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September 24, 2020
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: engine, KZ650: shopping post
Cam chain tensioner systems of Kawasaki Z900, Z1 and early KZ650 with their three guide sprockets and two guide wheels are fascinating and have attractiveness of complicated mechanical toys. However, one who decided to pack…
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September 18, 2020
Garage, Zephyr 750
I was resting with my legs stretched after a long day that was full of work and rummaging through the city on my Kawasaki Zephyr 750. And that was Zephyr I was looking at and…
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gazzz
September 17, 2020
cafe racer, cafe-racer parts, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX750 spoked wheels
Honda CBX750 hubs for Kris’ Honda CB750 Spider cafe-racer were painted in satin black with Eastwood ceramic paint. They looked really great: While hubs were in the paint shop, I brought spoke adapters for Comstar wheels…
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September 12, 2020
cafe racer, cafe-racer parts, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX750 spoked wheels
I think I overdid the previous part of the story, so let this part be a tad shorter. After I received rims and spokes I made initial assembly of the wheels to make sure that…
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gazzz
September 9, 2020
cafe racer, cafe-racer parts, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX750 spoked wheels
In customizing wheels command how the motorcycle will look, and it requires experience and knowledge to hit the bull’ eye and get perfect wheels. Especially when it comes to making spoked wheels for bikes that…
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gazzz
August 30, 2020
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX750 spoked wheels
In my personal opinion cafe-racers and spoked wheels are inseparable. When this Spring I was emailed by Krzysztof (KrisBiker, Poland) with a question if I could produce a set of spoked wheels for his cafe-racer…
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August 26, 2020
Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: engine
It finally happened: cylinders for Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer project are bored, honed to fit a Wiseco K700 piston kit, glass beads blasted painted in black. It’s my third approach to cylinder block. Original cylinders of…
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gazzz
August 17, 2020
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: shopping post
And here we go with a new shopping post. And again, all parts in it are for Kawasaki KZ650 engine, which is no wonder as engine assembling is my next big goal. As I already…
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gazzz
August 13, 2020
cafe racer, Zephyr, Zephyr 750, Zephyr 750 cafe-racer, Zephyrs with kits
Here are photos of Zephyr 750 from Germany, which I received from my client recently. Surely, the most noticeable about this motorcycle is the fabulous painting made by airbrush artisan according to the design of…
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