Honda Goldwing Cafe Racer Seat Built

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Honda goldwing cafe racer seat built. ‘this build actually started two years ago when a rather large bloke, (6’6” and about 320lbs) walked into my shop by chance,’ craig recalls. Each saddle is completely custom made one at a time. “after enough goldwing decompression from the 1000 i built in 2015, a client called wanting to resurrect his ’83 model,” says h garage owner and builder, scott. They’re not trying to be race replicas.

Characteristic tank, attempt to create a straight line of the tank and seat and a cafe racer fairing. It was also nice to see café racer parts for a host of japanese bikes, ranging from a custom seat for your honda cx500 to bang up to date face lift kits for your yamaha xv950. Had on on my 1981 cb750 super sport. At around the same size and weight as an aircraft carrier, it’s designed to ferry similarly overweight bikers down endless miles of flat interstate in.

Full instructions come with your kit to guide you. Agile, powerful, loaded with features, and best of all exciting to ride. The “tank” and “side panels” are original but the grp seat unit and front mudguard are aftermarket items sourced from ebay and all are painted in rosso corsa (ferrari red) with a gloss white racing stripe running down the centre of the bike. This is another of hartco’s famous hand built custom seats constructed to the rider and passenger’s height, weight and inseam.

Rune had always wanted to build a custom ‘wing for himself. This new gl1800 honda goldwing seat and be purchased with heaters and with the hartco upright, thinner passenger’s backrest. And he can do the understated stuff incredibly well too, as this 1976 honda goldwing café racer shows. But now a whole subculture has built up around ‘naked gold wings’,.

1982 honda goldwing gl1100 customized into a cafe racer style bike. They’re machines built for the way we ride today, and that offer a fresh, new take on style too. Photos courtesy of diego bermúdez of revival of the machine and builder pablo sebastián. It has a new street tracker style seat & fairing from hotwing glass.

After all, at 190 cm tall — about 6’3″ — rune had to take his size into account. Check out, their kickstarter blog found at the top of the page, it’s all in german, but there’s some great vids posted. Cafe racer kits and cafe racer spare parts. It’s got a few minor changes, such as the seat and sissy bar, but i cannot determine if it was built by the same guy or if it was sold and modified a bit more:

The script on the “tank” is the word “honda” written in kanji (modern japanese characters). Here is what seems to be another photo of the gold wing chopper from the top of this thread. Rebuilt carbs, balanced, electronic ignition, and many other new parts. When garth allison built his incredible cx500 cafe racer he was inspired by a bike built more than 16,000km away.

One of the last bikes you’d expect to get the café racer treatment is the honda gold wing. It’s hardly a nimble machine, and for most owners, the customizing stopped after fitting saddlebags and a vetter fairing. A lot of work has gone into the transformation of this bike. Cafe racer parts us dimecitycycles.com

It’s all the same just make the adjustments needed for your bike. The honda goldwing is a tourer quite rare to find some transformation on this basis is even more difficult, but those engaging in this kind of projects often get good results because those who do have expertise and know where to intervene and how to do it Earlier this month they debuted the honda gl1000 goldwing build they created. “it was pretty mangled from an accident the year prior, but he was ready to get back on the horse and had been inquiring about an h garage build for a few years”.

Below, we get the full story on this custom goldwing! It was the work of sacha lakic, a furniture and interior designer from luxembourg with a soft spot for motorcycles. Honda gl1000 by adam’s custom shop. Powder coated frame, tank, radiator, covers and brackets.

The honda gl1000 goldwing may not seem like the best candidate for a cafe racer build. Sacha’s honda cx500 gts is everything a good cafe racer should be. New timing belts, fork seals, fork bearings, cables, speedometer, controls, coils, wires, plugs, tires, stainless steel exhaust and seat. Second featured build by the team from sur les chapeaux de roues.

25 inches 1974 1979 honda gl1000 goldwing solo cafe racer seat 1979 1983 honda gl1100 goldwing low profile cafe racer seat 28 1979 1983 honda gl1100 goldwing low profile solo cafe racer seat custom goldwing cafe racers by hotwing glass bikebound. Built for the way we ride today. Honda gold wing cafe racer. We were aiming for a cafe / brat styled bike with a little ratness to it, ithout going overboard.

Those old school cafe racer fairings are so cool and inexpensive. It’s a given some seat pans are quicker and easier to make from sheet metal but for this type, i have the seat wrap over the frame so fiberglass is my weapon of. Like the k1100lt the goldwing isn’t a typical starting point for a cafe racer build. Designed using latest cad technology and built on precision jigs, you can be sure the parts will fit correctly saving much time and head scratching during the build.