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500 K cafe racer conversion - build thread
Ewan 500 K1:
I need a rear light. Originally I was going to build one into the back of the seat unit. Now I quite fancy putting a LED combination rear light/brake light/ indicator strip onto the rear of the hoop under the seat. So I'm now looking looking for a flexible LED combo strip ... anyone got any info on UK suppliers ? , preferbaly a plug and play unit that is 12v ready and dosent need any additional electrical fittings. OR .... plan C is to cut out a section of the hoop, fit lights inside the hoop and then find some sort of sultion to make a lens to replace the cut out section of the hoop... probably a bit ambitious for me, but if anyone has ideas on how that could be acheived, I'd be keen to hear. Photo of rear end and side view of the bike as it is this morning attached
Ewan 500 K1:
or maybe something like this mock up.... (laterz .. found something that will do as the mock up pictures show.. ..ending up getting an Z Flex LED flexible array from radiantz in USA, which took like months to arrive because of a #@%$ up as UK customs , cost a fortune after shipping charges, cuty and some obscure cahreg from shippers to deal with custom, see picture below.. its like that without the indicator ends. Also got a wee bit of circuit from radiantz so that it is a combined raer light / barke light see http://www.radiantz.com/index1.html?c6.html&1. God knows if its legal. If push comes to shove and its not leagal I'll put something esle on it for its MOT)
Ewan 500 K1:
Rear frame hoop ands battery/electrics tray welded up, with gussets behind top shock mountings to mount indicators on
Ewan 500 K1:
took the head off to polish it and noticed one of the bolts was snapped, sheared of flush at barrell surface , so barrells had to come off to weld a nut to the broken stud , so good time to paint the engine . Broke a bloody piston ring reassembling the engine = £80 for 4 new ring sets, new gasket set = £40 = £120 for the sake of a broken bloody bolt (dont tell the wife) Good news was that I dropped a bit of the piston ring down the barrell into the crank case but managed to fish it back out with a telescopic magnet thingy , #@%$ was I happy that I didnt have to split the crankacse to fin it ;D ;D.
Engine all polished an painted and now back in the bike ready to start a complete rewire job. Its 40 years to the day come Jan 1st next year since the bike was registered, so thats become the target date for completion of the cafe racer conversion / restoration. Still to do : rewire, powder coat frame, refine dual disc set up, find some rear sets, rechrome the cut down front and rear mudguards.
Got the engine back in the frame today and put togeather a mock up of the end result. Keeping the old tank the way it is for a bit of patina
Ewan 500 K1:
ordered a set of avon road runners (120/90 rear and 100/90 front) for the shiney new rims today , some tarozzi rearests to hang off the passenger footpegs, all the wiring bits and pieces and a motobatt sealed unit battery. Was going to get a new camchain tensioner, chain and sprocket ... but the wallet cannae stretch to 220 euros that CMSNL want right now
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