CX500 cafe racer

I don't consider this to be a real "cafe racer" just kind of styled after one. 1979 Honda CX500 deluxe. So far I have clubman handle bars, lowered about 2'' in the front by sliding the forks up in the triple tree and 2'' in the rear using harley sportster shocks. The shocks are much stiffer and I rebuild the front forks with 20w oil to make them stiffer as well. mac 2 into 1 exhaust, K&N air filter, turned the pilot screws out 3 turns, and went up two jets sizes on the primary main jets. EBC brake pads as well.
I ran a 14.3 second quarter mile with about 50 - 60 thousand miles on the bike.

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• cafe
• racer
• cx500
• cx
• 500
• honda

[buildabuick]

I have recently made a few changes to the bike. I have installed 11'' heavy duty shocks from a harley in the rear, #82 primary main jets, turned the pilot jets 2.75 turns out and added dunlop 404 tires. In the near future it will have clip ons, bar end mirrors, rebuilt front forks with 20wt fork oil and pre-load spacers.

[jaimecidcampeador]

I like your bike. I am looking for a CX500/GL500 to cafe it myself. Love those bikes, an afordable twin Ducati. Nice .....any advise on getting one???

Jaime,

[buildabuick]

I would just read about them a lot on cx 500 forums. Maybe you will find that you want a gl rathe than a cx because the gl's have the pro-link rear suspension?

[Franz49125]

That means the weels are not very pretty

[buildabuick]

I agree

[nrhbmw]

@skillet441 because its totally awesome, cool, unique, and not your typical bike... Major cool factor.

[skillet441]

I know reliability and comfort are huge factors in building a cafe racer. But what are you going to do with the whopping 50 horse power and blistering 98mph that this rocket ship is capable of?

[skillet441]

So all I have to do to build a cafe racer is pull the baffles and install some $11 clubmans? and here I am wasting my time building rearsets on the lathe, fitting clip-ons and fabricating fiberglass tail sections from scratch. And a shaft drive vertically opposed 500 that weighs 476.2 pounds must be a ROCKET out of the hole.

[ukimen]

piekna maszyna, sweet bike ;)

[MrBallocchi]

Hi, i got a similar CX, what air filters have you used? Do it needs tweaking carbs after changing air filters? thanks

[pyroboard]

Dude, keep up the good work. I love CX, and i miss mine. just seeing and hearing what you have done is awesome.

[jaimecidcampeador]

I have a CB750F 82 and it has shocks on back, and I like them. The Pro link suspension is fine, but I think 2 nice performance shocks show off more than the empty Pro Link look. Just my view. The

GL has a larger gas tank. I like both the GL and the CX The CX and the CX are cool!