gazzz
May 31, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
The distinctive feature of every Gazzz Garage project is preassembling photo that shows all parts, units and components of project placed on some background. We started this tradition of ours in 2014 when such “Exploded…
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gazzz
May 29, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: engine, KZ750 cylinder head
Initially I thought to use original KZ650 cylinder head as it was in very nice condition: no broken cooling fins, clean intake channels and so on and so forth. The only thing I had to…
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gazzz
May 24, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
So, after many long days of hard work I finally finished Honda CBX550 wheels polishing and now I could proceed to assembling. The most of components are ready, however some additional preparation should be done…
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gazzz
May 21, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
Today I finished sandpapering the last part of Honda CBX550 wheels and began to polish it. I have to buy some bearings and seals and give some parts to be zinc galvanized before I start…
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gazzz
May 11, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
Honda CBX550 wheels’ and brake’ components polishing give me a hell of work. Even counting that CBX550 wheels are one of key points of my Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer project, they took tremendous amount of working…
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gazzz
May 6, 2019
memories
Many people travel far to see something spectacular. However, sometimes enough just to lift your head up and here it is, as epic as one could only imagine…
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May 2, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
As I promised, here is second part of polished Honda CBX550 brake shields and cover photos. Oksana after seeing these photos told me: “It’s not obvious why polishing of all those air intakes was so…
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gazzz
May 1, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
Time for another portion of polished wheel’s parts photos. This time it’s brake shields and covers. As I wrote earlier, Honda CBX550 wheels’ parts are raw and never meant to be polished. Even counting that…
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gazzz
April 29, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: engine
Kawasaki KZ650 inherited its clutch actuation system from its older and bigger Z-brothers. This means that clutch actuator is placed on left (sprocket) cover and momentum from it to clutch spring (release) plate transmitted through…
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