I just came back from London and took some pics of this customized Xbones at Warr's H-D. It is styled as a Cafe type bike with footboards. What caught my attention was the tank and bars. Some of the details such as the brass pegs and controls are kinda neat. I think the exhaust is pretty cool. Some other things, such as the aluminum plates look neat at first glance, but upon further review are a bit superfluous IMHO. It was built by Warr's in house custom shop, King's Road Customs. The guy I spoke with didn't know much about it and pointed me to the web site for more info but I wasn't able to find it there.
Priced at 35,000 British Pounds.

 

I love cafe racers, and I love the general idea with this one, but I am not sure a Softail is best platform to call it a "cafe racer". The springer front end is DEFINITELY not the right forks. And close t $60000 is downright ridiculous.

 

I agree. Cafe is the only thing that comes to mind. I do like the look for the most part though. I have seen far worse style exercises done to a Softail.

 

I've been looking into various cafe and "pro-street" configurations for about ten years now (have a sportbike and drag racing background), and I honestly think the configuration you have posted is a little lame for either one. First off, there's no way you could corner that thing beyond "duckwalking" speed without scraping footboards and exhaust.
One step in a better direction would be to put rear sets on a softail. But I haven't figured out a way to do it yet which doesn't compromise cornering clearance. With the low seating position, you're going to drag heels (forward controls) or toes (rear controls). Unless your knees bend a lot more than mine do.

Looking at acceleration only, try getting your left foot up to shift to second with forward controls on a really fast bike. Both of my current bikes have forward controls, but if I was looking at a quarter mile ET of 12 seconds or less, they'd probably need to go.

 

I like the look. Not sure I would have kept the footboards, mid mounted pegs would add to the café look.

 

[QUOTE=NDBadlands4-2;11917638]I like the look. Not sure I would have kept the footboards, mid mounted pegs would add to the café look.[/QU

Couldn't agree more.

 

This is a cafe bike, I built this from a 1980 XS 650.

 

[QUOTE=QC;11916370]I just came back from London and took some pics of this customized Xbones at Warr's H-D. It is styled as a Cafe type bike with footboards. What caught my attention was the tank and bars. Some of the details such as the brass pegs and controls are kinda neat. I think the exhaust is pretty cool. Some other things, such as the aluminum plates look neat at first glance, but upon further review are a bit superfluous IMHO. It was built by Warr's in house custom shop, King's Road Customs. The guy I spoke with didn't know much about it and pointed me to the web site for more info but I wasn't able to find it there.
Priced at 35,000 British Pounds.
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There's some really nice gear on it, but it doesn't come together for me

 

Truely a diff look for the bones, and some great work and thought went in to it, but thinking $60k is over the top . Might be a good show bike over there.??

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Nice, this is my favorite cafe bike ( 1976 CB750 F)