2014 UPDATES-

new look for 2014- new ali seat- new tyres-paint job

ali seat unit fitted

seat unit custom made by DTR Panel craft Devon (thanks Dave)

new paint including black line finished with gold pinstripe to match seat unit

Paintwork by Otto Racs (Baldock, Herts) thanks Otto.

looking pretty in the sunshine !

2014 updates to bike

2014 updates
New hand made Ali seat unit + tool box !

Guzzi Racers

Apart from the Cafe Racer scene that seems to be spreading the word about modifying bikes at the moment and seems to have huge momentum around the world, the Classic racer scene is also growing and some really lovely examples of Guzzi Racers have emerged over the past few years that are worthy of a look.
My friend Andy Gray races a highly modded Mk3 Le mans and sent me the some pics of its latest incarnation complete with bottom frame removed.
But also a few other pics of Guzzi Racers gleaned from the interweb that caught my eye recently and so I though it would be a good idea to put them in one place.


                                                             Spa Classic

Andy Gray and a very purposeful looking Mk 3 with some very pretty Astralites !

Guzzi Motobox.com provides these beautiful classic Guzzi Racers.

HT Moto the Classic Guzzi Racer that started my road to Guzzi bike building !

Mallory Park Festival of 1000 bikes 2012

• So which way round does this circuit go ?
  

A brace of Guzzi cafe's

Well we can all dream hey !

Ace Cafe Cafe Racer day June 2012

Found some fellow bike enthusiasts in london and they run this web site called "The Bike Shed.cc"

http://thebikeshed.cc/2012/05/08/nicks-mk-ii-lemans/

check out some of the amazing bikes featured

Cheers Dutch !

Well its April 2012 and today has just seen the 20,000th visitor to the GuzziCafe blog site, thanks to everyone that's taken the time to have a look and the kind comments, hope the blog has been useful to other cafe builders and as so many new bikes keep appearing on the web these days, there is no doubt that the Cafe scene is alive and well.
The bike has now covered over 1200 fault free miles and has been great fun to ride.
heres a few of the other Cafe Guzzis that have appeared recently on the web.

 

 Just a few shots of the Guzzi at the recent Motorcycle Live at the NEC where it was one of the Twelve finalists of the Carole Nash BGBT competition.
An old mate,  Gary,  transported the bike to and from the show, for me and deserves credit for delivering the bike safely. If you ever need Suzuki spares or a great mechanic, or just a bike moving, Gary is here (gary@ghurd.orangehome.co.uk)
The standard of the other bikes was breathtaking and I felt quite humble to be in the 12 finalists for this year and have 5 mins of fame ;)

The bike was never built to win awards or be shown, it was built to ride and enjoy, which I will now do................a lot   !

Cafe Le Mans 2011

BGBT NEC 2011

Matt Machine Video

This is a great video from Matt ,
hope I've copied this right, it looks awesome, I want to move there and build bikes !

http://vimeo.com/30586946

First vid of the bike up and running

Guzzi Cafe Racer build: HT Moto Cafe Racer

Guzzi Cafe Racer build: HT Moto Cafe Racerhttp://www.htmoto.de/index.php?p=startpage&l=en

Final 12, Bike featured at NEC show 2011

Cant quite believe this but the bike has made the final of the Carole Nash Competition 2011 and they have asked that the bike is displayed with the other 11 finalists at the NEC bike show this November.
here is a link to the Carole Nash site http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.264562623564090.63035.113533372000350

Thanks to all the people that helped me to get the bike together and to supply the quality of parts that makes the bike what it is.
See you at the NEC show in November !
 

MCN feature bike

Tomorrows edition of Motorcycle News has at last arrived and I can post up some of the studio pics they took a couple of weeks ago.
Its the first time anything of mine has featured anywhere in  a publication and really nice compliment for the bike that they wanted to see it.