Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer

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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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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