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Orcade-Ian:
A rock and a hard place then,
I realise his Dad will not know, but I think I would respect his wishes and not sell, but if he is insistent on that particular bike being cafe'd, then implore him not to sell the standard bits he removes and not chop lumps out of anything.  These bikes in that condition are on the up as everyone on this forum knows and parts are getting more difficult but if those apparently unwanted bits are moved on (even if we would love to buy them!) they will be difficult to come by if a change of plan emerges.  I'm not claiming the moral high ground here, we all did this in the 60's with now priceless Brit stuff.
Ian

Chris400F:
Does he want to café it or does he want to just because his Dad did?
By all means keep the bike but if the current owner would prefer it in standard form then keep it that way - he will still have his Dad's bike.

I have sort of had this dilemma myself. I inherited my late father's 1956 BMW R50 which he had owned since about 1976.
I had every intention of keeping it but realised it really wasn't my type of bike, so sold it and bought the 400/4 that I had always wanted.
No regrets, but I thought about it a lot before doing the deed.

dieffe:
What I am going to do is keep everything that is not needed and make everything I do reversible just in case.
It would be sacrilege to wreck such a good bike and I am hoping to convince him to have his café racer for a while until he gets fed up with it and then restore it back to original.

Orcade-Ian:
Hopefully, everyone's a winner that way,
Ian

dieffe:
Progress is slow but steady. I am zinc plating all the bolts that I can to save having to replace them but it is quite time consuming. (fun though)

The pics are crap again, sorry.

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