KZ650 CSR from old to new

Another update.

I've been working on the hand controls, and dash area. I finally got 95% there.

I cleaned the gauges as good as I could without opening them up, which I dont want to do, I'd rather cut off my pinky finger that mess with that silly little crimped ring.

I want to find a way to make one that people can use over and over. I have some ideas, and may experiment.

So question to you all, should I paint the brake reservoir black? or leave it silver, or powdercoat it....I realized today that Testors paint sticks to plastic like nothing else because it has a chemical that chemically bonds with it instead of just finding a rough surface to stick to.

I think the bar end mirrors work in this case, and they're not too bad, Bike Masters, so it's easy to find replacements, works ok, and isn't too heavy or complex. I only wish that the mirrors from Bike Master and their grips worked better together. The grip on the throttle side has rubber around the end, and when you have the bar end mirrors on, the throttle is way too sticky....

believe it or not those switches are 100% original, I just cleaned and painted them.









My idea for the tank and paint comes from here: no pinstripes though.



So the paint scheme on the tank will look similar to this.

popssss wrote: Another update.
So question to you all, should I paint the brake reservoir black? or leave it silver, or powdercoat it....

BLACK

here are some more pic of the painted parts...step one.

this is the silver base.









this is a sample of what we're going for, but a dark candy green, with a pattern under the green

spending time on the paint..so tell me how is it so far compared to the pics I posted earlier, but we didn't do flake.

Whole bike looks totally awesome- the only thing I would add is to get rid of the couch-seat and delete the rear fender, and it is AWESOME!

Im thinking a smaller flatter seat too like the triumph

Bike is amazing!!! great work

I agree 100 percent on the seat.

I left i this way for two reasons.

My brother, who i'm building the bike for wants to have a place for his boys to ride on the back.
My brother is a big dude, about 5'10" but 225lbs at that height, and built like a fridge, he works out SO.
I couldn't put clip ons on, cause he'd never be able to bend over that far.

So I left it thicker for comfort, now, we can remove the the fender and leave the tail piece.

I like the way the tail light fills up that space now though, you'll see when I finish the build.

I'm not done with the paint yet either, we're doing one of these kind of jobs.



then we're doing the triple stripe thats on the thruxton, on the front fender in the same green....we'd do it on the rear fender, but with the tail piece you'd never see it.

thanks guys

Cant Wait so see it.....Brother Dan!!

P.S. Im 5'11'' and 3/4 and built to kick ass!!!

I've got pictures of the fabulous paintjob my friend and c-worker did bennerairbrushing.blogspot.com/

I have the electronics to install, the carbs to synch, and the exhaust.

I hope to have my garage cleaned out in time to finish this winter. I moved and didn't get a single thing done since May.