Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Clamps for fork gaiters.
In my mind the image of cafe-racer (so to say its template) always has gaiters (boots) on front fork. So no wonder that every my cafe-racer has gaiters on front fork. And I also prefer…
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In my mind the image of cafe-racer (so to say its template) always has gaiters (boots) on front fork. So no wonder that every my cafe-racer has gaiters on front fork. And I also prefer…
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And here is plate for top yoke, ready to be installed. I filled all groves with black paint, then I “brushed” it with 600 grit sandpaper. After this plate was covered with two-component mat varnish….
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I finished previous post by indicating “excess” holes in top yoke, thus it’s logically to continue the story by showing how I am about to solve this “issue”. I have tachometer and speedometer for dashboard,…
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Continue to tidy up front end. This part is about top yoke and speedometer mount. As I already wrote, I use 41mm fully adjustable Kawasaki ZX6R front fork. However, I fit it to Kawasaki KZ650…
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While I am waiting for last parts for front fork to arrive, I am working on top yoke, dashboard and clip-ons. Clip-ons for this project came from two stroke sportbike Yamaha TZR250 (3MA as far…
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After I finished with front fender, I decided to tidy front end. I started from front fork. It’s 41mm fully adjustable (spring preload, compression damping and rebound damping) front fork from 1995 Kawasaki ZX6R. I…
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So it was said that photos from my prior post about front mudguard for KZ650 look like computer generated graphic, rather than photos. Sure, it was only a joke, but it gave me impetus to…
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I decided to not to number this “shopping” post as it contains only two items, one of which is curious only due to the way it arrived. This box is completely similar to the box…
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Only yesterday I finished front mudguard for our KZ650 cafe-racer. I could polish fender itself into the mirror as I did with its mount, yet with my intention to polish outer tubes of front fork…
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