What occurs while you chuck an S&S Cycle V-twin right into a café racer?
For reference, S&S are the fellows that manufacture Harley’s largest coronary heart (the two,340cc one), so once we heard Andrew Marsden had made a motorcycle twelve years in the past – after which spent the subsequent decade testing the factor – we knew Andy had a particular velocity beast on his arms.
“I began fascinated about constructing this bike in 2008 after I completed 17 years of racing on brief circuits and the Isle of Man,” recounts Andy in protection from BikeEXIF.
“I needed to construct a giant capability V-twin in a chassis with nimble dealing with, however with the look of an older Manx Norton race bike.”
The query, then, is that this: How does one make a nimble, highly effective V-twin café racer?
A part of the equation lies within the handcrafting of a high quality chassis. Right here, the bike’s body is predicated a bit off the Manx Norton’s featherbed unit, with rake and angle set to that of a Ducati 916 – all duties Andy apparently taught himself as he went alongside.
Different perks included the two-into-one system with a carbon muffler, a front-mounted oil tank, a Baker gearbox, and Belt Drives clutch / major drive parts.
Ducati 916 forks exhibit upgraded Okay-Tech internals, whereas a one-off Nitron shock attire the rear. For rolling obligation, the duo selected Marchesinis magnesium wheels, with a 916 single-sided swingarm and repurposed Ducati entrance fender lending further racing lineage.
After all, no bike construct can be full with no techy aficionado enjoying Deus Ex Machina; right here, that position is reserved for Pete Sutton, Andy’s bud and an engineering/fabrication specialist who dealt with the metal fabrication.
The ultimate end result wowed; Andy recollects how he and Pete took the bike to the Isle of Man:
“On one in all these [regular visitors to the Manx GP on the Isle of Man], we took the newly completed S&S Cycle café racer, and each time we pulled up, the bike was instantly surrounded by a crowd of admiring folks.”
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“I used to be usually requested if I needed to promote it, which after all I didn’t. This then become the query, ‘Are you constructing any extra?’”
“Such was the curiosity that we determined to just do that; Pete and I arrange a enterprise solely for this mission. The brand new firm is named Sutton & Marsden Café Racers, and we’re planning to construct a really restricted run to clients’ specs.”
The second machine – meant to be a purposeful mannequin of the ‘restricted run’ talked about above – is barely totally different than the OG bike however carries very comparable componentry, together with the “Koso clocks, Yamaha headlights, and small windshields to maintain the bugs at bay.”
Add names Acccossato, Renthal, and Brembo to the remainder of the elements checklist, and Sutton & Marsden Café Racers are actually on their approach to making top-tier customized bikes for the discerning public.
Superior job, guys.
