ZX10 Cafe Racer Build

[kev@vcm]

Dave G i had the pleasure of viewing your bike at Extreme Creations mate WOW what a great bike well done to you and ben

[DaveG]

Cheers dude but its got nothing to do with me!

I turned up with a bike and an idea and the rest is Ben. The man's a fucking geenyus

[STK51]

Sometimes Ben doesn't even need the idea! Blokes a Legend!

The bike is looking the goods, keep them coming!!!

[wackyrider]

Any updates on this Dave?

[DaveG]

I haven't been able to get down to Ben's and I know he's been flat out with other bits. But the top clamp and subframe have been anodised and headers the headers went off to be power coated last week.
Stuff left to do is make a new water overflow tank, finish the seat, re-shape the side panels that are left after the plastics have come off and get the thing painted.

All the new bits like rearsets, grips, mirrors and lights are all ready. It's just a bit of tarting it up and it's good to go.

Going to get it stuck into Rapid too as Geoff is apparently keen to see it and we can re balance the POV of Bens work too. I'll see if I can get some pic from Ben.

[DaveG]

Things are getting closer to ride day and the final tweaks are being put to the new build parts before it goes off to get some lipstick at the paint shop

Anodising and powder coating is done. This is the top clamp now and you can see the V-rod headlight is sitting back nicely against the frame. It looked like it might stick out a mile to start because of the air intake but Bens master touch has fixed it up nicely.

[DaveG]

This is pretty trick - check out the indicators and where the ignition now sits:

[DaveG]

The box Ben built to sit inside the new subframe is brilliant - all the electrics, PC and new lithium battery fit pretty snuggly inside

[BANDITROD]

thats looking good mate

[DaveG]

And this is the side before it gets painted up. The wheel base looks a lot shorter for some reason and without all that weight on the front, it's going to feel like it wants to mono everywhere. However sod that - I need to master a mono a lot better than i have before i risk that seat unit getting closer to the tarmac

[xa-mont]

that subframe gets me hard

[ozzy1100]

/\/\/\ what he said /\/\/\/\

[K6Thou]

Very nice mate.

[hooligan]

You had better be riding this to NFC this year Dave, I wanna see it in person.
Nice work, Ben and Dave.

[StuNVA]

Very nice, that whole tail section is porn.

[Surt]

nice bike mate!
the subbie looks familiar lol

[DaveG]

You had better be riding this to NFC this year Dave, I wanna see it in person.
Nice work, Ben and Dave.

Yep will do - I missed out last year and def in need of a decent trip out.

[DaveG]

There's been a bit of a delay on getting the painters sorted. So Ben's multi-talented tool kit means he's started the job himself. These are only shots of the front and back guards but the tank and tail unit will have similar detail.

Some carbon vinyl is coming from the states so the stripe matches the pattern on the guards. Then its a final coat, on with the seat and it's finished.

Well nearly. I'm going to get some round indicators for the back end as the ones off the original bike don't look ideal.

[LKC73]

Been away for a while, very nice build mate!

[wackyrider]

Coming along nicely Dave