Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Shopping post #13.
When it came to gaskets, I prefer sticking to OEM ones, at least in key places like cylinder base or under cylinder head. So no wonder I’ve bought OEM cylinder gasket for KZ650 engine. Its…
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When it came to gaskets, I prefer sticking to OEM ones, at least in key places like cylinder base or under cylinder head. So no wonder I’ve bought OEM cylinder gasket for KZ650 engine. Its…
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I became used having no weekends in their classic meaning, however I hoped to work a bit on our KZ650 cafe-racer this weekend, as a previous week left me with only one day to work…
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Since I finished conversion of CBX550 wheels from Comstar into spoked ones I was thinking about another pair of Comstar wheels I have in my procession. To be exact, Honda CBX750 wheels. Unlike to those…
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When I received email from old client of mine with modest subject “New Paint” it turned out, I was completely unprepared to what I saw on pictures in attachment to that email. Remember this very…
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Usually rear brake caliper’ torque rod is strictly utilitarian looking thing. To make it of steel was also the simplest option, especially taking into account the fact that there is a 6mm offset between torque…
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Delays in parcel delivery sometimes happen. However this particular parcel set my personal record for waiting time. It was long before this nowadays lockdowns and flights cancellations: I bought NOS first gear for output shaft…
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I polished chain guard with my usual approach: polishing-sanding-polishing. I was not picky on the internal side; its destiny is to be covered in chain lube and grease anyway. Result looked very nice. From previous…
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For intro I couldn’t, but quote myself: If you tap “cafe racer” in google or another web search engine’ search line, you may find a lot of pictures of subject bikes without any kind of…
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Next part of work on chassis adaptation. I used 41mm fully adjustable front fork from Kawasaki ZX6R, however I didn’t install it in ZX6R triples. In my opinion ZX6R triples have too short forks offset,…
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