Fifty1
New Member
5/6/14
as of 4/22/14
Building/modifying my first bike!!
I have really liked the idea of having a bike for a while but in my area its harleys and sportbikes, neither of which I care for much.. you just dont see cafe style bikes around here, so for the longest time I was oblivious to the whole cafe racer scene. So a year ago I really started to take notice of all the cool cafe bikes on the net, and last summer I picked out my first.. an 82 honda cb125s got it for 600 in Michigan with only 900 miles on it!
Ill let the pictures do most of the talking...
here it is just as I bought it
Some shots of it with all the crap stripped off and the handlebars flipped just to get the feel of lower bars
Here are some more recent shots, just trying to mock up a stace for it.. I think it looks good with the rear sitting up high
so far the only real mod is the tarozzi clip-ons
Now the part where I could use some advice and some help.. how to get the bike to sit that high in the back? because the swingarm (for mock up purpose only) is mounted in a lower hole in the frame and not in the actual pivot hole.
The swing arm in its stock form will not angle down far enough without hitting the frame so my first thought is maybe a swing arm swap?
second problem, dual side mounted shocks to lift it that high might look dumb, so maybe a monoshock conversion would work?
the swingarm pivot mount is almost exactly 6.5 inches wide. Does anyone know of a monoshock swingarm that measures 6.5 inches wide at the pivot?
thanks for looking, feedback and advice is is very much appreciated, this is my first attempt at a bike and maybe there are some things to avoid??
as of 4/22/14
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Building/modifying my first bike!!
I have really liked the idea of having a bike for a while but in my area its harleys and sportbikes, neither of which I care for much.. you just dont see cafe style bikes around here, so for the longest time I was oblivious to the whole cafe racer scene. So a year ago I really started to take notice of all the cool cafe bikes on the net, and last summer I picked out my first.. an 82 honda cb125s got it for 600 in Michigan with only 900 miles on it!
Ill let the pictures do most of the talking...
here it is just as I bought it
![blue+cb125.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-zTSfhyebj34%2FUT6gaPdUKVI%2FAAAAAAAAAG8%2Fj8cxUMQvnLM%2Fs600%2Fblue%2Bcb125.jpg&hash=1998c0710ad883585ad55b7d9dd020c1)
Some shots of it with all the crap stripped off and the handlebars flipped just to get the feel of lower bars
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Here are some more recent shots, just trying to mock up a stace for it.. I think it looks good with the rear sitting up high
so far the only real mod is the tarozzi clip-ons
![IMAG0659.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-7kGP_594qiE%2FUT6gS_goK_I%2FAAAAAAAAAFs%2FxQCEQmlKyiM%2Fs1091%2FIMAG0659.jpg&hash=8eaabec699a2856fa584255a6ebecc0f)
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Now the part where I could use some advice and some help.. how to get the bike to sit that high in the back? because the swingarm (for mock up purpose only) is mounted in a lower hole in the frame and not in the actual pivot hole.
The swing arm in its stock form will not angle down far enough without hitting the frame so my first thought is maybe a swing arm swap?
second problem, dual side mounted shocks to lift it that high might look dumb, so maybe a monoshock conversion would work?
the swingarm pivot mount is almost exactly 6.5 inches wide. Does anyone know of a monoshock swingarm that measures 6.5 inches wide at the pivot?
thanks for looking, feedback and advice is is very much appreciated, this is my first attempt at a bike and maybe there are some things to avoid??