Showing posts with label cafe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cafe. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2013
The Cafe Racer from T M Choppers


I got the link of T.M. Choppers through a link in my friend Sebestians blog. There is no link in the blog itself, but if someone does such wonderful job, its not very difficult to track anything these days, thanks to the net. Looking at the bike, I thought T. M. Choppers must be a group of hardcore HD guys in the U.S. But I was very pleasently surprised.


When I saw .ee in the web address, I really thought hard that what can ee mean? I mean, other then .com, .net and .org, the others usually used are according to the countries, like .in (for India), .jp (for Japan), .za (for South Africa) and like wise. Little did I wonder that .ee meant Estonia. I am sure you have heard about Estonia and the name sounds as one of those countries which fragmented from USSR in the early 90s. Well, it is, and it is near to Finland and Sweden in the Baltic region.


Okay, T. M. Choppers concentrates only in HDs and of course Buell. They are into choppers and drag racers. This was the only Cafe Racer featured in the website and although there was no associated text, it looked good :-) and fit to post. Cmon, its a Cafe Racer! They dont make the accessories like exhausts themselves but has a lot of friends for out sourcing, mainly Europe & U.S. They are also into HD purchase and sales and of course, repairs & servicing too.


With a decade of collective experience under them, every product they make bears a stamp of top class quality product and they have been featured in many shows and mags. According to their website, the current fastest V-twin in Estonia was built and owned by one of their own mechanics. If you would like to contact Toomas Köster or Marek Kose (the owners of T.M Choppers) you will find them here. Visit th T.M Choppers website and one more gallery featuring the bikes in Flickr.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
ROYAL ENFIELD CAFE RACER 2013 SPECIFICATIONS REVEALED
Royal Enfield Cafe Racer, which is from one of the leading bike manufacturers in India, made its first public appearance three years back at the 2010 Auto Expo, Delhi. With the testing prototypes are doing rounds, it looks like Royal Enfield is about to launch the much awaited bike soon. Some of the images hint that it has been christened as Royal Enfield Continental GT. The Royal Enfield fans would know that Royal Enfield had launched a bike back in 70s with a similar name Continental GT250, which also had typical cafe racer attributes with a fiber fuel tank.

2013 Royal Enfield Cafe Racer 535 Specifications:
Engine : 535cc
Maximum Power : 36 Bhp (Expected)
Gears : 5 Speed
Cooling Type : Air Cooling
Suspension(Front) : Telescopic Hydraulic
Suspension(Rear) : Twin Shock Absorbers
Brakes : Disc brake 280 mm front, 200mm rear
Speedometer : Analogue
Fuel Gauge : Analogue
Self Start : Yes
Tubeless : Yes
Step-up Seat : Yes
The Royal Enfield Cafe Racer will also be the first Royal Enfield bike to feature the newly developed 535cc, four-stroke, single-cylinder, fuel injected engine, which is claimed to develop a maximum power output of 36bhp. Royal Enfield Cafe Racer will also use a twin-spar tubular steel frame designed by Harris Engineering. The suspension has also been upgraded, which will now use telescopic forks upfront, and a set of gas-charged shock absorbers at the rear bolted onto an elliptical tube swingarm. The braking system will be equipped with the discs at both front and rear wheels. Additionally, Royal Enfield will offer a wide range of accessories like aluminium fenders instead of plastic, aluminium upper and lower triple brackets, two different exhaust systems, café and clubman handlebars.
Royal Enfield Cafe Racer is going to be launched in USA sometime in June-July, 2013. After the American launch, it will be launched in India by 2013-end and will be available as 2014 model. Keeping the Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500 pricing in mind, we are expecting the Cafe Racer to come around a price of Rs. 1.60 lakh.
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