Steering lock has been made closer by moving the rad up there,,,,but is a cafe racer remember, they have no lock, you are ment to lean till it all scrapes!! You only need lock to reverse park!!!! ha.

 

Starting to get the boring stuff sorted out now, like all of this under seat Spaghetti... The only good part is that Honda seem to add plenty of length to the wiring loom allowing some components to to situated where I want them without hours of wire soldering extensions!!

 

The way you have shorten the rear subframe looks smicko mate

 

Thanks mate. Far more work than I imagined I was going to do, but one thing flows into another.

 

Oooh, if you run across a MosFet R/R before you are done, get it in there before you button that all up. As the R/R you have in there now is the "finned" oem style one.. Not the very worst, but still eventually going to fail. I had one of those last ~3 years FYI.

 

Beautiful work. Its going to be awesome!

 

Thanks for the encouragement and advise boys, I did not realise the beer and brain power needed to change this bike into a cafe racer, it is pretty challenging to crack this by yourself with no plans to follow, just a vision in my head at what I think will look cool, and what I want to ride around on.

I am lucky that I can do 99% of the work myself, but if you would have to subcontract this out it would be too cost prohibitive.

I will take a look on ebay for a mosfet rec , reg to replace this one. This wreck I have bought has only done 20,000klm, so most of the components are in good shape so far.

Cheers.

 

people have more r/r problems when they put them under more load. like when changing bulb to smaller wattages, having manual switches to turn off headlights and some other "changes" all put extra load to/on the r/r. adding a high wattage headlight bulb can help with the r/r lifespan. another r/r life prolonging things you can do is put it in a place where it can cool faster and more efficiently, as all it does is use up excess power by converting it into heat (too much heat is what is causeing r/r to fail) . i wouldn't worry about getting a new one until you have to... and then everyone says yamaha r1 work great and there cheaper. not saying you dont already know any of this but its just my two cents.

 

just a thought with your indicators.... they might be to close together (just by looking) for qld transport laws for rego'ing a bike. because i had problems with my naked vtr in qld and they look alot wider then yours. the easy rule is same width as standed no more or less. stupid but the rules. dont know if it will be a problem since your going to have to get mod plates anyway ??? fyi (i had to add 10mm spacers on each side)

 

Front discs arrived today and starting to piece the front end together now.

 

Whoa look at that exhaust. The things I would give for metal fab skills and equipment.

Also, nice detail on the mag sprocket guard... that's probably the best version of a modded stock cover that I've seen (or at least remember)




P.S. When a new member logs on, the two pieces of advice are to upgrade the R/R and replace the cct's... What I'm saying is that I'd look into a MOSFET regardless of the mileage of the stock one...

 

I see that exhaust getting nixed, or at least cussed at a ton. Looks cool, but also looks painful!