Cx500 Cafe Racer Project
Just a page on my cx500 project and its progress
Cx500 cafe racer project. New gaskets, water seal, oil & filter. Needs a bit more work than the honda cb and yamaha xs to get the well known straight café racer line because of the higher front. Universal art designer sacha lakic has created one of the most beautiful cx500 café racers ever. The honda cx500 in its base form is not that impressive.
Sacha lakic, realizzatore della cx500 cafe racer, è un amante del motore a v 80 gradi della honda che ha voluto ulteriormente evidenziare con uno collettore a y realizzato su misura. Посмотрите больше идей на темы «мотоцикл, мотоциклы café racer, мотоцикл bobber». Just when you thought you’d seen it all, here comes the honda cx500 cafe racer project by lakic design. Sacha’s honda cx500 gts is everything a good cafe racer should be.
Have extra set of down pipes so you could put short/st year 1978; See more ideas about cx500 cafe racer, honda cx500, cafe racer. 2,776 likes · 32 talking about this. I am extremely impressed with your craftsmanship.
Tax & mot exempt on sorn. Best of all is they include diagrams of the seat pan. Our crk 500 cafe racer kit transforms the honda cx500 into a great looking old school racer. See more ideas about cafe racer, bike, motorcycle.
I’ve been a bit distracted by all of the other cx project bikes i have seen that look amazing and have decided i should concentrate on the original plan of attack which is to build a bike that is a. Found some cafe racer seats for the cx500 that look the biz and are reasonably priced. The cx500 by lakic design is a truly unique and magnificent beast of a cafe racer based off of a honda cx500. The engine has been rebuilt and refreshed, this is the main plus point.
• what was the design concept and what influenced the build? While on paper it sounds like a milestone in. The jog in the cx frame has always been a bone of contention for me. When garth allison built his incredible cx500 cafe racer he was inspired by a bike built more than 16,000km away.
The owner wanted a cafe racer but had to delay his project for five years due to the arrival of his two kids. This is the result of a couple of beer and hard work. Good motad exhaust now fitted to bike. I was building it into a cafe racer style bike but don`t have the time currently.
1981 honda cx500 this cx500 marks the first in the purpose built moto signature series. The new parts include clip ons, rear shocks, seat and rear tyre. 500 cc engine 5 speed transmission disc brake front drum brake rear new battery new pistons and rings, custom hard ass seat, custom rear fender tail section. Our mission at the home of cafe racer kits is to help you to enjoy building your own custom motorcycle.
We can supply many of the more difficult to manufacture parts and complete cafe racer kits you will need for your motorbike conversion project. The idea behind this stemmed from a need to differentiate between the customs that roll out of my garage. The ace bars and single seat, coupled with the aluminium instrument housings and headlamp brackets create cool retro look. I wasn’t keen on building a cafe racer, especially with a cx500, because so many have already been done.
It has a mac 2 into 1 exhaust on it and comes with the jets and air filters to match. Also has 2 carb kits and a set of points along with everything pictured. 1980 cx500 custom 24,xxx miles (cafe racer project for wife) 1978 cx500 22,xxx miles (cafe racer project) my 1978 cx500 cafe racer project thread. See more ideas about bike, cafe racer, cool bikes.
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Here you will see a 1980 honda cx500 custom cafe racer motorcycle. I have been building this for the past 3 years and it has lots of new parts. It ran when i started taking it apart. See more ideas about cafe racer, racer, cx500 cafe racer.
This honda cx500 café racer by sacha lakic was one of the reasons to start with bikebrewers.com, so one of my first posts is about this awesome creation: For sale is my honda cx500 cafe racer project with v5. 1980 cx500 custom 24,xxx miles (cafe racer project for wife) 1978 cx500 22,xxx miles (cafe racer project) my 1978 cx500 cafe racer project thread. In many ways, the cx was a groundbreaking development in the world of motorcycling with its water cooled engine, electric start, and reliable shaft drive.
There is no battery and the tank is rusted. As the idea of purpose built moto has taken shape, there is an increasing difference in the amount of custom work The japanese manufacturers only venture into the world of horizontally opposed twins. V5 log book in my name.
It was the work of sacha lakic, a furniture and interior designer from luxembourg with a soft spot for motorcycles.