How To Turn A Goldwing Into A Cafe Racer

It’s hardly a nimble machine, and for most owners, the customizing stopped after fitting saddlebags and a vetter fairing.

How to turn a goldwing into a cafe racer. I have a 1983 honda goldwing with the fairings and saddle bags. A lot of work has gone into the transformation of this bike. In fact, the builds that walk on the very thin line of keeping the essence of the base bike alive and yet propagate a whole new. See more ideas about goldwing bobber, goldwing, bobber.

I'm inspired by cafe racers, ww2 military bikes, and classic touring bikes. Below, we get the full story on this custom goldwing! See more ideas about cafe racer, nighthawks, racer. Transforming the bikes into cafe racers may require you to tinker on the parts.

We were aiming for a cafe / brat styled bike with a little ratness to it, ithout going overboard. My 77 project that will turn into a cafe racer/ bobber with a kick a forum for stories, pics and updates of your resto's. After all, at 190 cm tall — about 6’3″ — rune had to take his size into account. I want to strip it down, remove the fairings and saddle bags and make it look more like a cafe cruiser.

Honda gold wing cafe racer one of the last bikes you’d expect to get the café racer treatment is the honda gold wing. Cafe racer conversions are all the rage, and, as we all know, anything popular is often done very badly, but every now and then, someone with a bit more skill and a good eye puts his hand to the job and the finished product makes you sit up. Café racers come in a lot of different setups and prices, from bikes under $1000 and even up to $60,000 (like the cx500 café racer from sacha lakic). See more ideas about goldwing, cafe racer, cafe racer honda.

1982 honda goldwing gl1100 customized into a cafe racer style bike. See more ideas about touring bike, goldwing, racer. The honda gl1000 goldwing may not seem like the best candidate for a cafe racer build. This is a performance exhaust part that fits perfectly with your engine.

Clear title.copper red/black.chrome valve covers, timing belt covers and intake covers.new shoei fairing and hotwing glass seat.new tires and rear brakes with rear caliper rebuilt.new custom exhaust, super sport front fender and custom rear fender.new mirrors, turn signals, grips, spark plugs, oil and filter. Builder interview • please tell us a bit about yourself, your history with motorcycles. When i pull the fairing off will i have to get any extra parts or make any modifications so that the front will look half way decent? With this post i'll try to inspire cafe racer enthusiast to start working on their own low budget cafe racer.

It is always a delight to come across more and more custom builders and getting an opportunity to talk about them. This is a 1978 honda gl1000 goldwing, ustom cafe racer / street tracker styled bike. What other mods are usually made when converting the goldwing into a cafe cruiser? Honda cx500 cafe racer conversion kit turns your donor bike into a bike night eye catcher.

Be it a barn find, grampas hand me down or a bike being brought back to it's former glory.if you are restoring it, show us your stuff! That said, they are not easy to make attractive. In this post we list some of the most popular models which are very suitable to turn into a café racer and are affordable for the most of us. Even stripped of their fairings and hard bags, t

It has a new street tracker style seat & fairing from hotwing glass. Thats it, i want to buy a 1rst gen goldwing and turn it into a cafe racer, gimme ideas. Clear title.copper red/black.chrome valve covers, timing belt covers and intake covers.new shoei fairing and hotwing glass seat.new tires and rear brakes with rear caliper rebuilt.new custom exhaust, super sport front fender and custom rear fender.new mirrors, turn signals, grips, spark plugs, oil and filter. Double order of hot wings, please… not many people turn gold wings into café racers, but dave burgess of hotwing glass does, and we’re happy to be able to feature two of his unique creations.

A honda silverwing gl500 turned into a stunning cafe racer. If you want a smaller bike, the cb350 will make for a good ride, but you will not have the power some riders are. 1982 honda goldwing gl1100 customized into a cafe racer style bike. Photos courtesy of diego bermúdez of revival of the machine and builder pablo sebastián.

Below are the usual parts that are used in order to optimize a bike to be a cafe racer. Cb550 cafe racer sin city vintage cycles. An essential part of building any sort of chopper, bobber, cafe racer, brat bike, or rat rod is getting rid of all the unnecessary items. These bikes are built like trains, with loads of torque and bulletproof vitals.

Drag bars, bobbed tail, loud pipes, no bags, no fairing, no trailer, maybe geared lower.