Garage Halloween 2020
There was a gentle knock on the door of our workshop. We opened and here they were: this jack-o’-lantern along with his dog-o’-lantern. We greeted them and let them in, and gave them the best…
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Yearly Archive: 2020
One old photo again.
I was rummaging through my photo archives in search of one particular photo when I stumbled on this photo which I shot in 2008. My archive consists of RAW files downloaded from my cameras. When…
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Memories of Autumn.
This year autumn is pretty strange. There are a lot of trees that still are green, and those that start to lose their leaves, lose them right as they are: greenish-brown. It seems that red…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Starter restoration. Part 4.
And here is the last part of Kawasaki KZ650 electrical starter restoration story. All I had to do was to finish the job as to install another end cap with gears in it with assembling…
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Home for Zephyr cafe kit, Breizh, France
Through the years of kits manufacturing we posted quite a lot of photos of our clients’ motorcycles. And every one of Zephyr was unique, as unique were ideas of their owners. With words ‘Ci joint…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Starter restoration. Part 3.
I started assembling the starter motor from yoke assembly. As I already mentioned, Kawasaki service manual indicates that “is not meant to be disassembled”. The reason is simple: the gap between rotor and field coils’…
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Spoked wheels for cafe-racer. Ready for the ride.
Looks like it’s time to continue and finish the story about the wheels for Polish Honda CB750 Spider wheels. I made final assembling of both wheels and my next task was to true them. As…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Starter restoration. Part 2.
Before I could start assembling the starter motor I had to replace bearing and O-rings. Since O-Rings have part numbers it’s not an issue to buy them. The bearing of the output shaft is 6003Z…
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Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Starter restoration. Part 1.
As long as the starter motor works, people rarely think about it. Especially if the starter motor is hidden under the fancy cover like that on Kawasaki KZ or SOHC Honda CB. I duno what…
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