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pauliexjr
Posts : 782 Join date : 2011-02-08 Location : Livingston
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:04 am | |
| I've been trawling Flea-bay for a suitable sports guard for the CB, but this is definately the way to go, truly inpirational, thanks! | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:23 pm | |
| Glad I could help mate. Anyway, last night I was chating with my mate Dave about my paint job and he has agreed to do it for me. This guy is the business and I'm luckey to get him to find time to do my bike for me. I revisited my seat and decided to go over it again to get it as good as I could to save Dave as much of his time as I could. I knocked it back with 120 grit first, then went over the whole thing with filler again, then sanded it back with a sanding block that rode over the high spots and flattened them down to the low areas to get them level. The seat base is level, not that it matters to much as its going to have foam on it. Then I took it in the house and flattened it off with 400 wet and dry under the running tap. Poppet wasnt to happy about doing it in the sink, and I had to sign a sworn statement I wouldnt leave a speck of dirt on the sink, counter tops, floor, well you know the score, I'm sure you get the same stuff where ever you are. I think its not a million miles away now, so Dave should be able to crack on. Mind you, saying that he'll take one look at it and start again. Oh well I tried. | |
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Pud
Posts : 359 Join date : 2011-06-06 Age : 57 Location : weeley, Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:33 am | |
| quality decided on colour yet ? | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:19 am | |
| I have buddy, I'm going with burnt orange, and gun metal grey with perl.
I gave my painter the colours I want and have given him free hand to come up with a killer paint sceeme | |
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Pud
Posts : 359 Join date : 2011-06-06 Age : 57 Location : weeley, Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:26 pm | |
| tasty cant wait to see it | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:31 pm | |
| Me too buddy | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:26 pm | |
| Well I got my frame back from powdercoat, but unfortunatly I hurt my back and have spent the last three days flat on my back. Today enough was enough and no matter what I wasnt going to be pissing in a bottle any more, and I was getting off my back and if need be, crawl my sorry arse down to the shed. My 14 year old son Nick placed the frame over the enging for me, and I told him what bolts went where. I'll go round and tighten everything up when I feel a bit better, but for now my best buddy has made an awesome job for me. I thought the powdercoating Impact coatings did was flawless and I couldnt have been more pleased with the frame. The Ducati fan sits in there really nice Future builds, I wouldnt even consider painting the frame. The told me after it was blasted, they zink coated it before powdercoat. I got my hybred cbr/cx pegs on as well as the coolant res They are quite cool and work great. Not rear sets but no biggy Everything from the engin brackets to the battery box looks fantastic Yep, I'm really pleased the the finish and proud of my Nick for doing his dad a solid. Check out Impact coatings for youre poder coating, they blasted, zink coated, the powdercoated all for £80.00. Awesome!!! | |
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Pud
Posts : 359 Join date : 2011-06-06 Age : 57 Location : weeley, Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:25 pm | |
| I agree picked my sons frame up last week quality of finnish was superb like you will never paint a frame again one thing I will mention because of the nature of the coating I recomend any one clean out any threads with the relevant tap or dye before attempting to bolt any thing on | |
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reznor
Posts : 3 Join date : 2011-09-11 Location : Somerset UK
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:41 am | |
| Love this thread. read it all the other night, cant wait for another picture filled update! R | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:04 am | |
| Have another one then mate This morning I got the battery mounts cut to size and fitted it, I also fitted the drive shaft and the swing arm An absolute must was on of my mate Damion's death or glory fighters stickers, as if it hadnt gone on theere would have been a stewards enquary. Anyway, I like it and have one on my blade so its all good I think I might need a bit of a hand to get it off the bench as its starting to get a bit heavy now. | |
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Pud
Posts : 359 Join date : 2011-06-06 Age : 57 Location : weeley, Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:24 am | |
| Was in Harwich today for the bike run could have called in and helped lift it down | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:41 am | |
| I could hear them all go by mate..... Gutted | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:21 pm | |
| He's a great bloke mate and always ready to help his old fella, but hes more into xbox mate. I attached the wiring loom this afternoon, it wasnt a big deal because I marked everything up when I reconditioned it I guess the only bit that took a bit of thought was wiring the stator generator, but even that was a doddle because it came with a drawing going quite well now, and I dont think it will be to long before its back on its wheels | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:35 am | |
| When I brought the CX it came with a really nasty front break set up. The res is a big boxy thing thats attached to the lever and doesnt leav much to make it look anything better than what it is. I like the set up on my 96 blade because the res can be changed for a nice ally job, so I got this one off ebay. I'll start cleaning and polishing the switch gear next. | |
