{"id":54,"date":"2011-06-03T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/207.36.117.28\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:23:00","slug":"bobs-complete-cafe-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denniskirk.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/bobs-complete-cafe-racer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Complete Cafe Racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, we introduced you to a little Honda CB750 that our President here at Dennis Kirk, Bob Behan, was converting into a cafe racer.\u00a0He\u2019s worked on it for months, designing, fabricating, assembling\u2026 and the bike is now complete, so we are back to show you photos of his finished build! We have to say, he did a fantastic job, and all for just $2,500. (But we might be a little biased.) \ud83d\ude42 You can weigh in at the end of this post and let us know what you think in the comments. Here\u2019s the result of Bob\u2019s labor of love:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lm87q486dT1qai5g3.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lm87qeAJKB1qai5g3.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lm87qnVBYa1qai5g3.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s sure come a long way since this photo was taken:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lm87sabr4b1qai5g3.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a video that Bob put together of the whole process:<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think of Bob\u2019s new cafe racer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, we introduced you to a little Honda CB750 that our President here at Dennis Kirk, Bob Behan, was converting into a cafe&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denniskirk.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/bobs-complete-cafe-racer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-motorcycle-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - 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