1980 CX500 Café Racer I just picked up a 80 CX500 with 10,112 mile on the clock, it is a pretty clean bike one owner, 82 year old could/would no longer ride it. Did not have the heart to tell him I was going to chop it and make it a Café Racer. That said riding it home today it had a knocking...

I had done no fork swaps before now. This chart below made selection easy for me, as I do not know too many factory MC neck bearing sizes on the fly. Some of you probably have figured all this out, but for those who haven't the tables are below. Most of the information was taken from "Ohio...

I have posted many silly priced things in the other CL thread. But sometimes there are actually sweet and well priced things that deserve a look. Like this Hodaka: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/mcy/2970092350.html

I assume that many members here are doing lots of small, but interesting things throughout the days. While those things might not warrant a 1000 page thread I thought it would be fun to have a thread that people could post the small things. Be it a job done on a bike, or car, or just something...

[Not So Low] Budget Parts-Bin Bultaco Since someone asked, "Building a bike from scratch, worth it?" elsewhere on this forum (http://www.caferacer.net/forum/general/16705-building-bike-scratch-worth.html), I thought I would start a build log on my own budget scratch build. Okay, so at this...