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Re: Honda CX500 Custom gets a Cafe facelift I picked up a pair of 11" Sportster 48 shocks on Friday in order help with the angle in my swingarm/driveshaft. Received a pair of EMGO shorty mufflers, I will be adding the thumbscrew/washer baffles when I install them. Also ordered some pre-bent 1...

CXMAN, Thanks for the advice, others have said they thought it was too much as well, but no one could ever offer a value, just speculation. I have been on the look out for shocks that are a few inches shorter and will install them before I hit the road with it.

Well, Time and Determination have returned and this bike is going to be on the road! Took some pics this weekend, new CX650 headers (better bends than the cx500 stockers), K&N filters, British Customs lowered gauge bracket for the Bonneville front end. I chose to go with CX650 headers because I...

What a Beaut! One of these days I will finish mine...

It took me quite a few minutes, but I know I had seen one around. Found it on google images and it happens to be a DTT bike. http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=20044.0

Cafe racer kit, CRK, in the UK sells them, I'm not sure about anyone stateside thta makes/sells them. A lot of people mock them up with card board and tape and then find someone locally to create one out of metal. I'm planning to mock one up myself very soon as I will be relocating the battery...

Such a beautiful example of a CX500 cafe bike. Great work, the sound of it running is very pleasing to the ears as well. Looking forward to getting mine on the road asap.

Frankenfe, Where you been man? We are excited to see this thing come together! I haven't mad much progress on my bike at all besides riding it around a bit in its current form. I'm probably going to get an exhaust bent up, build a seat and change where the battery is going so that I can ride...

Frankenfe, Your CM400 Cafe looks so good! Well done man, it gives me hope for getting my bike done haha. I also have a bunch of plans for the 2k og mile CX parts bike I picked up. It's super clean. I'm gonna go for laid back bobber, Norman Hyde "M"bars, short shocks, fatty touring tires and...

Really stoked because I got to ride my CX500 cafe bike around last night for the first time ever. I bought the bike a heap of junk for $300 and have been working on it slowly for 2+ years. It's definitley not done, but I couldn't stand it anymore so I took it for a spin. Below is anoth pic of...

Okay got way too busy at the end of March and moved to a new place with a garage, sooooo I now can work on the bike at home! I just hit up the dudes from WTF Fabrication in AJ to see if they can help me out with a new exhaust and my seat pan and ofcourse they said SURE! Since my exhaust is...

I assume you probably got your carbs back together already, but you are going to have to re-use the OG jet. Good job on the extracting tool, I learned the hard way about breaking off an easy out off in the jet. I got another set of carbs and soaked them on CLR and them blasted them out with a...

Actually that's my Uncle's Triumph Bonneville bobber, 800cc twin. He got it on the road after hard tailing the frame and lots of custom work DNA springer, and ended up laying it down due to loss of a front axle nut. Hard lesson learned, use LOCKTITE and SAFETY WIRE brothers! Actually he and...

Thanks for the inspiration Frankenfe! That bike is rad, I had seen it recently. No major update, started the bike again today and it is still idling on two cylinders (Thank God). Haven't had much time to mess with it, but I should be getting to welding up the foot controls some time very soon. I...

Easy now Frankenfe! I'll post pics soon! lol Carbs are the same Keihin CV's, I boiled them in CLR and took a power steamer to them to blast out all of the ports etc. It is now idling and responding very well to throttle. I still have a ton of work to do, I will more than likely mount the foot...

Hi Steve, Good work on the rearsets, I'm going to be working on some controls like this for my bike very soon. You should check out the CX500 that Little Horse Custom Motorcycles built, they routed the shifter underneath the bike and it comes out right behind the starter. I'm going to attempt...

New Name for the Bike. It is the Honda WTFive-hundred Got another set of carbs on the bike last week and it was idling, god did that feel good! Took the carbs back off and will give them a thorough cleaning before installing them again. I also picked up a parts bike off of Clist that is rather...

Hey Von, I've used a lot of different things since I started styling my hair like this. I really like Layrite, smells soo good, but its expensive and I'd have to drive far to get it or order it online. I recently started using Murray's and I really dig it. I used to hate putting shit in my hair...

Hey Yogi, while working on the carbs I got an easy-out/extractor stuck in my (pressed in) idle jet in my carb, which put a halt on my build for a while. But I have the fire under me again to get this thing on the road and it will be moving again. I got it running but it wouldn't idle on the...

Frankenfe, this bike is going to be insane! I love that tank and great job on the oil tank as well!!! Also your black CM400 is a sexy little beast as well. Not trying to be a pain, but I'm a little disappointed you are going with a fiberglass seat pan. It is your build and you have the vision...