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I have been working on this too long but this year has not been good. Been working on my DIY tank today with much going on this year I'm only just getting back into it. Still need finish the underside, fuel cap, level sender, oem petcock and mountings. The front part is going to be the air...

I have converted my bike to a single 41mm Fish carburettor in place of 2x 39mm Mikuni carbs. and first dyno run was pretty good except for rick idle and part throttle, WOT wasn't bad for first go. Great torque better than stock and only 2hp down at peak and no big drop off even at the rev...

Since I am always tinkering, I what a better to release and refit the front of the tank. The tank has a hinge at the back and 2 x 6mm bolts holding the front down to the frame. I am interested in what others have done. I am thinking of drilling out the thread and fitting these.

I usually set stuff together, stand back and squint and take my best shot. But with the cafe racer build I'm doing, it just seems a bit harder to imagine the new tank, mufflers, Paint scheme etc. there must be a good tool out there but it will be all new to me. Can others share what they are...

I bought some Chinese rear sets for my sv 650. They where not to bad specially for the price I needed to rework the gear shift linkage and and could not workout the brake switch,but I got it all working and am happy with it. The only thing I am thinking of changing is fitting some spring...

Still working on the rear frame for my sv650 cafe racer. plans keep changing, the lithium battery which blew up was going in the tail. Due to budget I will run the gel battery that was in the bike when I got it. so electrics in the tail and battery on its side hard up under the seat (about 50mm...

Quite round town not so quite wot Still playing with my muffler. with 3 discs noise was about 92 dba at 4500rpm (94 being legal limit) but after a day of riding the noise dropped more it lost power and the front pipe when blue. so i tried 5 discs again (too loud) so not wanting a repeat problem...

At this point about 4 hrs of work on the plug I will use to make a fiberglass mould. So far i have used Some old timber slats (pre warped with slighht curve) thick card board peace of 3mm ply i snapped in peaces (for front curve about...

Dispite being a budget build I am keen to make this a great bike to ride and to look at. Already fixed the road worthy bits, and today trial fitted the clip ons and mirror, thinking of keeping the old risers to mount my G Tech RR for performance testing

Early days on my project, but thought I would share some pictures of the stands I put together to help me work on my Bike. Made mostly from metal I had around and a golf bag trolly for the triple stand. total cost under $100 mostly on rattle cans. Center stand utilizes a spare hole cast on the...

Hi, I'm not a young fella but I've been round coustom vehicles all my life. So I was keen to do a cafe racer build some thing I havn't done before. My bike of choice honda cb750, was out of my budget, although I was looking and had a plan, but as it happened I was doing a job at a work shop and...