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Hello to anyone still following my build after so long of an absence! I just accepted a new job and must move in three weeks so I got in the garage and finally finished (mostly) by build! There are still things I want to change, like I didn't have time to put on the rearsets, want to change...

Thanks Two Many. While a lot of those are beyond my fab skills, I liked the triangular mesh ones. Would clean them up some though.

Just shopping around to possibly purchase a café racer seat that would not require a great deal of modification to the frame (as in weld in a new rear hoop) as my build is close to being finished and have decided to change from Tracker to Café. Just wondered if anyone has used OMAR's café...

Hello everyone! I have come to my biggest headache right now, my side covers. Unfortunately I got over zealous in my initial cutting off needless tabs and removed the side cover tabs. I was never a fan of them anyway, but it would make my life so much easier now if I just went back to using...

Zero, not sure if they are considered track bars or euro bars. Regardless, I am not happy with the way they look, too modern. I am going back to a café racer build, gonna put Clubman bars on it. The shocks I have on the rear aren't tall enough to give me the stance I wanted. Besides I...

I used BBQ paint with a small brush. Seemed the easiest way to paint the barrel with the engine still in frame. Looks good and should stand up to the heat. Pretty cheap too for a small jar at Lowes

Sure, let look and see how much I payed for it at Dime City and I'll send you a message.

Cleaned up nice! Just a suggestion, get the motor fired up first. If you need to rebuild it will be a lot easier to clean up the motor while its apart. Looking good, looking forward to see this build come together.

Thanks Zero. I was fortunate to have wheels in really good shape to start with. The front is the stock, rear is from xs500. Just a little hand polishing to clean em up.

Yes, sending power to key switch. All other fuses have power only when key is on the way I have it wired. The only part of wires that were swapped was the connection of the fuse panel to the main harness, the red/yellow wires and red wires were switched. All lights, horn, starter, etc are all...

Leo, correct. My red/yellow wires from the fuse box were connected to the red main lines in the harness. With all fuses out only the headlight fuse got power. So I will use the headlight fuse position as my main. I am probably not explaining myself very well.

Thanks for the suggestion, after further investigation I learned it is the side where the wires come in which is the side from the battery. I also found that the wires in the harness were swapped for the main fuse and the headlight! Instead of cutting further in the loom to correct it I swapped...

Need y'alls help with trying to figure this out. Installed new wiring harness from Mike's and upon turning the key got no power. No power going to the main fuse. Jumped the main fuse from the battery and everything works fine. Took apart the wiring harness to the fuse box and found the two...

Thank you Sir

Reassembling my build right now and realize that I am using a YZ clutch that has no clutch switch on my 82 special. Two questions: Can I run simply without a switch connected or will the lack of the nanny switch prevent starting? Do I need to connect the two wires to the switch so that I...

Got quite a bit done today. Treated some rust areas, and painted. Then I cleaned up my pipes from Gordon Scott, sprayed them with clear ceramic paint (wanted to keep all the beautiful fab/welds visible) and mounted them up. Also decided to go with the black seat instead of the brown. If...

So its been about two years since I have put any time into the build. I had some family matters to attend to. This week I have jumped back in and made some progress! I modified the rear XS500 wheel with help from 5twins, thank you, and it looks so much better with the 18 in wheel. I had my...

5twins, thank you again for all of your help. Put my build on hold for two years due to a family illness/death but today I finally mounted the 500 wheel on the bike. Your spacers worked great but I couldn't fit the brake side spacer in. Everything lines up great though. Gonna have tires...

I have ditched the clip one and raised the forks back up, going the scrambler route. Previous pics were when trying to decide brat or scrambler.

Sorry its been so long guys, project had to go on hold due to the illness of a family member. (Really makes you realize your priorities) But in an attempt to motivate myself I decided to try on my newly fabbed/painted tank from Pete's Ponies and my two seats. I am trying to decide between...