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one word: AWESOME!

the forks and hubs came out pretty good after not that much of hard work. I didn't use sandpaper, just steelwool 0,0 and after the steelwool I polished with belgom alu and lot's of elbow grease! ;) The spokes are easily found on ebay, I just ordered the cheapest chrome versions with chrome...

I finished the build a little further, I'm waiting for the tyres to arrive now. I ordered metzeler ME 77 3,50 front and 4,00 for the rear. I just fabricated some holders for the tacho, that's all I'm gonna run.

thx for the information, I was hoping it was bought because I can't find decent seat upholstery guys in my neigbourhood... :-\

Nice bike and I love what you did with the seat. Did you buy that seat cover or is it homemade? I would love to know more about it because I'm planning doing something similar with my cb350...

Re: KZ 400 Kawakazi yup, nice build! How that she runs pretty quick or did you find the problem yet?

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker I was thinking about a 4" in the front myself (other brand and type) but I was afraid it wouldn't work on a stock 250/350 rim. Good to see it can work! I know it's better to ride a smaller tire but it's for the looks and it's more a show bike then a driver...

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker Cool! Which model and brand are the tyres please? And the measurements? stock rims I guess?

some more details, the inner part of the hub is painted with the wrinkle paint and after that I polished the lines in it, hope you understand me. I see the pictures upside down, don't know what I did wrong? moderator? :-[ and the last one for today, I already started to "pimp" the exhaust...

Finally got my parts back from the powder coater yesterday and I found some time today to start building. I laced the wheels first, then I mounted the forks, swingarm and I did a little mockup, this is the result: I'm really satisfied with the glossy black finish, it's perfect. It works very...

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker a nice fresh paint of coat: perfect to start building! looking forward to see the next steps.

looking forward to the progress, I'm in the middle of something equal. I hope to pick up my parts from the powder coater this evening or tomorrow... It's taking him ages! :-\

I painted my hubs today with wrinkle paint and I'm pretty happy with the result, here is a little mockup. I'm thinking about polishing the upper lines in the middle of the hub if the paint is 100% dry... not sure yet.

Re: KZ 400 Kawakazi Build Wow, I missed this build. Looks good! I'm gonna follow this one.

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker Okay We'll do that. I'm leaving now to meet the powder coater, hope to have my parts back in a week or two.

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker good idea! what areas would you suggest? or the whole rim? sidewalls isn't necessary I guess...

mainjet is still the 105? I'm reading all kind of horror stories about pod filters so I'm trying to catch up as much information as I can get.

Re: Gentlemen's CB250 Brat Tracker Looks good so far! Was it a hard time lacing up the wheels without damaging the black paint / powder coat? I'm gonna try this in a few weeks and I'm having nightmares thinking about it. ;)

nice build to far, last mockup looks great imho. What air filters do you use? do you have a close up shot? Did you already ran with that setup?

=> yeah that's something you would suspect but that's not an option. I've read somewhere you need to fix it with washers. Also I should go for uni filters and not the typical egmo / K1N style filters. Allthough I prefer my bike to operate at it's best I really like the K&N look more then the...