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clearly the battery in this bike is too heavy and too far back

Welcome Marcin. Where in Aus are you? I am in Melbourne I have an 82 KZ650 I am workin on atm and this is the place for ideas and info, specially for inexperienced clowns as myself. If you have any pics of your bikes, put em up and let us check em out. Daz

Bugger. I even took the wire brush to it on the weekend and it seemed to do nothing to it. I would take you up on your offer if I wasn't on the other side of the world. Gonna have to look out for some of that paint stripper too. This place is great for info and ideas. I be lost without it

Coming along nicely. How did you strip the chrome from the fenders? I have some chrome rims that are flaking and I want to strip them to get em painted black.

what about a tail like this one?

Disco Volante has tarozzi model specific or universal rear sets.

Top stuff, good to see some of the old kwakas showing up amongst the flood of CB's on this site.

Nice work so far, you are ripping along. Keep us updated and I would love to see the process of making your fibreglass seat. I have an 82 kz650 that I am working on atm, but mine is all in pieces on the garage floor :-[ I am still torn between clipons and the ace bars but I have a fair bit of...

I like what he has done with his rear brake link. I hadn't even thought of doing mine like that. Huzzah!

Re: 1976 KZ400 Cafe Transformation - Mock Up Pics I like the way you made your seat and it looks like it has come out real nice, well the second time round... ;) I'll be making up a seat for my build and will be looking over your process very closely.

Nice work so far Squirley! Can you come and live next door to me so I can um "borrow" your tools ;D or you just do the welding for me. Imagine how good you would feel after helping out your neighbour ;D What did you do with the original front end that was on the bike. I might be interested...

Re: Deacon's 1972 CB350 Cafe Project I am keen to see them on as I am really leaning toward them for my build.

Re: 1974 CB 360 Caffe started.... Where did you get the foam to do your seat?

Got a bit done today, pulled the engine out and the frame is now down to just the wheels. I have a bucketload of ziplock bags with bolts and bits in em in a box. Hopefully I can decipher it all during reassembly. :-\ I've got some hefty cleaning to do on the engine tho. Also have done...

If I can get my hands on replacements they will be going for sure. I have to get replacement forks too since it isn't a straight swap due to caliper position and disc size. Are you in US? I am in Australia and it'd be waaay cheaper for you to get em from someone in the US I reckon.

Work was a bit slow today so I cracked out my wacom and Photoshop and made a few pics up. Let me know which ones you guys like. I like the 5th one and the first one but I also like the tail from the 2nd one, the style of which I shamelessly nicked from Wrenchmonkees. The third tail would be just...

I picked up this delightful PoS about a month ago and wasn't too sure where I would be heading with it as I was told it hadn't run in over three years. It also looks like it spent a few of those three years out in the weather...on the coast. I pulled the carbies off and had a look inside and...

Yo Spidey. Go look at 8negro "CB One of the nicest I've seen for a long time. Simple, clean, light ... A great work of his own that shows very well photographed. Seeing this kind of bike makes you want to get into the material and have one. More and more I like the cafe racer city, small...

Re: poor man's 74 cb350f cafe (update: leather seat cover) Nicely done. It looks like it gets ridden a lot and not stored in your lounge room as a conversation piece. Awesome work. Love the bit on the helmet too.

Lookin real sweet. Did you clean up the engine yourself and what did you use to do it?