Zephyr 550 cafe-racer from Germany.
And here comes a moment exciting for me: I received photos of one of the first Kawasaki Zephyr 550 modified with our cafe-racer kit. This also was one of the first two kits for Zephyr…
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Zephyr 550-750 cafe-racer kits all the way.
I was selecting photos for the next part of the Kawasaki KZ650 engine assembling story when I came across the pictures you may see below. I mostly forgot about them as I took them occasionally. …
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Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit. First completed kits.
And here is the final part of the story about the first two cafe-racer kits for Kawasaki Zephyr 550. It took much longer than I expected to develop the kit and settle all matters of…
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Zephyr 750 and 550 cafe racer seats: comparison.
Kawasaki Zephyr 750 and 550 motorcycles look like brothers (or sisters) so no wonder, when I was working on Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit my plans for the seat was to make it look like those…
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Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit. First kit installed.
Sure, as soon as I had a ready seat at my disposal I started preparing the Kawasaki Zephyr 400/550 for its installation. It occurred to me that only installing a kit wouldn’t be sufficient. So…
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Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit. First ready seats.
Hurray! First two seats for Kawasaki ZR400/ZR550 Zephyr cafe-racer kits are ready. My idea was to make the 400/550 seat look like a brother to Zephyr 750 seat even as their fiberglass bases have a…
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Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit. Moulds and first parts.
And here we go: moulds for Kawasaki Zephyr 400-550 cafe-racer kit are ready, as well as the first two sets of real fibreglass parts. And even if it took longer than I was expecting (and…
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Kawasaki Zephyr 400/550 carburetors: exploded view.
Some time ago I was refreshing Keihin carburetors for the Kawasaki Zephyr 400/550. Nothing special, just ordinary cleaning, O-rings and gaskets replacing. However, it came to me that it’s a good chance to shoot another…
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Non-ordinary order.
Quite a lot of time has passed since I posted something about “Eight Ball” mirrors last time. It’s understandable, since mirrors are much smaller than cafe-racer kits and make smaller changes in motorcycle exterior. However,…
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