrispulham4779]

Amazing!

[@rolsson4365]

Your stuff is great. Now a prenumeration is clicked.

[@WOLFIE-96B-UK]

Hi from Scotland, just found and subscribed to your channel. Awesome content. Informative and entertaining.👍

[@motorcyclecafe]

Great thanks mate! Love your channel name

[@joes6367]

Good set of videos. Glad you found the Harley Cafe racer, but you missed an even rarer bike. The Harley Davidson XR1000. There were only 1777 made between 83-84. It was the quickest and fastest Harley until the V-Rod.

[@motorcyclecafe]

Thanks buddy. You are 100% correct the XR was rarer it's just impossible to include them all. I have a list of around 10 other bikes which I could have included and now thanks to you the XR is on that list. Maybe for another video.

[@joes6367]

@@motorcyclecafe cool, if you want more on them I actually own one. It has I think the only option on it. Stainless Steel Supertrapps. When I found it, it had been sitting in a warehouse for 20 years. I got mine in 03 with 8 miles on it.

[@motorcyclecafe]

@@joes6367 8 MILES???? crikey! and thanks for the offer.

[@stevenleek1254]

Breathtaking selection!

[@motorcyclecafe]

Why thank you buddy! I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@johnhart2861]

I love this video. Thanks man!

[@motorcyclecafe]

Great! Thats good to hear, positive feedback means a lot buddy, thanks.

[@californiadreaming9216]

Hey Motorcycle Cafe !! Greetings from the Great White North 🍁 eh ? Well researched and extremely funny videos (I watched Part One also). Ripping stuff. Bang-up job, mate, thanks so much for sharing. Gotta tell ya...laughed until I cried when I saw Batgirl's bike. Imagine being a 250 lb club member and showing up at Sturgis on that thing? HA HA HA HA HA Seriously, though, I waited patiently for you to make mention of Suzuki's RE5... you didn't !! 1974 - 1976 500 cc Wankel (rotary) engine. 62 hp, 1/4 mile 14 sec, top speed 104 mph. Production? I don't know, but they are rare. Probably 3000 or less. In the 56 years I've been stomping around on this planet I've never seen one...only photos. Because of some eccentricities including it's unconventional sound and performance which was not stellar, it was not well received. I give it a thumbs up👍. For me it was bold, beautiful any dynamic. Oh well. Perhaps you'll discuss it in another video. Cheers.

[@motorcyclecafe]

Thanks buddy. I remember when the rotary Suzuki was released. I need to save some bikes for other videos though

[@fderbar1]

The most beautiful bike is a 1946 Jawa Perak

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

I have a 1973 JAWA PERWAK 250. Love the stream lineing of the engine and carburetor.

[@fderbar1]

@@frankmarkovcijr5459 I don't think they made Peraks by 1973....

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

@@fderbar1 Yes they did . The bike evolved around the engine. From plunger frame to swing arm frame. I saw an article about the bike in Classic Cycle magazine and my Beemer buddy got it from an estate sale. I just love the art- deco style of the motor with the blending of the carburetor. It looks so cool 😎. Old school rules new school 🤤 drools.

[@fderbar1]

@@frankmarkovcijr5459 no, I mean they had other models, Kyvachka, Californian, Oil master, my 1970 Panelka.....but the actual Perak wasn't made in the 70s. It ended in the 50s

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

@@fderbar1 I thought all the 250 's were called that. I know the engine is the same but in a different frame. Then what was it called in the 1970's? I just love the art-deco style of the engine. The way the streamlining blends the carburetor with the engine. Never rode it,it went straight into my collection. Can't afford to have too many on the road 🛣️. I'm glad I have it.

[@chrispulham4779]

Great video Digger

[@motorcyclecafe]

@@chrispulham4779 thank you!

[@niallsommerville9813]

Very enjoyable compilation. Was there a Candelabra option?

[@motorcyclecafe]

I assume you mean batgirls bike, most likely was 😉

[@niallsommerville9813]

@@motorcyclecafe Actually I was suggesting Liberace on the Vatican bike, though nothing would look out of place on the Batgirl bike.

