750 cafe project

[courier11sec]

Great work!
Keep it up.

[Fudquest]

Dude, that looks great. I thought to do that with my bike, but chickened out. The sad thing is, I'm actually good with fiberglass.

Well done... see ya' at the Ace.

[beergood]

Fudquest, I like that cream color. Very clean looking bike.

Seeing as we had sunshine for the first time in a while I rolled my bike out of the garage to get a look at it in the sunshine.









Gotta say I am happy with the result. It's a little crude and rough, kinda like her owner. Now that I have it about 75% where I want it to eventually end up I can concentrate on smaller tasks on an individual basis (replacing parts, polishing others and chasing rust, etc.). Then, oh, I don't know, 50 years down the road I'll be done.

Someone is going to inherit a sweet ride.

[beergood]

And sadly, here are the two sisters, side by side, waiting for spring.



And the other two girls waiting for spring:

[gsgeezer]

I think it looks great. I like the yellow and black, it really makes the bike look custom and is not just the usual two tone. (I like orange, I painted my last bike sunset orange metallic.)

Looking forward to seeing the result. Why not accent the seat with yellow to key in with the tank?

[ZOMBIEEATER]

I'm very impressed with the way your tank turned out!

[80GS1000]

That tank turned out sweet! Nice work.

[byrdman76]

Fudquest, I like that cream color. Very clean looking bike.

Seeing as we had sunshine for the first time in a while I rolled my bike out of the garage to get a look at it in the sunshine.









Gotta say I am happy with the result. It's a little crude and rough, kinda like her owner. Now that I have it about 75% where I want it to eventually end up I can concentrate on smaller tasks on an individual basis (replacing parts, polishing others and chasing rust, etc.). Then, oh, I don't know, 50 years down the road I'll be done.

Someone is going to inherit a sweet ride.

It turned out very nice beergood. Did the cafe bars allow you raise the forks up in the tripple tree or will it still hit the bars. I want to raise the forks up on my 550 but the bars become an issue the way i have them flipped over.

[beergood]

The bars do sit in the way of raising the fork. I am considering going over to clip-ons.

[byrdman76]

The bars do sit in the way of raising the fork. I am considering going over to clip-ons.

Have you ever heard of someone cutting the springs inside the fork tubes? It seems like it would work...

Do you know of any adverse effects?

[RotaryRodder]

Have you ever heard of someone cutting the springs inside the fork tubes? It seems like it would work...

Do you know of any adverse effects?

bottoming out your suspension

[beergood]

You would definitely reduce available fork travel, without adding any extra stiffness. I think you could bottom out your suspension quite often.

The front suspension on my 500 is real soft. I haven't gotten around to upgrading it, and I can assure you that it sucks when your front bottoms out.

[isaac]

I like the idea of just raising the fork up a bit. You could always use thicker oil or add more pressure to the air shocks to counteract it, and might even end up with better handling in the process.

[byrdman76]

I will see how much preload travel I currently have on the front suspension and then see how much difference there is between preload and bottoming out. I just havent had any issues with it bottoming out - if anything it is too soft and has way to much travel.

If there is enough travel remaining between the two, I do not see how there could be a problem cutting the distance in half and removing that much of the spring. Cutting the spring should not effect the original spring weight - should it?

[Dink]

I will see how much preload travel I currently have on the front suspension and then see how much difference there is between preload and bottoming out. I just havent had any issues with it bottoming out - if anything it is too soft and has way to much travel.

If there is enough travel remaining between the two, I do not see how there could be a problem cutting the distance in half and removing that much of the spring. Cutting the spring should not effect the original spring weight - should it?

What you mean apart from de-tempering the spring??
Call progressive and buy a new shorter spring instead!!! best of both worlds better suspension control and lower ride height.

Dink