CrispyDesigns
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I picked up a 1977 CB550k last month. It was an incomplete project bike but I fell in love with the lines and proportions as soon as I saw it. It has had an Aprilia RS 125 R front end and OZ wheel fitted, modified rear wheel and TL 1000 Brembo rear caliper. Here it is on the day I picked it up;
I swapped out the rear shocks for a slightly longer set of piggy back shocks and took off the Café racer seat hump as I have Brat plans for it
The engine is in bits...lots of bits! Multiples of all sorts of parts. Lots of engine cases, two clutches, three centre stands...all sorts.
It's all in decent condition but it freaked me out! So many bits and I have no experience of rebuilding engines. I dropped it all off at DM Engineering for a soda blast, clean and rebuild...along with a mild tickle for a little more poke.
Next was to fire up the angle grinder and get rid of the un-needed tabs to clean up the silhouette...
Recycling...
Nice and clean!
I'm loving this bike more with every little change I make
A little package arrived from the boys at Cognito Moto
Bolted on the rear set brackets and finalised the seat and loop. Bolted up a 2008 Aprilia RS 125 R front fender too.
A few more pieces of the puzzle arrived. Stating to actually look like a bike now
I mocked up a battery box today. The Cognito Moto one is great but no longer fits now I've had to take out the original seat brackets. Mine is bigger, acts as a bit of protection for the bottom of the seat and best of all doesn't mess with the lines of the bike's silhouette
I also designed as minimal a set of brackets as I could for the rear master cylinder to work with my Tarozzi rear sets. I'm pretty chuffed with this as it's as minimal as I could get it and the push on the cylinder is really nice and smooth.
...and that's as it stands. Watch this space.
I swapped out the rear shocks for a slightly longer set of piggy back shocks and took off the Café racer seat hump as I have Brat plans for it
The engine is in bits...lots of bits! Multiples of all sorts of parts. Lots of engine cases, two clutches, three centre stands...all sorts.
It's all in decent condition but it freaked me out! So many bits and I have no experience of rebuilding engines. I dropped it all off at DM Engineering for a soda blast, clean and rebuild...along with a mild tickle for a little more poke.
Next was to fire up the angle grinder and get rid of the un-needed tabs to clean up the silhouette...
Recycling...
Nice and clean!
I'm loving this bike more with every little change I make
A little package arrived from the boys at Cognito Moto
Bolted on the rear set brackets and finalised the seat and loop. Bolted up a 2008 Aprilia RS 125 R front fender too.
A few more pieces of the puzzle arrived. Stating to actually look like a bike now
I mocked up a battery box today. The Cognito Moto one is great but no longer fits now I've had to take out the original seat brackets. Mine is bigger, acts as a bit of protection for the bottom of the seat and best of all doesn't mess with the lines of the bike's silhouette
I also designed as minimal a set of brackets as I could for the rear master cylinder to work with my Tarozzi rear sets. I'm pretty chuffed with this as it's as minimal as I could get it and the push on the cylinder is really nice and smooth.
...and that's as it stands. Watch this space.