My CX500 Cafe Racer

Not finished yet. new handlebars, just the headers, no airbox and several other parts taken off. soon to be a snarlin rippin cafe racer

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• CX500
• caferacer
• honda

[jeffosho]

Nice bike! I'm in the process of buying one myself and looking to turn it into a cafe racer. Where did you find those handlebars? Do they work with the stock gauges?

[fastmatt711]

@jeffosho Hey Jeff. I got the handlebars from the Old Bike Barn. They do work with the stock gauges as well!

[bubbleghead]

was it dificult to install the cafe bars? and were the bars the only absolutly necessary part that was needed to properly install them?

[fastmatt711]

@bubbleghead The bars themselves were actually really easy to swap over. I found the hardest part was the throttle sleeve. I ended up breaking a little piece off when I was taking the throttle cable off and had to order in a new one. If you get the right dia. bar (IIRC its is 3/8" but don't quote me) everything just bolts back onto the new cafe bar.

[fastmatt711]

honestly though, when I rebuild this bike again I am going to switch to clip-on style bars. These bars look nice and are a HUGE improvement over stock but at a measly 4" drop or whatever they are they're just not aggressive enough for me. There is another bar similar to this that is called the Z bend I think and it had more drop and still mounts up the same as this bar.

[boobsmaster]

honda made a turbo model of this bike, i tried to get a turbo for my xvs650 but the guys at the honda dealer just laughed at me. unavailable they said

[fastmatt711]

I had thought that would be so neat to swap the 650 Turbo engine into mine and keep it as a modernized turbo'd cafe racer with 100 HP!

[zx12ryder]

hows that thing run on top end?

[Seanitude]

Off to a good start! I'm doing the same thing to my 79 custom (using the ace clubman bars though).

[bubbleghead]

thank you very much.