Cafe Racer Magazine Readers Ride-In Bike Show 2106

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:52 pm

Cafe Racer Magazine had their annual Readers Ride-In Bike Show today.
Was at a park near their headquarters in Sewickley, PA, which is a few miles west of Pittsburgh.

Turnout probably was a little down because of the rain & heat.
We got wet on the way home. RedZone/GT550 ran fine but the T500 broke down near home. Got the T500 home with problem TBD.

Pics of the entered bikes:

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:53 pm

Last but not least, Suzukis owned by forum members.

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:52 pm

Found some links to a few of the winners.

People’s Choice and Best Japanese Cafe awards: Andrew Frederick’s seafoam green 1973 CB 350 Honda:

Best in Show: Tyler Stepp’s all-white 1974 CB 360 Honda:

Wildest Engineering: Virginian Sean Skinner’s Yamaha Virago:

http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2016/08/17/9th ... w-winners/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/263343600392002/

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:35 pm

Just got the October/November issue of Cafe Racer magazine. Its has the ride-in bike show article.

Forum member desmocat / Shoemake Vintage won 2nd place for wildest engineering. Congrats.

The magazine pic is similar to mine show above & here:

The two bikes we took were also shown: Redzone & my T500.

The magazine pic is similar to mine show above & here:

Post by **Alan H** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:02 pm

Very nice. I think the date may be slightly out though.
It grates that I understand though as I seem to speak the same language!

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:38 pm

Oops. 2106 vs. 2016 — I can’t blame this typo on auto spell correction.

jabcb · Post by **jabcb** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:52 pm

The Photobucket policy change trashed the pics. I moved the pics over to Flickr & am reposting them.

Cafe Racer Magazine had their annual Readers Ride-In Bike Show in August 2016.
Was at a park near their headquarters in Sewickley, PA, which is a few miles west of Pittsburgh.

Turnout probably was a little down because of the rain & heat.
We got wet on the way home. RedZone/GT550 ran fine but the T500 broke down near home. Got the T500 home with problem TBD.
(Update: I think the T500 died because the pod filters got soaked in a downpour. Compression was low so we did a top end rebuild with oversize pistons & all is good.)

Pics of the entered bikes:

CRM_2016-08-13_0250 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0252 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0254 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0256 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0257 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0259 by jabcb, on Flickr

CRM_2016-08-13_0261 by jabcb, on Flickr