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Hah I never got a chance to head out to SeAD unfortunately, so I must have missed you. I'll be doing pretty much every race this season given that they pretty much all are at RIT this year *facepalm*. I've looked over a 9-2x before, they are pretty nifty. It basically just seemed like a...

Re: KZ550 build thread. Gross Cafe! Totally saving those links... thanks Bruno. Sweet looking build thus far Six206! Now I need to look to see if I still have some of my old BMX pegs lying around...

As someone else posted, check other aspects of the electrical system. Does the lighting on the bike turn on with the key at all? If everything besides the starter system works electrically, then another good spot to check is the starter button itself. Spray it down with electrical contact...

Be cautious installing it, but yeah, it's can either go in place of a battery, or parallel with a battery. If you are putting it in parallel, you need to pre-charge the capacitor. Look around for car audio capacitor install guides to show you how to do that. It sounds like you are using it as a...

Old bikes are resistance based flashers - and old wiring harnesses can get corroded connectors that cause vastly different resistances, sometimes they even change resistance with the slightest vibration of the wires. Before you spend money on a new flasher, spent 3 bucks on a can of electronic...

Very good looking bike! Great attention to detail. While it sounds like it gets real hot where you are... I'm definitely jealous of your year round riding... It's just warming up enough now for me to think about getting the bike inspected and back on the road.

Not sure I'd ever feel comfortable doing 200+ on a motorcycle haha. Still sweet!

Rather than go for a true "aftermarket" brake lever, I went with simply a similar brake lever/Master cylinder off a more modern bike. In my case, I have an old CX500, but I put on the brake lever from a newer Honda sportbike that a guy wrecked. Obviously there wasn't a lot of science in my...

Just saw some of your posts over on Cx500forum, figured I would check out your build thread here. Very cool idea on the overflow container!

Re: Setbacks to your cafe projects? TIME! That, and indecision over major things, like where exactly to cut the frame.

If you mean something like the new Mustang's do, then there is lots of info online for how people have modded their older cars to duplicate the effect. Here is a circuit diagram, just a few caps, relays, and resistors. If you are using LED's instead of resistive lamps, you will probably need to...

Forgot to add this link: http://www.flashtechusa.com/what-is-kelvin.html

The "blue" look you are going for is referred to as the "color temperature" of a bulb. For blue looking bulbs, you want a color temperature of about 5000-6000K. That mostly means that you need to get a high price car style bulb, or a full fledged HID system. Standard Sodium and Halogen based...

Yeah, it seemed rather exorbitant. I'm pretty sure we have piles of similar lamps back at the old museum I worked at. Nothing about a cracked lens, dented, broken mount, tarnished lamp screams "worth $300+!" to me.

While looking for ideas for myself... I found this on ebay: Looks like photos of your bike haha Ebay Brass Lamp For Sale It's just a little ways down the listing.

The whole electrical system is usually a pretty light load. Take your lights wattage and convert it to amps and total it up. If you have a CDI, then your lights are the whole load on your electrical system. If you have an electronic ignition, those are usually about 200 watts or less. Given that...

For my bike at least, there is a relatively simple check of the stator coils by measuring their resistance (ohms) with a multimeter. The factory service manual for my bike includes the proper ranges for the stator coils, if they are out of that, it won't be working. Also, in the post above, I...

It's important to note, however, that neither of those spades is actually designed for 6 or 8 gage wire (in a sense). Yellow crimps are designed for the largest wire while still being a 1/4" spade, and those are made to take 10 to 12 gage wire (stranded). 6 or 8 isn't going to fit nice... but...

Very awesome. Perfect balance of the steampunk aesthetic and functionality, and best of all you didn't glue on any damn non-functional gears!

Also, what is the condition of the air box/filters, etc. A royally clogged air intake system can act like a "choke" and make a bike idle high.