Hunting to find info on the missing parts from my bike, I’ve collected a few of these as reference. What I notice in this one, is that my side panels are missing some sort of ‘intake grate (black on this blue bike).
After a lot of work, documented here on VW Vortex.. he’s got one hell of a cool result!
Then it starts to look like this. Very clean.. classy. I’m still split on going retro-rat or going with super-clean (but I want to do silver, not perl white). Decisions.. decisions…
Ordering some parts
I want to get this thing going… and the first step will be to get me some of those clubman bars. Found these, hopefully I did not get douched on the price ($52.00 with shipping), from Oregon.
I’m thinking that I can mount them either up or down, depending on how radical I want to make this thing.
At least I’ve taken the first step, and decided that I am NOT going to ‘restore’ the bike, but instead build my first ever Cafe Racer Replica. God help me. At least this will be A LOT less expensive than playing with sports cars, and more mentally challenging than watching Television (gack).
Tonight, I think I’ll really dig into this thing by doing some sanding and bobbing the back fender off.
And a couple more interesting ‘inputs’ on final styling:
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And one more idea for the road:
That’s my white KZ400 there. I’m very glad you enjoyed the build, but hope you’ve had a chance to check back at the many changes made since that last photo you have! It really was a great bike that I unfortuantely sold close to a year ago, and am currently trying to get back 🙂