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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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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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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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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The view I had pleasure to look at, relaxing in chair with legs stretched after day of work and some ride during which I spontaneously did the ton couple of times. Not that I intended…
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I made quite a few cafe-racer kits for Zephyr 750 and brown seats are usually ordered much less often than black ones. It is around 1:10 proportion. When I was sending the last kit with…
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Earlier models of Kawasaki KZ650 as well as its even more famous brothers Z900, Z1 and Z2 (KZ900, KZ1000, Z750) have roller timing chain which, unlikely to modern silent timing chains (also known as hy-vo…
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Once I finished with Honda CBX550 wheel’ hubs polishing I gave hubs to the paintshop, where all unpolished surfaces were painted with same heat resistant paint I used for Honda CB815 engine. Why bother with…
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Remember this post of mine about velocity stacks that simultaneously are adapters for dual pod filters? Since that I modified blueprints for better fitment and ordered parts to be made on CNC lathe and I…
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