Hello all,
I'm just starting my first cafe racer, on my first bike, a 1972 Honda cb450 K5. Found Do The Ton while researching, so many amazing bikes here, had to stick around. I'll put up some progress pics as I go, look forward to feedback
I plan on doing all the body work myself, and a friend is helping get the bike to run cherry. Got it for $200 bucks in running condition, just needs some mechanical lovin to get it running right. And a little poking and prodding to get it looking as cherry as it'll run 
I'm just starting my first cafe racer, on my first bike, a 1972 Honda cb450 K5. Found Do The Ton while researching, so many amazing bikes here, had to stick around. I'll put up some progress pics as I go, look forward to feedback
I plan on doing all the body work myself, and a friend is helping get the bike to run cherry. Got it for $200 bucks in running condition, just needs some mechanical lovin to get it running right. And a little poking and prodding to get it looking as cherry as it'll run 
Gonna hit a few local junkyards, see if i can find some nice little curvy vintage taillight to mod. Want to pick up a new speedo, lose the idiot lights and tach(which doesn't work anyway, cable's broke), and make a real small, clean looking fairing to put it all in. Want to stick with the red, seat will be brown leather, maybe with red stitching, haven't decided yet. Going to keep the rims chrome, and red the spokes. also want to pull the sidepanels, or mod them, to put two air pods where the factory filters are, with a 90degree in the intake, so the ends of the pods are pointing left/right respectively, instead of straight back. kind of hard to explain, anyway. But this is all subject to change, I try not to make plans, they can't go wrong if you don't have one in the first place