Kits, kits, kits!
And here are three cafe-racer kits for which seats from the previous post were made. They all were received by their owners and as spring comes I hope to get some photos of modified Zephyrs….
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Kawasaki Zephyr 550 cafe-racer kit
Kawasaki Zephyr cafe-racer kits: seats, seats, seats.
Looks like it’s time to post another bunch of kits. Or to be precise: seats for kits. It so happened that at some moment I had three ready seats in my workshop: two for Kawasaki…
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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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