Topic: Northern ireland cb550 cafe build bike finished

[davidtime]

Wanna trade? I would need some cash from you as well though.  haha

[stuartni]

lol i said the day i bought this i would never sell and still see it that way the only place this will go is to my son (if i have one)

[davidtime]

Good answer. Did you come up with those paint lines or did you see an example of them before?

[cheftuskey121]

man...that looks sick! great work. bet it rides like a champ smiles for miles

[stuartni]

Good answer. Did you come up with those paint lines or did you see an example of them before?

i picked the colours and the lay out the painter just made it flow and fit together like the way it curves round the knee indents etc

[stuartni]

man...that looks sick! great work. bet it rides like a champ smiles for miles

thanks very much and done my first run out done 45 miles and she broke down turns out the battery is not charging so will look into that tomorrow its was working perfect before the bike was stripped so i no it wont to hard to fix

[davidtime]

Good answer. Did you come up with those paint lines or did you see an example of them before?

i picked the colours and the lay out the painter just made it flow and fit together like the way it curves round the knee indents etc

Painters here want so much money just to do a bike. Just for a basic one color paint job you are looking at a few hundred.

[edhaeuser]

Wow! You did a great job.  Beautiful and classy.  I've been keeping up with your progress, but just never had a lot of constructive comments....you obviously didn't need them anyway!....Sweet bike!

[vfourfreak]

Memo to : Honda management team, Japan.

This is how we like out motorbikes. Please make more just like this, not bikes with rubbish watercooled motors encased in expensive plastic.

Soichiro would approve.

Sincerely yours etc etc

[davidtime]

Memo to : Honda management team, Japan.

This is how we like out motorbikes. Please make more just like this, not bikes with rubbish watercooled motors encased in expensive plastic.

Soichiro would approve.

Sincerely yours etc etc

+1

[stuartni]

Wow! You did a great job.  Beautiful and classy.  I've been keeping up with your progress, but just never had a lot of constructive comments....you obviously didn't need them anyway!....Sweet bike!

thanks very much any comments is great glad people like what ive done with the bike

[stuartni]

Memo to : Honda management team, Japan.

This is how we like out motorbikes. Please make more just like this, not bikes with rubbish watercooled motors encased in expensive plastic.

Soichiro would approve.

Sincerely yours etc etc

lmao very good one of my fav comments so far really looking forward to my next build, this was my first bike and first ever build so really happy with the end result

[Icarus]

So clean and great proportions!

[stuartni]

So clean and great proportions!

thanks

[stuartni]

some good new found the problem behind my bike not charging my brand new rectifier/ regulator that was working has stopped but off course i bought it over a year ago now so cant send it back so had to order a new one  also big thanks to lesterpiglet for letting test my rectifier/ regulator on his bike to see if it was faulty

[LesterPiglet]

Stu called today. What a noisy boy he is. 
Stuart's Ride Off

[stuartni]

thanks les

[Norniron400f]

I seen this bike when i visited stuart about a week ago.i can tell u all its worthy of all your comments.beautiful bike and top bloke

[scunny]

ahhhhhhhhhh nice. lovely wee back fire as well. thats a motorcycle.

[Tews19]

LOL, I think it is running lean due to the exhaust set up...

[Ewan 500K1]

Hi Stuart... just wondering how your back end is behaving with those longer rear shocks. Some folk saying to me (I've just got my new longer rear shocks) that if I dont modify the frame to lift the front end that I'll have a twitchy rear end. Ones I have are longer  by 46mm.

[acejcl]

Beautiful bike stuartni! How are you able to run dual front brakes and still have your speedo/odo?

[Ewan 500K1]

Beautiful bike stuartni! How are you able to run dual front brakes and still have your speedo/odo?

adapted (or early version) speedo drive plate sits inside the disc (see pics) ... Or if flattened off and riveted to the hub... fairly well known mod and plenty posts about it on the forum ... just search for dual discs

[ISLAND CAFERACERS]

great bike

could you let me know your rim sizes front back & tyre sizes

cheers Andy

[LesterPiglet]

I'm not sure about his front tyre but the rear is 130/80x18, he saw what was on mine and followed suit. My front is 100/90x19.
After 5 miles I've discovered my tyre choice was flawed. Over 4k on them now and nothing has changed.
The bike will follow any raised/sunken line in the road...not ideal. When these wear out I'll be going back to standard sizes.