project fazer

[red98]

bought this beauty back in the spring this year to use as spares for my own stuttering fazer,thats sorted now and i have this left,have all the parts to go back on to make a complete bike which is still mot`ed....so i`am thinking PROJECT FAZER.........ideas please foccers 

[darrsi]

Side car.......

[red98]

that would be better than a towbar 

[His Dudeness]

Wheelie bike/stunter maybe?

[Mark YPVS]

Spoke wheels , 4 into 2 exhaust, big round headlight, ace bars, single seat, JPS paint, crome clocks etc ,modenish cafe racer.
Mark

[red98]

thats what iam thinking mark.......love the 4 into 2 idea...parhaps using megaphone silencers.ive got two sets of steel down pipes that i could rework into l + r.....not sure what it will sound like though

[Mark YPVS]

Hi Red,
Was thinking xt660 wheels( gold) poss early xjr pipes ( megaphones sounds like a plan), shouldn't be too hard to make a good looking café racer, exhausts may be the hardest (costly) part
Have a look for local auto jumbles coming up, I think Kempton park is on in the new year?
Mark

[CRH]

thats what iam thinking mark.......love the 4 into 2 idea...parhaps using megaphone silencers.ive got two sets of steel down pipes that i could rework into l + r.....not sure what it will sound like though

......you need couple of norton peashooter silencers paul? ....will sound awesome!!....ile try and find you a linky?....pattern ones only £50 each approx ...

[Fuzzy]

Something like this?

FZS 600 Cafe Racer on Vimeo

[CRH]

Something like this?

....they not bad ...but the peashooters are...proper"..straight thru"...them on that one are the dunstall type" with conical baffles!!....

[darrsi]

Hi Red,
Was thinking xt660 wheels( gold) poss early xjr pipes ( megaphones sounds like a plan), shouldn't be too hard to make a good looking café racer, exhausts may be the hardest (costly) part
Have a look for local auto jumbles coming up, I think Kempton park is on in the new year?
Mark

http://www.kempton.co.uk/Event-calendar-details?EventID=EVENT-14042013131052

[CRH]

Hi Red,
Was thinking xt660 wheels( gold) poss early xjr pipes ( megaphones sounds like a plan), shouldn't be too hard to make a good looking café racer, exhausts may be the hardest (costly) part
Have a look for local auto jumbles coming up, I think Kempton park is on in the new year?
Mark

http://www.kempton.co.uk/Event-calendar-details?EventID=EVENT-14042013131052

...f,fks sake darrsi?...you cannot put a saddle on a cafe" racer ...stop horsing about!!

[ChristoT]

I still think towbar, and trailer full of booze up to Wales is a good idea!! 

[darrsi]

Hi Red,
Was thinking xt660 wheels( gold) poss early xjr pipes ( megaphones sounds like a plan), shouldn't be too hard to make a good looking café racer, exhausts may be the hardest (costly) part
Have a look for local auto jumbles coming up, I think Kempton park is on in the new year?
Mark

http://www.kempton.co.uk/Event-calendar-details?EventID=EVENT-14042013131052

...f,fks sake darrsi?...you cannot put a saddle on a cafe" racer ...stop horsing about!!

I didn't know these events even existed until mentioned earlier!
I am more familiar with losing money on horses worthy of a jumble sale though. 
Kempton's apparently only 17 miles away from me but i'm on call for work that weekend so can't really go, i'll try and catch one another time, maybe in warmer times as well.

[CRH]

Hi Red,
Was thinking xt660 wheels( gold) poss early xjr pipes ( megaphones sounds like a plan), shouldn't be too hard to make a good looking café racer, exhausts may be the hardest (costly) part
Have a look for local auto jumbles coming up, I think Kempton park is on in the new year?
Mark

http://www.kempton.co.uk/Event-calendar-details?EventID=EVENT-14042013131052

...f,fks sake darrsi?...you cannot put a saddle on a cafe" racer ...stop horsing about!!

I didn't know these events even existed until mentioned earlier!
I am more familiar with losing money on horses worthy of a jumble sale though. 
Kempton's apparently only 17 miles away from me but i'm on call for work that weekend so can't really go, i'll try and catch one another time, maybe in warmer times as well.

...you want to try and get to a few?...love the auto jumbles me!!

[His Dudeness]

I don't think they work as cafe racers they're too big and the ass end comes up too high

[darrsi]

I don't think they work as cafe racers they're too big and the ass end comes up too high

A cafe racer with an arse too high.............i think i used to date her? 

[red98]

thanks for the piccie FUZZY.....iam not the first then  ......was thinking of a single seat and chopping the seat frame down to make it look shorter,looking at the picture,i dont think the tank looks right and would be a pain to swap for another,parhaps i could change the shape with the colour scheme ...

[Fazerider]

How about restoring it to original spec?
Cafe racers and streetfighters are all very well, but everyone who smashes their bike up a bit does it and ends up with something too personalised (and usually still looks like a bike that has been crashed) and so has little resale value. The FZS600 is an endangered species!

[red98]

i know what you mean FAZERIDER...its been streetfightered already so iam using that as an excuse.+ the cost of a fairing and headlight is going to be expensive.....biggest pain will be the clocks,they look good when the fairings fitted but without its just not right,their fitted to the crossbar of the renthals at the moment  ....like the idea of separate clocks but think thats going to be a pain,one for the speedo drive and two,for the fault code thingy  .......need more thinking time 

[His Dudeness]

I don't think they work as cafe racers they're too big and the ass end comes up too high

A cafe racer with an arse too high.............i think i used to date her? 

pics?

[Hedgetrimmer]

Carbon hydro-dip the whole damn thing - go on, someone's gotta be first!    Or snakeskin pattern hydro-dip! Beat Punkstig at his own game! 

[Fuzzy]

This is what I'd do and I don't think it'd cost much. Almost did it when I smashed a fairing a while back.

Keep oem clocks, spray the white back panel black. Get a high quality round single headlight, 7" min or a bit bigger looks good, lots of oem ones on ebay and mount it so it's quite low. Mount clocks in a similar position to standard -  could use the standard fairing/speedo bracket but remove/chop off the unneeded bits? Then get a nice looking screen, will cover up the back of the clocks and make it look a lot neater (guess you wouldn't need to spray the clocks if the screen is dark/opaque). Good quality & nice looking mirrors, again oem is usually the best, and the Fazer's lever clamps on the bars have mirrors holes already.

I think the key is to keep it fairly simple but make sure it looks clean and the parts are of good quality.

[Fuzzy]

I reckon this guy's done a good job

http://tablica.pl/oferta/yamaha-fazer-fzs-600-mozliwa-zamiana-CID5-ID312dz.html

[Punkstig]

Café racer is last year, flat tracker is the new cool, I was hoping to get hold of a 400 to flat track, but they don't come up often!