Your favorite examples of KZ Cafe's?

This guy locally is buying my KZ750 Shaftie (82LTD)- and he wants some custom work done, doesn't know quite what he wants, still a newb to it all. I want to give him some ideas, and really, it doesn't have to be just Cafe's- cool looking ideas for this bike will be very nice and appreciated!

Well, I've sorta cafe'd my LTD, as has Trav. I'm working on a tank and seat combo for mine. It's a fiberglass racing seat... from a race bike... that's actually been raced. Kind of a bold move, not sure how my old cracked ass is going to feel about that, hahaha.



I just added clip-ons .

I'd recommend a superbike bar, slip the fork tubes up a bit, maybe kluge together some rearsets like I did. It was cheap & easy, just took a little ingenuity.

Tapered roller steering head bearings are a great idea, and a fork brace can't hurt. My bike handled pretty damn good after I did these things, I switched to the GPz fork and clip-ons because I wanted it to handle better.

4-into-1 and pods are another performance option, of course. Beyond that is a set of GPz cams, 810cc pistons and a bore & hone... turbo... nitrous...

How much does this guy want to spend? Speed costs, how fast does he want to go?

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Here is my old KZ650 I sold earlier in the year.

Doesn't have to be cafe's you say?




Post edited by: caffcruiser, at: 2007/09/20 08:42

Here are some cool Kawis:





Post edited by: KZCSI, at: 2007/09/20 21:18

You guys are great- yes, not just KZs, just helpfull ideas, though he seems to favor the cafe' look, for the 750 Shaftie he is getting off of me!

An '82 KZ750 LTD shaftie... would that happen to be a Spectre? KZ750-N1? If so, the gas tank from an '82 GPz 750 should bolt right up, the seat might also, I'm not sure. The peg brackets are different, so my ghettotech rearset idea wouldn't work exactly the same way. Trav has fitted rearsets from some GSXCBRYZFZX something or other, search the gallery for recent pics of his bike.

A clubman handlebar would be easy to install, you could probably just reroute the stock cables so they lay right. If it's a Spectre you'll have to get creative to slip the fork tubes up through the clamps, since it uses headlight ears that go over the tubes themselves, as opposed to the LTD's heavy wire headlight bracket, and the air balance tube is crucial.

I have several headlight tube brackets, and I notice they are of varying lengths- the ones I have on there now are about 2"short!

CruisingRam wrote:

I have several headlight tube brackets, and I notice they are of varying lengths- the ones I have on there now are about 2"short!

If I recall, there are usually some spacers in there as well...

So IS it a Spectre?

guitargeek wrote:

I'd recommend a superbike bar, slip the fork tubes up a bit, maybe kluge together some rearsets like I did. It was cheap & easy, just took a little ingenuity.

Not to hi-jack this thread, but do you have better pictures of your homebrew rearset do-dads? I might try the same, but I'm kind sketchy on the details, and some decents pics of the finished product would give me a good idea how to do it.

This is the look he wants right here, after all the pics I sent him, this is the look he picked out that he likes best:



Post edited by: CruisingRam, at: 2007/09/21 10:38