Airhead Cafe - R80RC

By the T, do you mean the connector between the headers?

The paint was done by my buddy Josh- he has painted three bikes for me and does a great job:

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No the break "t" under the bottom triple tree. That one has built in line leads. most, do not. that'll get rid of 3-4" of slack.
 
Forgot I had these cans in the basement and stumbled across them last night . . . perfect fit!

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BIG improvement. There was an 79 r65 for sale here in NE ohio i saw the guy wanted 2800 if i were independently wealthy i would be calling him now.
 
Thanks, agreed.

OK, gotta deal with the brake lines, make a tail light bracket and plate mount, deal with the rear frame hoop and adjust the carbs . . . almost there.
 
Thanks- just ordered some rearsets from Chris at BoxerMetal.com- a direct fit, can't wait.

Got the brake lines tucked up under the front end a bit more, added a license plate bracket and just need to mount the tail light.
 
BoxerMetal Rearsets are on . . . I could not be happier with the quality and fittment- some of the nicest machine work I have seen. Chris is a great guy and easy to deal with; he is quick to respond to questions too.

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Met a guy at Vintage Days who had a similar BMW cafe- we got to talking and he had an extra alloy upper triple clamp he sold me . . . much improved over the stock stamped steel ;D

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Lovely bike and I'm unashamed to say that I'll be pinching a few ideas from you on my BMW build.

Namely the tank stripe, that's the best example I've seen on that style tank (and trust me, I've looked and looked)

Also, the silencers look great, I'm guessing they're Dunstall style silencers.

I had a suggestion about a top yoke, but then spotted you got yourself a San Jose BMW top clamp - nice find!

I've used a spare bottom yoke with the pin pressed out and flipped over, I machined a recess for the stem nut so it sits flush with the at the edges, with the hex & dome of the nut proud of the top. I removed all the raised castings with a DA sander and various grades of disks, finishing with a bright, clean surface, but not polished - don't want to be dazzled by reflected sunlight when my chin is on the tank :)

Regarding the wheel colour, this is only my take on it and I'm not having a dig, but the current wheel colour seems to flow well through the bike as it matches the engine and trans, the black might be too much and break up that flow.
 
A further thought on the wheels, if you wanted to fit spoked wheels you can.

The UK market Police bikes and also the AA breakdown service used spoked wheels with Brembo calipers on the front and drum rear brake - the disc carriers are unique - deeper (as far as I can tell) and the front hub has 2 ribs in the centre.

I've done this to my own bike which was an R100RS with Brembo brakes and cast wheels.

Another thing I found was I didn't like the fork top nuts on my bike as they were chewed up, but you can use fork top nuts from a /5, /6 or /7 and then screw the chrome plated alloy covers in (which cost around £5 each) and they really set of an alloy top yoke.

I should really post up my own thread...... EDIT: Done it.
 
Thanks fellas. Yeah, I am in agreement that the wheels go with the flow . . . plus, the new tires are already on, so not too likely that they will be coming off any time soon ;)

TwinPlug- thanks for the tips the wheels and upper clamp- sounds like you know what you are talking about- feel free to use whatever ideas you like.

Yeah, the stripe- I looked at hundreds of pictures and dialed the painter's number at least a dozen times to change the stripe but never hit 'send.' I was going to go with the double stripe, but my wife kept coming back to the single and I am glad she did.

Can't wait to see your project.
 
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