progress . . .the wheels

I have still a way to go to complete this project we have finished the front end that is the front shocks and front wheel.  i managed to find a Honda CB400N front end which not only is the right size and length but also felt right in terms of compressing and rebound. the forks are a 33mm in stead of the 35mm i had from the CB750, these were substantially longer and a whole lot heavier. fortunately Johan from Wayne Heasemen racing managed to locate some new spokes for me order them and 2 weeks later hey they arrived. thanks guys. its a good thing that my son Josh works at a bicycle shop, between myself and him we got all the spokes in thier correct place aswell as true the wheel. it looked really awesome .

i am hoping to get a suzuki gamma exhaust and modify this slightly so as to get that underslung racing exhaust , there is still lots out standing so just keep watching this space .

Our first 2 complete cafe racers

We bought 2 ax100 delivery bikes for R2000ea (really good price) these bikes are 100cc 2strokes. We saw potential in them and we got them, at first they were really slow (about 80km/h top speed). So we first worked on the speed and mechanical problems.we also had to fit a new front end to fit disc brakes (new wheels brakesand the resy. The drum brakes sucked. We did the squish on the cylinder head and ported the exhaust port. We now getting a top speed of 118km/h. Then we worked on the looks the cafe racer style, we got fiber glass seats and repainted the bikes yellow. Cleaned up the wires and took off the side covers and also changed it to premix. We still need to do stickers and next we going to bore it to a 125cc with a performance pipe :D chk the photos from begining to end.

The rear wheel

The rear wheel spokes were so badly rusted that i had to cut them off  and that means that i would have to replace the spokes and build the rear wheel all over again. i also had the rear hub sand blasted as it had a bit of corrosion on the surface and the paint work looked bad so off it went to get all the old paint off , the rear swing arm also needed attention so i had sanded it down by hand after grinding off the passenger pegs . painted it black and greased the internals and stuck it back on the frame it looks just soooo sweet. The tank is from an AX100 and had a seriously thick coat of paint on it so it also needed to be sanded. stilll not complete yet. lots of hard work but very enjoyable,

starting out. . can it be done . could i build it?

This is how it started out i bought this old Suzuki TS185 from a bloke . Got it at a good price. I like the old 2 strokes great bikes , fond of the air- cooled versions . Less hassles water pumps radiators , hoses . Temperatures and so on.

Starting my cafe racer blog . . .mmmmmh

So i have always wanted to start a blog here goes.. I was wondering if it were possible to build a 2-stoke cafe racer from an old air cooled scrambler . so i bought this Suzuki TS 185 for a great price and started to strip it down . i knew i would be in for a few challenges . Changing the seat , changing the front end so as to have a disc set up instead of the drum ( doesn't stop for Shyte ) and the tank . my greatest challenge would be the exhaust . . mmmm. so here are some pics of my progress