[@theknifedude1881]

Liberace would have looked right at home on the Pope Scooter.

[@motorcyclecafe]

yep he sure would have!😂

[@canturgan]

That Norton looks like a Chopper bicycle. 😂

[@motorcyclecafe]

Yes I had a Malvern Star bicycle which looked similar

[@peterunderdown4374]

I agree, the papial guard would have looked ridiculousl never mind the clash of colour.

[@flatcapcaferacer]

I think if a rider could a low 12 second quarter mile on a Rune with it's weight with only 118 horsepower and torque then he would be real pro.

[@rolsson4365]

Interesting, but where are Laverdas, MVs, Moto Guzzis and my favorite Moto Morini? I have a few bikes, maybe my favourite is the Moto Morini Corsaro Veloce 1200 2010. Comfy, a looker and FAST, 199 kg 150 hps and 125 Nm. When on Dyno, the expert was shocked: 4900 rpm, 90 hps and 102 Nm! Smoth and nice to ride with proper setup but a "twist of the wrist" makes it a tyreburning, wheeleing riot of a bike. As a purist I love that there is no rider aids like ABS, traction control, rain mode etc. But who whould pay to get aids.......

[@motorcyclecafe]

MV's & Guzzi are covered in other docos on the channel. Sorry but as yet no Laverda's or Moto Morini's. I do agree with your comment about rider assistance, i dont need nor want those things myself.

[@tonegeerkins491]

How could you leave out the 93 Yamaha GTS1000???

[@motorcyclecafe]

I have not forgot about that bike mate.

[@terraplane49]

Love the BMW, but might I point out that Scott had tele forks before the first world war?

[@motorcyclecafe]

Did they really? I know Scott was really advanced but I did not know that and if it is the case (i dont doubt you are correct) its certainly not a well known fact. Thanks heaps mate I will look into it.

[@terraplane49]

@@motorcyclecafe ,if you look at Frank Phillip's TT machine, you can see them. They look a little like girders, so that may explain it.

[@peterwilliams2152]

​@@terraplane49 There were a few telescopic forks before BMW, Nimbus was another. BMW had the first hydraulically damped telescopic fork.

[@phillarsson8253]

All these strange creations must have been a huge cost to it's manufacturers. For example: imagine the design, producing and again designing all the moulds to eventually sell just a handful or worse: not even to make it to the production line...

[@motorcyclecafe]

Great point!

[@rustyturner431]

I've never ridden a Rune, but I did have a good look at one, on the showroom of the dealership I'd owned at one time. I thought it was interesting, and it looked better in person...VERY long, low and wide. Americans should have loved it but didn't prpobably because of the price (no matter how much Honda lost on each one). Since its predecessor, the Valkyrie, hadn't exactly set the market on fire, I never understood Honda's reasoning on the Rune. But I was a Honda dealer for years, and I spent much of that time not understanding Honda's reasoning.

[@motorcyclecafe]

The bike was a head turner for sure but certainly not for me.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

I so miss the use of cheesecake in the ads for selling motorcycles. All of the ads for the European motorcycles would have beautiful women especially the Italian and the British manufacturer. Norton was famous for the Norton girl who's like this adorned many a poster on a teenager's wall in the old days. Of course in the old days the motorcycles were as beautiful as the women sitting on them. Now the girls are still pretty but they're not in the ad and the motorcycles are ugly as Sin.

[@motorcyclecafe]

Well said mate !

[@rippn6124]

Temptation... Rula Lensca! FRAN DRESSLER IN A CROCHET BIKINI, FOLD OUT HONDA XL250 CYCLE MAG AD.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

The Batman music is too loud and I couldn't hear what you were saying.

[@jackwood2328]

Great research again. Although, any Harley-Davidson is better looking than that swoopy BMW R7. It's just a styling emulation (copy) of HD & Indian.

[@motorcyclecafe]

Thanks mate!