Lessons learned when stripping the bike - taking videos with my phone proved sooo much more useful when putting the bike back together than photos.  I tracked were cables ran, what was fixed to what etc and it, without doubt, saved me hours.


Once the bike was stripped I listed the jobs that needed doing (before I started planning what to chop off).


Frame and wheels to be blasted and powder-coated
All paint work to be resprayed
New chain and sprockets
New speedo
New lights
New brake hoses
Calipers to be refurbised
New Suspension
Replace the airbox with pod filters
Engine check (valves etc)
Carb re-jet
Engine respray
New headers and exhaust



And all on a limited budget so I had to do as much of the jobs as I could.


As I started,
I hadnt stripped a bike to its compenent parts
I hadn't pulled carbs apart
I hadn't done a paint job.
I hadn't welded anything
I hadn't fitted a digital taco
I hand't made fiberglass parts from scratch


I had done basic electrics, brakes, chains etc.


Thank god for the internet! - This forum was a life saver for most of my 'how does this work' moments/

Soooo, for those that are intersted, I'll do my best to walk through how I turned a stanadard fazer into a cafe racer, before and after below:

Hi All,


I've spent many hours tawling through the various FZS600 threads to plug gaps in knowledge for my lockdown project which is now complete: a full rebuild and modificaiton of a FZS600 into a cafe racer.  Hoping the pictures of the end result show and sounding out to see if there is any appetite for a build thread to show how I went about the project and lessons learned on the way...


Cheers.