You must be italian! Because your wiring looks like spaghetti. Did you move the wiring to the left side. And why can't you cut a hole in the headlight and lay wires inside?1sttimer said:Got quite a bit done today. I took about two inches off of each clip on bar...looks a lot tighter IMO and doesn't leave gaps on the bars between controls.
Here's the dash. I tried to lay out the wiring the best as possible but I need another mid-bike tray to hide some wires I didn't account for.
What do people do with this group of wires if I'm not using a stock bucket with a hole large enough to cram the extra wires? I tried to slide the switch block thing through the coil hole and relocate it to the other side of the bike but the wires wanted to disconnect because of the tension.
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"Patina" The 1973 CB175 Cafe Racer
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Ha, it doesn't look like that anymore. I am indeed thinking of moving it to the left but I unplugged and plugged some components back together in a fashion that better suits the dash layout I have. It looks better but I think I'm going to grab an aluminum box and throw it all in there behind the lamp.
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I cut it before I learned about the importance of keeping crap out of the carbs. And also after all the work of taking the engine apart, meticulously cleaning, masking and painting each piece I'm not about to let dirt and grime fling up there and ruin it the first day I go out. I know it will eventually get jacked up - that's supposed to happen. But I'd like to preserve it a bit.
Plus the velocity stacks I'm running will be full open with only a fine mesh protecting the inlet to the carbies. I want to protect them a bit.
Plus the velocity stacks I'm running will be full open with only a fine mesh protecting the inlet to the carbies. I want to protect them a bit.
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Sonreir said:
I think you came out with that option right after I placed my order! Ha!
Is there any way I can retrofit it somehow? I'm totally fine with the main trunk being the standard material, I just don't know what to so with the wires at the dash and the fuse block looking thing (what is this by the way?)
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Cool project. I would love to see those gauges drop down to be flush with the top of the triple clamp. The seem to kinda stick up when looking at the profile.
The idea, back in the day was that gauges needed to be high and at an angle so that they could be read from a race crouch position - so that was the fashion back then. To be a real cafe racer meant you had to have matched clocks up high and obvious. Only boring street bikes hid the speedo where it could be see from sitting upright.
This time around, the fashion is more on making bikes look like those boring street bikes we used to trun into cafe racers. Brat style seats, for example, mimic a stock Brit bike seat but slightly thinned and without enough foam to be comfortable for more than a few minutes at a time.
Fashion trends are interesting.
This time around, the fashion is more on making bikes look like those boring street bikes we used to trun into cafe racers. Brat style seats, for example, mimic a stock Brit bike seat but slightly thinned and without enough foam to be comfortable for more than a few minutes at a time.
Fashion trends are interesting.
they will rob you of too much power :'(
