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Still working at my XS650: Throttle, banjos and brake hose bought from Venhill - very good quality products: Crankcase breather - 12mm one way valve and RAM filter at the end: Brake hose that hits the tire when forks are suppressed. I will have to think something to fix this...

Thank you, wannabridin! Here some more details during my build: Rear engine mount - I spent an hours polishing the original parts, but re-chroming service was awfully done, new chrome fell off which make me mad and decided to build new ones from 6mm s. steel: Backside of the support...

What I hear is metal hitting metal... Did you check valves...movement, oiling and cam timing? At what temperature this noise starts to appear...?

Here I go again :) Headlight options: I picked old Hella (first one from the left) TruckLite headlight: With this mount, headlight stared at the Sun: I took the hinge from the second headlight and welded to Hella. Also I made at cnc aluminium mount to support all. Final...

Hi again! From few months I keep working on the engine. I started with simple check to see "what happened with the head" and ended up with doing total rebuild. What caused me to split the engine case and go deep was the cam chain that I wanted to replace. I have a new one which was already...

Good build, I like it! I would try to hide a little bit clutch and speedo cables. Eventually some smaller speed indicator... :cheers:

Some pictures of my progress... New stainless steel brake pistons: Brakes with new rebuild kits: Someone may need this (in mm...): Do not liked "Pyramid" bearings - very rough finish at rings inside... Drilled and zink plated brake disks. Drilling took much more time than I expected...

Very beautiful and clean looking bike! Congratulations!

Arsenal FC fan? :) Brave color choice, and good looking combination with black.

Perfect job jdizon, and amazing design skills!

Hi Paulrxs650, your bobber and cafe builds are very interesting and stylish! I'm not going for Cafe Racer even I found some of them awesome. My wish is to build more comfortable to ride bike with straight body position. Our roads here are not so good and this is my main consideration to put...

Assembled front shock absorbers: And rear brake pump with new repair kit: Wheels are ready too, working on speedo drive eliminator...

Hey, Carbon, thank you for reading the thread and the advice, I will keep that in mind! I made thin teflon shims to ensure distance between rectifier and electric box. The rectifier seems to me too big (didn't expected) and took a lot of space from the box. Again - ZINC :) This time...

Hi Lester! Your headlight looks nice! I have the similar one, from old bike, but when I placed next to original Yamaha's light I found it too big and wasn't sure how will looks like. You encourage me to think again about using it. :) Hristo

This hot zinc is horrible and I made a mistake with it. All threads were full with zinc and decided to clear all parts except fuel tank. Luckily zinc can be quickly removed with HCl acid: Drops of zinc (black cover) at the yoke bearing place: After 45 min:

Just got the metal parts from hot zinc cover: Tank is very well sealed - inside and outside. Hope my fuel filter will be clean for a very long time. This tank is not the original one, but I find it much better looking: Unfortunately at close distance things are not so good. A lot of...

Thank you for the feedback! @ oldbiker - engine mount has pretty simple design. I was inspired from link from here, a gay who produce and sells them. Then I tough how I can make it more easy and without special tolls to assemble. It took me few hours to turn round parts on lathe, and plates...

Hello everybody! I have been reading forum from some time, decided to start a new thread and this is my first post here. Let me introduce myself - my name is Hristo, 35, I am from Bulgaria - Eastern Europe. Don't have much experience with bikes - two years ago I restored an old Simson AWO...