Same day. Eight years ago.
With orders to fulfill and other chores to do it turned out that I wasn’t actively working on KZ650 project form more than two weeks. It’s quite distracting especially taking into account that I had…
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Building some spoked wheels.
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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Swiss Zephyr reborn.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Brake torque rod.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Shopping post #12.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Chain guard. Part 2.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Chain guard. Part 1.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Chassis. Part 2.
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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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Chassis. Part 1.
Now I am working on KZ650 chassis now , modifying some parts, and calculating, and drawing all adapters I have to order to be made: for Zephyr 550 swingarm, for shocks, and so on. This…
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