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mikelhsr1982 Full Member Offline Who turned up the heat Posts: 150 WV Gender:	another cool bobber 06/11/10 at 09:02:11 I thought this was a good looking bike.
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: another cool bobber Reply #1 - 06/11/10 at 10:33:18 It's eather a good looking bike or it's a bobber,make up your mind please.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: another cool bobber Reply #2 - 06/11/10 at 11:35:21 It's a good looking bobber definitelly!
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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: another cool bobber Reply #3 - 06/11/10 at 11:57:58 I like the pipe, the high headlamp and the tool roll. Clive W
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: another cool bobber Reply #4 - 06/11/10 at 12:04:04 Well a bobber aint a car,duh.Last I knew a bobber was a derivative of a bike. I guess a cafe style isn't a bike.It's either a cafe or a bike?
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Re: another cool bobber
Reply #5 - 06/11/10 at 12:07:58

Im not diggin the zaust pipe. Maybe if the fork was symetrically done, so that the high & low sides were above & below the main header Id like it better. Its artsy, but kinda fartsy, IMO. The neck down looks odd to my eye. Maybe if the header came back at one diameter & then forked into 2 smaller pipes it wouldnt make my eye go "Huhh".
Otherwise, as bobbers go, its a nice lookin thang. Just couldnt ride something w/ no front fender. Too much dirt & stuff in the roads out here. It'd be a miserable ride.

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Re: another cool bobber
Reply #6 - 06/11/10 at 12:35:19

Demin wrote on 06/11/10 at 12:04:04:

Well a bobber aint a car,duh.Last I knew a bobber was a derivative of a bike.
I guess a cafe style isn't a bike.It's either a cafe or a bike?

that's true, a stock savage is a bike ,a stock BSA Gold Star is a stock cafe racer. A bobber is something you do to a bike for no reason, it doesn't go any better, it definatly does not handle any better, and it looks bloody awful.
But as you all keep saying "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder" I guess thats true,otherwise there would never be a bobber.
Cafe style has been around since the 50s how about bobbers.?

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Reply #7 - 06/11/10 at 13:00:08

There were lots of things around in the 50's... Lots of things have gone and been replaced by something better. But if I were a betting man, I'd say the bobber predates the cafe bike.

HD makes the cross-bones, a factory built bobber... So are they legit now? Can we consider them to be real bikes now? I think anyone who builds a bobber has "a reason". For HD, I'm sure it was out of public demand. I see a lot of them around, more so than any cafe.

This is a nice bobber, mostly. Really clean, cool headlight move & is that a scoop for the breather? I don't like the pipe at all. Looks like a limp thingy flopping in the wind... Not cool.

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Reply #8 - 06/11/10 at 13:44:40

mick wrote on 06/11/10 at 12:35:19:

... A bobber is something you do to a bike for no reason, it doesn't go any better, it definatly does not handle any better, and it looks bloody awful ....

You have your opinion, and you do not like bobbers, but the truth is that bobbers definately do faster and quicker and handle better.

Cafe bikes, just as Bobber bikes, take a stock bike and reduces weight. Cafe and Bobbers both keep the stock frame and riding. Different between Cafes and Bobbers is the lower seat and peg position of a Standard versus of a Cruiser.

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Re: another cool bobber
Reply #9 - 06/11/10 at 13:56:49

Jesus Christ,
the saying I used earlier was an old Churchill saying, While in Parliment one of his best sayings was to Bessy Bradock A member of the labor paty ,she said to Churchill " Sir Winston you are drunk" he said " yes miss Bradock I am,and you are ugly,tomorrow morning I will be sober".
the note I made about the bobber is on simular lines,if you don't see that then I'm sorry.
I am not supid ,I love all motor cycles ,I just love giving newbees a bad time,get over it earlytimz.

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earlytimz Senior Member Offline Savage model 417 (4 speed, 17mm) Posts: 382 BG, KY Gender:	Re: another cool bobber Reply #10 - 06/11/10 at 14:11:33 You sir, are drunk! (just saying) Sorry, I don't see it, so I guess you're sorry... Don't worry though, I'm already over it!
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jef.savage Serious Thumper Offline ridin' n slidin' Posts: 638 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: another cool bobber Reply #11 - 06/11/10 at 15:15:34 I got it. He wasn't saying a bobber isn't a bike, he was implying that a bobber isn't a good looking bike. The scoop/side cover is my favorite part. That upper exhaust pipe doesn't even look functional.
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BurnPgh Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1732	Re: another cool bobber Reply #12 - 06/12/10 at 00:54:47 I kind of think of bobbers as the 'merkan cafe racer. Stripped of everything unessential and made to go fast.
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Re: another cool bobber
Reply #13 - 06/12/10 at 09:45:11

I like it, yet is that seat comfy as looks like it needs more padding.
What I am questioning is does the seat have springs under it that we can't see? Or do the shocks make it comfy?

I let each ride and do what they want to their bikes. If I see one I like I will spend time looking it over. If it does not grab my attention even a lil I will keep walking.

I don't look twice at a man.. However at a bike, that is a different story. Hell I have almost broken my neck looking twice at a bike... Wink

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Re: another cool bobber
Reply #14 - 06/12/10 at 18:11:28

kimchris1 wrote on 06/12/10 at 09:45:11:

I like it, yet is that seat comfy as looks like it needs more padding.
What I am questioning is does the seat have springs under it that we can't see? Or do the shocks make it comfy?

I let each ride and do what they want to their bikes. If I see one I like I will spend time looking it over. If it does not grab my attention even a lil I will keep walking.

I don't look twice at a man.. However at a bike, that is a different story. Hell I have almost broken my neck looking twice at a bike... Wink

Hard to tell from this angle, but it is possible that the seat is sprung in the rear. As far as comfort goes, everyone's backside is different, but by moving it back what looks like 4-6 inches it has done the same as putting forward controls on it. I imagine moving the rider's weight back that far might have some effect on the handling though Undecided

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