CB650 cafe racer

[FowlerE30]

REVIVAL! Unbelivable the difference that removing the long seat and tail light made for your bike, pretty cool change up. Any new pics to throw?

[bimmerspotter]

i put the carbs on and the bike started right up and runs better than ever! no pictures as it was dark and i was under a tarp because it is raining and i was on my driveway because there is an e30 being torn apart and enough parts to build 2 more e30s in the garage

[bimmerspotter]

Yeah, it looks like the new carbs might need a quick cleaning. It's really not hard at all. Pop the float bowl covers off, find the pilot jets, flat blade screwdriver usually takes them out, spray or soak in carb cleaner, poke with small wire to verify no obstruction, reinstall, done. Most of the carbs I've seen working on bikes, have just a little bit of crud in the pilot jets, and most need a good carb sync afterwords. I haven't met a bike yet that I couldn't make pur like a kitten with a good cleaning and sync. Have you done the electronic ignition conversion?

yeah, i took the floats out, surprisingly everything was really clean and i just quickly went through everything. I'm going to polish the top cap things and throw the on the bike. i can't figure out how to get the throttle cables off the old cars. i think i may be retarded. i haven't tried super hard though it looks really tedious though

[JRodigan]

Good stuff man. I've been wanting an old CB Cafe Racer just so I can avoid using my car for short trips around town. This is motivating me.

[R32SilviaTech]

Yeah, it looks like the new carbs might need a quick cleaning. It's really not hard at all. Pop the float bowl covers off, find the pilot jets, flat blade screwdriver usually takes them out, spray or soak in carb cleaner, poke with small wire to verify no obstruction, reinstall, done. Most of the carbs I've seen working on bikes, have just a little bit of crud in the pilot jets, and most need a good carb sync afterwords. I haven't met a bike yet that I couldn't make pur like a kitten with a good cleaning and sync. Have you done the electronic ignition conversion?

[jazig.k]

I can't ride much more than a thumpster but I really want to build a bike when I see stuff like this...

[Miroteknik]

needs to rebuild carbs,

buys used carbs that still most likely need to be rebuilt

(bike is looking good good job)

[bimmerspotter]

look what came in the mail:

[bimmerspotter]

ordered some new carbs and they should be here sometime this week! hopefully that all this thing needs...

[bimmerspotter]

I love cleaning carbs, as long as they weren't in underwater storage previously. My brother gave me a rack from his 75CB550. I thought I would never get those carbs working again. After many hours cleaning and soaking parts, as well as a carb rebuild kit, and new floats it worked out. Other than needing a sync they fired right up. If you need any advice let me know. Work looks great so far!

as far as rebuilding carbs it makes me want to die. i rebuilt the carb on one of my vw bugs and it was just annoying and tedious, and that was only 1 haha. i think my friends dad might do it because i think i may just end up wanting to just kill someone if i do it myself.

hopefully i will have this fired up and going in a week or 2

[R32SilviaTech]

I love cleaning carbs, as long as they weren't in underwater storage previously. My brother gave me a rack from his 75CB550. I thought I would never get those carbs working again. After many hours cleaning and soaking parts, as well as a carb rebuild kit, and new floats it worked out. Other than needing a sync they fired right up. If you need any advice let me know. Work looks great so far!

[bimmerspotter]

i need to rebuild my carburetors...

[bimmerspotter]

So i found out the exhaust gaskets Motorcycle Center got me are the wrong ones but i made them work. and then when i tried to start it my battery was completely dead and i don't know if i am an idiot or the battery charger is broken but i couldn't get the stupid thing to charge. and then later i looked into my gas tank just for kicks to find out that my brother had emptied it for gas for his e30. little chode.

later i will try to jump my bike with my car and get gas

[projecthoarder]

Love the look so far, keep up the good work man.
(I have to two bikes in my house and enough parts to build a third for everyone talking about building them in the house, lol.)

[bimmerspotter]

hello i know there are a vast amount of people that care about this build so i took some more photos of it. basically the same ones as before but i took them with my actual camera instead of my iPhone:

heres one of me being a total poser to see how the back sits while there is actual weight on it:
1983 cb650 cafe racer


and some basic shots of the bike:
1983 cb650 cafe racer

1983 cb650 cafe racer

1983 cb650 cafe racer