Motocrossx23's GS750 Cafe Build

[Motocrossx23]

A little update:

Came home from work to find these at my door...

One had this:

One had this:

Expect some big updates within the next week, I have the next 6 days off and I plan on getting a lot done.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Oh man, if I had 6 days off to devote to the GS..... the wifey would give me a "Honey-do" list a mile long!
Keep the updates coming

 

[Motocrossx23]

Unfortunately, I haven't even touched it yet

 

[Motocrossx23]

BIG BUMP! AHHHH!!!!!

So.

This happened:

A little of this:

Definitely some of this:

Then THIS happened:

Which lead to this:

And this:

And finally to wrap of the night, this:

Tonight, the bike went from a GS750L / box of parts...

...to a cafe racer.

 

[Guest]

totally digging the seat cowl!
looks from your riding position in the pic that you're planning rearsets... right?

 

[Motocrossx23]

Right you are! I'm hoping to get a hold of some GSXR rear sets so I can fabricate a bracket off the frame. Right now though my focus is on the tail, seat pan and seat. The seat in the picture is actually a friend of mine's. It just so happened to fit perfect with the tail we made out of the 550E tank we cut up.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

There now, doesn't that feel good? She's looking like a bike again. Things just seek to move better once you get the creative juices flowing!

 

[Motocrossx23]

A little delay on this build, I decided to put some time/money into the SV for the time being. I needed new tires for my Mid-Ohio track day and figured while I had the wheels off I'd install the ZX6R rear shock, as well as progressive springs and new fork oil up front.

It'll be updated soon though!

 

[Motocrossx23]

Well....


The SV crashed (more so, I crashed it.)

So I sold it today, and now I have a nice chunk of change to spend on this project!

I was going to buy rearsets tonight but at the last second, a buddy of mine texted me and told me that his old R6-S rearsets are mine if I want them.

Free.

SWEET!

 

[Tim Tom]

Bummer about the SV man. Hope you didn't hurt yourself when you went down. Was it at the Mid-Ohio track day you were prepping it for??

On the bright side at least you have some motivation to finish the Cafe now. You needs yourself a bike .

The mock up pictures you posted are awesome btw. I love the lines of the tank seat and tail. Looking forward to seeing this one finished. Keep at it!

 

[Motocrossx23]

Broken finger, shoulder contusion, banged up knee.

Crashed on the street the day before Ohio, long story short it sucked. I'm okay though, it's just a bike lol.


Thanks for the compliments, I definitely am getting excited about this bike.

 

[Motocrossx23]

Update!

Had to widen the tank that we cut up for the fairing so it would fit over the sides of the frame:

Then I welded the tank/fairing to the metal pan I hammered over the frame as a bottom

Then I forgot to keep taking pictures, I laid another sheet starting at the top of the fairing carrying down the curve that I cut into the tank and then wrapped that sheet also over the frame. The bottom is now two layers thick. I welded up all of the seams throughout and then trimmed all the excess and ground down the welds. Made a mount point between the tank mount and frame so the fairing gets pinched in between.

Mocked up with my buddy's borrowed seat from his CB550 (the one in the background)

I still can't get over how clean the lines are now that we modded the frame, I love it.

 

[Erki]

Looks good. Tempts me to want a cafe style bike

 

[Motocrossx23]

So I got my rearsets in the mail, time to mock up some metal!

 

[JEEPRUSTY]

You do nice work. The Honda in the background is pretty sharp as well.

 

[Motocrossx23]

Thanks, I owe a lot of the credit to my buddy (the one with the Honda), this is a collaboration between him and I. I think we have quite a good vision, we think the same lol.

 

[Motocrossx23]

Got a lot of progress done tonight. My big hiccup was how to finish the tail of the bike. I didn't want to go in over my head with metal fabrication and what not, so after quite a break from this project it hit me....KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Cut that **** off and make life much easier.

Cardboard template mocked up and sprayed for awesomeness:

Welded up the top:

All welded up and ALMOST ready to be hit with the grinder and bondo'ed up:

Would've finished but we kinda ran out of wire lol...not a big deal, we got a TON done. Felt really good to be in the garage again.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Nice stuff, glad you are up and at 'em!

 

[Motocrossx23]

Thanks man, I hope to have some more updates on Monday

 

[Erki]

looks good so far. keep updatin.