The ninth instalment of my first cafe racer project on a budget. First Road Test! I took delivery of my original 1981 Kawasaki Z750 on Friday 23rd February 2018 and 181 days later on 17th August 2018 I took out my first custom built Cafe Racer for its road test. Being my first bike-build project, my main goal was to build a bike which looks aesthetically pleasing to me and hopefully appreciated by others too. Equally I wanted to keep the cost of the build as low as possible w

The eighth instalment of my first cafe racer project on a budget. Problem Solving! leaking carburettors, mis-firing, spongy brakes. Progress has been slow over the last two months due to holiday and other competing projects and also trying to resolve some build problems which I had not anticipated. In my last update I refitted the carburettors and got the engine running after a fashion and my next job was to fit a Dynojet stage-3 kit (£120) and a carb rebuild kit (£60). It so