Sorry all for taking so long to post about my bike, but life got hold of me and I was unable to work on the bike for some time. I have since completed the bike and will give a pretty solid update here along with some pics.
The seat is a Roc City Café Racers seat (
http://www.roccitycafe.com/item.php?path=store/cbrs,) and it does snug right up to the stock tank nicely. I used 5mm neoprene as my “seat” or padding and employed the skills and steady hand of my wife to cut it out. She made a template first, then used the template to carefully cut out the neoprene so that the edges are smooth. The only thing I would have done differently (or will do next time), is to have filled in the bottom of the tank where it curves upward a bit because if you look closely where the seat and tank meet you can see a small gap. But, it has not been noticed unless I point it out.
Everything has been gone through, cleaned, lubed, and reassembled. The bike works like a well oiled machine. The digital dash is great and surprisingly the tach is pretty accurate. Some quick notes about the bike:
- LED rear taillight mounted below the rear seat and follows the body line (CBR600 light)
- Digital dash with tach, temp, mph, odo, trip, etc
- Knee dents
- Candy maroon paint by Smokey at Killer Kustomz in Dallas, TX
- Halogen headlight conversion
- R6 rearsets
- 105 jets with pod filters
- 4-1 exhaust dumped to the side (sounds sick!)
- Completely rewired
- All electronics are hidden, including the battery and the electric start still works great!
This was a fun build that resulted in a fun bike to ride! Here's a link to the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/brown.matthewp/CB550Build?feat=directlink
