Powderfinger
Been Around the Block
Hello Everyone,
I am new to the cafe racer scene but I have ridden motorcycles most of my life, some street but mostly dirt bikes doing cross country racing.
I saw this bike on Craigslist in March listed as a started cafe racer project and I liked the looks of it so I drove about an hour to Frostburg MD and bought it for $400.00 with a title.
Since then in no particular order I have:
Chassis:
Built rearsets, aluminum pegs with steel levers pivoting on the pegs
Cut off the rear cowling and made it removable
Made a battery holder inside the cowling
Made a small tray for electrical components
Cut down the front fender
Made a rear fender out of aluminum
Made an aluminum and plywood seat pan, the padding and cover will attach to the plywood, edge of aluminum will be exposed
Mounted a taillight to the cowling
Drilled the frame and machined aluminum bushings for rear turn signals
Engine:
Removed the top end intending to replace the rings and gaskets, I started to put it back together and broke the front cam chain slider so I had to completely disassemble the motor, it was probably a good thing because there was a lot of gunk in the bottom case so everything was cleaned and reassembled.
Put on a set of Mikunis from a Yamaha Banshee, they are a bit small but good for now and the price was right
Used the stock 2 into 1 head pipe, some bent pipe I had, the front part of the stock muffler and I made a baffle to make the exhaust.
I bought Uni Foam filters for it.
Dyna ignition coil
KZ650 kick starter
That is where I am with it now, there is still a lot of work to do but I've taken it on a few test rides around the neighborhood and it's running pretty good so next I will tear it down and start finishing things.
I am new to the cafe racer scene but I have ridden motorcycles most of my life, some street but mostly dirt bikes doing cross country racing.
I saw this bike on Craigslist in March listed as a started cafe racer project and I liked the looks of it so I drove about an hour to Frostburg MD and bought it for $400.00 with a title.
Since then in no particular order I have:
Chassis:
Built rearsets, aluminum pegs with steel levers pivoting on the pegs
Cut off the rear cowling and made it removable
Made a battery holder inside the cowling
Made a small tray for electrical components
Cut down the front fender
Made a rear fender out of aluminum
Made an aluminum and plywood seat pan, the padding and cover will attach to the plywood, edge of aluminum will be exposed
Mounted a taillight to the cowling
Drilled the frame and machined aluminum bushings for rear turn signals
Engine:
Removed the top end intending to replace the rings and gaskets, I started to put it back together and broke the front cam chain slider so I had to completely disassemble the motor, it was probably a good thing because there was a lot of gunk in the bottom case so everything was cleaned and reassembled.
Put on a set of Mikunis from a Yamaha Banshee, they are a bit small but good for now and the price was right
Used the stock 2 into 1 head pipe, some bent pipe I had, the front part of the stock muffler and I made a baffle to make the exhaust.
I bought Uni Foam filters for it.
Dyna ignition coil
KZ650 kick starter
That is where I am with it now, there is still a lot of work to do but I've taken it on a few test rides around the neighborhood and it's running pretty good so next I will tear it down and start finishing things.