Cafe racer

Finished up this build at the end of the year, with this being my only ride I was pretty happy to finally get it back on the road. Think I'll spend some time riding this around now over summer, with …Beta-MAX named after the Video Cassette player of the same name.

Weekend was busy adding some final touches to Tonka, here are some pics I took of her.You can read more about it over on the.

The seat build for the Tonka build has come to an end with the leather work completed this week.The construction was fairly simple with a fibreglass base with steel locators glassed into the base.

Cases split ready for new gaskets and a new front sprocketThe Tonka Project is getting close to finishing up. I needed to replace the front sprocket and with these TW's you need to remove the left side engine case …So because of this I took the opportunity to split the cases and check out the internals and replace the gaskets at the same time.

We found this bike on ebay as a stock 1987 Yamaha SRX250. I was pretty excited to win the bike at a fairly low price even though there wasn’t much information at the time about this particular model.

Things have been progressing pretty well. With thecomplete I finished up with the rear fender mount over the last weekend.

I had the original intention of documenting this build on video but as it turns out doing this requires charged batteries and new memory cards. Two things that I didn't have at the time I started working on the bike.

I was oblivious to until today when I stumbled across this Honda CBN400. The French workshop has been creating some one off customs for quite some time now, heavily influenced by 70's and 80's culture and the American Hot Rod … What I like about these builds is the attention to detail and the equal balance between machine and design.