Nightrider '84 KZ750 LTD Shafty Cafe

thanks heaps mates
nah i aint gunna brace the swingarm, reckoning its short enough to do without bracing, am i wrong?

marching on

borrowed the seat lock system from my b12

everything goes suzuki

fabbing the taiil light housing and all

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strenghtening elements for the seat

a patch for the yoke

Ingenious Surt, you dont seem to keep still for long :lol:

Surt wrote: thanks heaps mates
nah i aint gunna brace the swingarm, reckoning its short enough to do without bracing, am i wrong?

It might be considered bordering on the criminal to leave it standard when everything else has had a touch .... :laugh:

heat treated/arti-aged

tappered and tidied up

welded

Puffin wrote: Ingenious Surt, you dont seem to keep still for long :lol:

Surt wrote: thanks heaps mates
nah i aint gunna brace the swingarm, reckoning its short enough to do without bracing, am i wrong?

It might be considered bordering on the criminal to leave it standard when everything else has had a touch .... :laugh:

is it an official demand on behalf of the KZ riders society?

Would you feel happy leaving one stone unturned?

Surt wrote:

It might be considered bordering on the criminal to leave it standard when everything else has had a touch .... :laugh:

is it an official demand on behalf of the KZ riders sosciety?[/quote]



:laugh: I would say so yes

strenghtening elements welded

the firewall /lol/ welded too

seams ground off and sanded

the tail lights gunna pop up a bit when led panel added

the seat/dead man's chest combo finished! (yo ho ho and a bottle of rum)

bluezbike wrote: Would you feel happy leaving one stone unturned?

i'd have felt pretty happy if i could do without that massive work like frame mod or fabbong the tank, zorst, and seat from scratch.
the goal wasn't to mod everything 'just because i can' or to look different, but to build an ideal cafe to my mind, a true old school cafe like they were back in 60s-70s. thats why i havent used multi pot brakes, fat forks, sssa etc.
i can brace the bloody swinger dead easy just show me 1 cafe racer back from 60s with the braced swinger? then i'll brace mine, even though im sick of the bike and eager to build a new frame and [braced] swinger from scratch for a similar [gpz 750\810] motor i have lying around

btw, is powder coating air cooled engine a good idea?