update x4 6/24/08 cx500 and cb750 almost done. Before and after pics added.
#1
update x4 6/24/08 cx500 and cb750 almost done. Before and after pics added.
My dad just bought me a 1980 honda cx500 bike for $700. Less than 18k origional miles, origional tires and everything. It runs good, except that it needs a new choke cable or its a pain to srtart. This bike has an v-twin style engine, except that it sits sideways in the bike. Kinda cool. Right now the bike is ugly as ----. I hate how it looks with the gigantic seat and little wimpy tires, so those will get tossed quick.
Here is what it looks like now. (Not my bike, same thing almost exactly though)
Ill be buying drag bars for the front end, and upgrade the brakes to a two piston caliper with braided steel lines up front. Dont know what to do about the drums in the rear yet.
This is the rear end ill be putting on it. Looks ten times better than stock. Just need a single seat. Non of this stuff is made exactly for this bike, but for a pretty close model. So im sure ill be doing some fabbing to get it to work right and look good.
Different full bike view. I love the cafe racer look. Very cool IMO.
So what do you think? I like it, and for the bike plus parts is under $1500 and its definetly not something you see every day.
Here is what it looks like now. (Not my bike, same thing almost exactly though)
Ill be buying drag bars for the front end, and upgrade the brakes to a two piston caliper with braided steel lines up front. Dont know what to do about the drums in the rear yet.
This is the rear end ill be putting on it. Looks ten times better than stock. Just need a single seat. Non of this stuff is made exactly for this bike, but for a pretty close model. So im sure ill be doing some fabbing to get it to work right and look good.
Different full bike view. I love the cafe racer look. Very cool IMO.
So what do you think? I like it, and for the bike plus parts is under $1500 and its definetly not something you see every day.
#4
Re: Cafe Racer anybody?
i love the look of those bikes, check out this website
http://www.cb750cafe.com/parts.php
http://www.cb750cafe.com/parts.php
#7
Re: Cafe Racer anybody?
Originally Posted by crxvtec91
i love the look of those bikes, check out this website
http://www.cb750cafe.com/parts.php
http://www.cb750cafe.com/parts.php
#8
Re: Cafe Racer anybody?
I'm doing a cafe racer right now. I picked up a CM400T for 400 bones this past winter. I've been pulling as much off as possible. The sofa sized seat got majorly hacked up this weekend. Stock seatpan+rear fender+walmart fiberglass kit=gangster single person cafe seat. I hacked up the stock seatpan and welded the fender ontop of the seatpan and covered it in glass. I'm still sanding it down but overall I'm pretty happy. One, because I'm broke and I'm HMT to the fullest and two. I can't really afford the hundred or so they charge for the cafe racer style seats on ebay. I just have to mount on brake light and the licensce plate and it's road ready.