My own Honda CB cafe racer project
May 14, 2008
I finally had a little time to work on my CB550 this weekend. As you can see, I stripped off the front fairing, the crash bar, the back rest, the rear pegs, and other misc. parts that I deemed useless. I also added a set of clubman handle bars, and a nice H4 tri-bar headlight (see the main page for more info about these items). The clubman bars were a little bit of a struggle to make fit. I ended up having to disconnect and relocate the brake line (which entitles bleeding the brake), and also tearing apart the twist throttle so that I could relocate the cables to prevent the throttle from sticking open. To be honest, it was a real pain in the rear doing all of this relocation, but it sure looks flossy. You be the judge.
June 27, 2008 at 12:31 pm
“…and also tearing apart the twist throttle so that I could relocate the cables to prevent the throttle from sticking open”
Nice blog! How did you solve this? – Do you have more pictures? My bike is a 550F -76 and I’m going to try to install a new clubman handlebar this weekend. Keep up the good work!