KZ 650 CSR 81 brat/tracker or whatever

Been working on this for a while, still not quite done. A lot of people say the csr is not a good platform and I have run across many of problems because of it. Let me know what you think or any suggestions you have. If anyone is interested ill go through what i have done to the bike so far as well. Cheers

A few pictures from start to where i am now

i think it looks great, lower bars would be my only suggestion. What did you do for a tail light?

I had the stock tail light on there but it stuck up and looked goofy, plus the clearence wasn't high enough and it crushed the plate. I want to put bigger tires on too so I need some kind of side mount plate/tail light. I thought about lower bars but I hate leaning forward and I haven't found bars that are a good compromise.

Looks like a Honda rukus on steroids

If only, then I could avoid all the legal crap to get this thing on the road

Nice work. Looks tough. You made some great changes to the bike. The CSR is a difficult bike to modify...trust me, I know how it is.

You might try a LED tail light strip. I think it would fit nicely on the back of your bike. They come with integrated turn signals too. You should check it out.

Here is what I'm thinking for the tail light,

I checked out the led strips but it will still leave me in the same position with the license plate. I'm gonna have to have the plate at almost 90 degrees to the tail light it seems. The side mount plate laws in Connecticut are a little hazy about vertical mounting so I'd rather just avoid it.

Here is my plan for the mufflers:


And for tires I am gonna go with dunlop k70s, 4.00x18 on the rear and 3.50x19 on the front


The only real problem is money as usual but so far i only have about 700 into the bike including cost of purchase. Bike had 10k and only needed some adjustment to the bleed screws and now it runs pretty much flawless.