Hi everyone, this is our first attempt at a café racer. The bike I bought for $300, it has 40,000km on her and was in a guys garage for the past 20yrs. He tried to do some things but it was like you would expect a wreck to start with. We made the seat pan so far out of a sign I found at work, me made a small tray to hold the electronics under the seat from a gutter outlet from bunnings. We bought exhausts from mostyn industries in qld, we got a café speedo off, ebay along with a tan seat and bullet blinkers. I have sprayed the frame gloss black, and most of the smaller items, I have cut the front guard down and sprayed it and the tank british racing green, the motor will be sprayed matt black. I have attached some pics, and will put more up as I go. Please comment and give me any suggestions. With the speedo no matter what I did, I could not get the neutral light to light up, I even put a relay on it but it did not work. The exhaust had holes, so we have welded them up, and put titanium wrap on them. The budget was $1400 including the cost of the bike so far we are about $300 over that. The bike is currently all torn down, painted and ready to be re-built.
Hi spudley No I will keep the tank I gave just sprayed it British racing green, I was going look at other tanks but the budget didn't allow at this stage. I really wanted to get clip on bars and other foot pegs. Maybe on the next build What would you recommend for another tank
GSX 400 tank http://2fiftycc.com/index.php?threads/1985-gsx250-pub-cafe-racer-project.1620/page-5#post-15211
Looks good. The neutral light, being an LED is polarity sensitive, and will never work if hooked up in the original manner. If you can work out a way to reverse the polarity of the switching it will work, but otherwise just do without it.
Thanks murdo, I am going to have another look at the led on the rebuild but otherwise I will leave it
