Maybe part of the Kudos of the cafe racer is that frame is made from 531 tubing.
If you go back to the earliest café racers,it probably was the best material available. Now it's there for the hipster points :-)
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If you go back to the earliest café racers,it probably was the best material available. Now it's there for the hipster points :-)