66 CB77 Cafe Racer

byrdman76 · Post by **byrdman76** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:45 am

Gun wrote:dig the army green.

Thanks man - unfortunately its just self etching primer but the army green will definitely be on one of my future projects. I was thinking the same thing once I started to put it back together.

Gun · Post by **Gun** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:07 am

yeah, it's pretty obvious from the pics that the green is no sort of finished paint, but it adds a bit of a WWII cycle feel to the superhawk.

I really like the cafe racer concept. I think my next one is going that route. Hopefully by then i've acquired a bit more knowledge and money!

byrdman76 · Post by **byrdman76** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:38 pm

Made a little more progress on the CB. Rebuilt the wheels and added some rubber. Made a form and glassed up the tail section. Still need to finish it with Dyna and smooth everything out. The plan is to french in the tail light. We'll see how it turns out - if I Dont like it I'll mount a small retro round light with polished trim on the outside.

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byrdman76 · Post by **byrdman76** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:12 pm

smoothed out the tail section with some short hair fiberglass filler and smoothed everything out with some light weight filler. I was able to work up a tail light from a tractor trailer rubber housing and an automotive marker light. Cant wait to see this thing with some paint!

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byrdman76 · Post by **byrdman76** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:34 pm

How about some high pipes.

davomoto · Post by **davomoto** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:54 pm

Love the high pipes! Where did you get them? Or did you make them?

davomoto

byrdman76 · Post by **byrdman76** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:46 pm

davomoto wrote:Love the high pipes! Where did you get them? Or did you make them?

davomoto

Thanks for the comments Dave - I found a guy in the area that had a mandrel exhaust bender. The guy was absolutely great and allowed me to pretty much have free run of his shop to graft the pipes onto the bike. It was pretty crazy a first when he said "sure just cut with the wet saw and then clean it up on the belt sander so you can tack it like you want it with the Mig" Needless to say I was blown away and have made a friend for life. Now I'm watching craigslist for a CT70 project for him.

We made a pipe for each side out of a few bends and then made two new pipes out of two single tubes. Now I just have to decide whether or not I'll go with chrome, ceramic silver, or header wrap.