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CB500/550 / Honda cb550 cafe racer build northern Ireland bike finished

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:26:24 AM »

My father in law has raced bikes and sidecars all his life and has got himself hooked with the street tracker/cafe look, We are currently building about to finish a 1979 yamaha xs500 he had laying in his yard for over 10 years, the plan for it was do it as cheap as we can but still nice and use it as a spare bike. ( i will post pics of this also) i finally bought this 1978 cb550 four looked a good clean bike for its age plans are to make into a cafe racer. pics to fallow later today

Here is northern Ireland there is such a small market for bike parts unlike america which has everything i could ever want i want club man handle bars for my bike but as there is no where here sells them im not sure what ones to go far as there a few different pull backs etc finding parts here is very hard second hand or new.

bike is stock bar

dragstar handle bars
motad exhaust

so far the only problem we could fit with the bike is its not charging and it already had new regulator/rectifier but still it was not charging we then tested the system and found that the new r/r was not the correct one for the bike, bought a new one and the bikes was now charging but under load (headlight on) best we could get was 11.6 volts which not good so did more tests ad found the stator to be faulty so after a bit of searching on the internet it seemed i would have to get it rewond at around £100. Then by sure luck a friend of my father in laws said he has a cb 550 four in bits which is the only model with the same alternator and he gave me his for free. Best of all his was in great working order and fixed my chartering issue

when i picked up the bike