Post by trinorman on Aug 30, 2009 19:57:25 GMT -5
Let me be the first to post some photos on your new forum.
I just posted some photos on my Photobucket page of my 1984 Ascot that I converted into a café racer over the past year. It’s not an obvious choice for a café bike, but I always liked the engine, gearbox, and driveshaft of this bike. I bought the bike last spring just for this project. I thought you might be interested as I think it is probably one of a kind.
The last photo in the album is my first café bike that I built back around 1970 from a 1965 Honda CB77 Super Hawk. I fitted it with a Paul Dunstall tank, seat and clip-ons, among other things. It took me a few years to get around to building my second one, this Ascot, which was a bit more involved.
The Photobucket links are (the first is individual photos, the second a slideshow):
photobucket.com/AscotCafeRacer
s85.photobucket.com/albums/k55/trinorman/Honda%20Ascot%20Cafe%20Racer/?albumview=slideshow
Here is what I did to it:
1. Custom twin exhaust system using chrome Shadow header pipes with 17” Emgo megaphone style mufflers. Custom pipes fabricated to join headers to mufflers.
2. K&N air filter and DynoJet jetting kit.
3. Seat from a 1989/90 Honda GB500 with about 1” removed from the front to allow for a longer tank.
4. Gas tank and side covers were custom made by Fred Muhlenhort of Racetec in Oxnard, California near where I live. They are strictly one-off items that Fred designed after I showed him photos of the look I was going for. Fred makes a lot of the gas tanks for AMA Pro Flat Trackers among other things.
5. Raask (Sweden) rearset foot pegs.
6. Tommaselli adjustable clip-ons. I’d like them lower for the true look, but at my age my back can’t take them much lower, so a compromise. Front suspension is stock, albeit moved up about 30mm to accommodate the clip-ons mounted above the triple tree.
7. Alloy headlight brackets (Tommaselli copies) with a 7” classic British headlight assembly.
8. Stainless steel mini speedometer and tachometer. The speedo has warning lights for oil pressure, high beam, neutral and turn signals.
9. Handlebar mounts removed from top triple tree and then polished. The fuses were relocated to inside the headlight.
10. Both wheels stripped of the black paint to the natural aluminum.
11. Norton Commando fork boots.
12. Lower fork legs polished.
13. Digital water temperature gauge.
14. Alloy fenders, front and rear, with hand fabricated mounts.
15. Lucas type alloy tail light.
16. Hagon rear shocks.
17. Stainless steel front brake line (not fitted in photos).
18. Roller bearing headset
19. Lots of time and TLC!
Hope you like it!
Chris
I just posted some photos on my Photobucket page of my 1984 Ascot that I converted into a café racer over the past year. It’s not an obvious choice for a café bike, but I always liked the engine, gearbox, and driveshaft of this bike. I bought the bike last spring just for this project. I thought you might be interested as I think it is probably one of a kind.
The last photo in the album is my first café bike that I built back around 1970 from a 1965 Honda CB77 Super Hawk. I fitted it with a Paul Dunstall tank, seat and clip-ons, among other things. It took me a few years to get around to building my second one, this Ascot, which was a bit more involved.
The Photobucket links are (the first is individual photos, the second a slideshow):
photobucket.com/AscotCafeRacer
s85.photobucket.com/albums/k55/trinorman/Honda%20Ascot%20Cafe%20Racer/?albumview=slideshow
Here is what I did to it:
1. Custom twin exhaust system using chrome Shadow header pipes with 17” Emgo megaphone style mufflers. Custom pipes fabricated to join headers to mufflers.
2. K&N air filter and DynoJet jetting kit.
3. Seat from a 1989/90 Honda GB500 with about 1” removed from the front to allow for a longer tank.
4. Gas tank and side covers were custom made by Fred Muhlenhort of Racetec in Oxnard, California near where I live. They are strictly one-off items that Fred designed after I showed him photos of the look I was going for. Fred makes a lot of the gas tanks for AMA Pro Flat Trackers among other things.
5. Raask (Sweden) rearset foot pegs.
6. Tommaselli adjustable clip-ons. I’d like them lower for the true look, but at my age my back can’t take them much lower, so a compromise. Front suspension is stock, albeit moved up about 30mm to accommodate the clip-ons mounted above the triple tree.
7. Alloy headlight brackets (Tommaselli copies) with a 7” classic British headlight assembly.
8. Stainless steel mini speedometer and tachometer. The speedo has warning lights for oil pressure, high beam, neutral and turn signals.
9. Handlebar mounts removed from top triple tree and then polished. The fuses were relocated to inside the headlight.
10. Both wheels stripped of the black paint to the natural aluminum.
11. Norton Commando fork boots.
12. Lower fork legs polished.
13. Digital water temperature gauge.
14. Alloy fenders, front and rear, with hand fabricated mounts.
15. Lucas type alloy tail light.
16. Hagon rear shocks.
17. Stainless steel front brake line (not fitted in photos).
18. Roller bearing headset
19. Lots of time and TLC!
Hope you like it!
Chris