From Trail to Tarmac - Vida Bandida Honda Tornado
As I'm typing this I find myself thinking that it actually makes a lot of sense to use a trail bike as the basis for a cafe racer build. They?re light, lack complicated electrics and are geared for good fun, yet they are often overlooked. This is undoubtedly because it takes a fair whack of work and a good eye to transform a trail bike into a motorcycle that?s worthy of being considered a café racer.
Antonio Lupiañez and Salvador Alasino of Vida Bandida motorcycles are two Argentinian Industrial Designers who devote their spare time to modifying motorcycles. As a personal project, they decided to build a café racer using something other than the ?go to? 70s and 80s Japanese motorcycles. They wanted to show their customers that not all builds had to be based on tired old donors and the bike they chose for the challenge was Honda?s 250cc trail bike, the Tornado. CONTINUE READING »
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