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Pud
Posts : 359 Join date : 2011-06-06 Age : 57 Location : weeley, Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:04 am | |
| mmmmmmmmmmmmmm no comparison
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:37 pm | |
| ^^^Agreed^^^ I took a look at my switch gear that came with the CX and to be honest it was a bit on the sorry side. Its ally, I hate polishing ally, so I got my dremel out and started the mind crushing job of flatening it off. Even though its a bit grim in there I like to take reference photos because I just know I'll forget how it goes back together. Once I got all the old paint off I flattened it with 120 grit paper Then 400 wet and dry Then went down to 600 wet and dry And lastly solvo autosol It will look better when the grips and bar ends I have on order are on but for now I'm happy with the results. The other side will get the treatment tomorrow. The lever was a bit loose, up and down so I used a really thin washer just to shim it and it works fine now. I was a bit worried about the bars and levers etc. but I'm a lot happier now and think they are going to be fine, and wont let down the rest of the bike. | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:54 am | |
| My grips arrived today, I went with black as I thought they looked a bit more retro They were a nice tight fit to get on so they shouldnt slip around to much, but there was a small problem in that the throtle wouldnt go on far enough for the bar ends when they arrive. I thought I would take a bit out of the bracket with my round back file to move things over a bit. This should help the bracket to sit on the bar tube a bit better. Theres a weld on the bend of the bar that needs to be allowed for so the bracket needed to be undercut to compensate. Its just a small thing but it would bug me if it didnt sit right Sweet as Now the throtle can slide further onto the bars and sit right for the bar ends. Now then, I'm going to polish the switch gear on this side too, but paint the lever black to match the othercside. All this made in Japan stuff is just going to get in the way when it comes to polishing so its best to file it off More reference photos And polishing Just got to paint the lever and lever holder. | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:21 pm | |
| My mates Rob and Porky dropped round earlier to give me a hand lifting the CX off the bench on to my shed floor so I can continue with assembly Fitted the final drive, filled it to level with heavy gear oil then fitted the other shock. Then got the forks in All went together quite easy and I'm lovin those bars I think I'm going to need to chop down the loom a bit, as there seems to be miles of it up fromt. | |
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Mig
Posts : 181 Join date : 2011-07-11 Age : 53 Location : Shevington
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:40 pm | |
| Looking good IED. Wish I had made a small stand to build the bike up on. I've got to find 3 mates to help lift it down. | |
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pauliexjr
Posts : 782 Join date : 2011-02-08 Location : Livingston
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:39 pm | |
| I'm looking at picking up a CBR600 master cyinder for my CB750. Nice, small, discreet alloy 'box' rather than the big plastic jobbie mine came with. | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:37 am | |
| Ok, so I made the seat and chopped down the fender, I've covered that and now I'm going to draw a line under it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This next bit is 100% Dave-SP2 and his outstanding tallent as a bike painter. Dave arrived at my house at about 08:30 this morning with my fender tank and seat. To be totally honest I was stunned at the job he has done and for a few moments all I coul say was "You gotta be kidding me man" Anyway, this is Dave and his awesome work. The guy is a proper nice bloke and the only input I had was a colour brief. Dave went with the idea of my colours but changed the tone's of both the Orange and grey to Suzuki Swift Orange and Porche silver/grey. Dave had total freedom to interperate the colours and came up with a job 10, 50, a 100 times better than I could have imagined. If you use Dave or have a painter as good as Dave I would strongly advise you let them run with your design brief because these guys know their stuff and will blow you away with their work. If you havent guessed by now I really pleased with my paint job and 100% credit goes to dave. Here's the link to his web page, so if you are in the UK and want a killa paint job drop him a line. http://www.trackbike-repairs.co.uk/#/photo-gallery/4543345818 | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:21 am | |
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Kingley
Posts : 16 Join date : 2011-08-20 Location : Leyland, Lancs
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:59 am | |
| That's a damn fine paint job. Very late 60's early 70's retro vibe to that colour scheme and the stripes too. Can't wait to see this bike assembled. Are you going with the original wheels or are you going to use spoked wheels? | |
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IED
Posts : 199 Join date : 2011-06-04 Age : 62 Location : Harwich Essex
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:56 pm | |
| I did see a conversion to make the CX wheels spoked, but I'm going to go with the original ones mate. | |
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Dazzler
Posts : 68 Join date : 2011-07-09 Location : Shevington
| Subject: Re: Honda CX 500 first Café build Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:07 am | |
| - Mig wrote:
- . I've got to find 3 mates to help lift it down.
good luck | |
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