and this one about a style of motorcycle that I love,
the Café Racer, low, and devoid of anything that makes it slower,
this is number 42, an Alfa Romeo Blue finished 1984 Le Mans III,
if you go to Germany and visit Hamburg and travel to a 330square metre warehouse in the canal-crossed
quarter of Wilhelmsburg, you will find the global utopia for custom
Moto Guzzi Motorcycles,
it is here that master builder Axel Budde from Kaffeemaschine builds these incredible custom machines,
number 42 handles better than the original out of the box 850 cc model thanks to a set of custom built Ikon
shocks which are fitted to the rear and the 35mm front forks have been rebuilt with
FACS dampers on the inside. The braking is drilled discs all around, with a
Kaffeemaschine rear bracket and a host of Brembo products and braided lines
employed for maximum stopping power,
the stock 850cc v-twin is now pumped out to a litre, with a
fully balanced bottom end and a custom Kaffeemaschine camshaft opening the
valves, with highly polished rocker covers, beautifully machined velocity
stacks and KM’s own full stainless exhaust system which has been chromed to
match the polished parts, and the electrics have been brought up to speed as
well, the ignition system is now all 21st. century, with a 410W
generator and tuneable electronic ignition, for the technical the number 42 numbers are: 1,000cc, 84bhp
and 184kg, what a beauty, would I like one? you bet!
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