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Thats a super nice bike... no matter what you do, make sure its ALL reversible back to stock.

Do you have a Clymer manual for it?

Here's what myself and most regulars here will recommend

• full service according to manual
• New all balls wheel bearings
• The nicest, highest performance tires you can afford
• New tapered steering stem bearings
• Progressive front springs
• New fork bushings and heavier fork oil
• Fork brace
• Braided steel brake lines
• New swingarm bearings
• hagon or progressive brand rear shocks
• dyna coils and Ignition
• in-line fuel filter
• ultrasonic cleaning and rebuild of carbs
• New carb intake boots
• New throttle and clutch cables
• Turn signals (not obvious it has them)
• Either Superbike bars, or reassess to go with the existing clubmans... I'd lose the clubmans because they can ding up the tank.

After that, see what period correct solo seat options there are, but I think it looks awesome as is

Well, for the Hagons, apparently Dave Quinn Motorcycles shut down in 2018.... he used to set them up for you based on motorcycle and rider weight.

The front springs can be found here:


They do rear shocks as well of you dont find any Hagon shocks.

For bars, any Superbike style bars will do. No need to spend a ton of money on them. They will make the bike immensely more comfortable to ride.

I'd recommend going through the motions of a service regardless of how up to date it is so as to really familiarize yourself with the bike.

I'm just really digging that paint job.

It would be super cool if you could find a hand bent exhaust for it, but it doesn't look like this model was sold domestically in Japan, so you're probably out of luck.

You could see if there is a vintage Giuliari solo seat for it though

That's a nice find, it's in great shape. You don't see to many of them
Ctac has got a pretty good shopping list together for you. You would end up with a great riding machine if you follow through with the changes.

Original cafe racers are about performance first and foremost, making a bike perform better. We see a lot of chopped up or soon to be chopped up bikes that are referred to as cafe racers. They make it "their own" and ruin the bike in the process.

It would make a nice flat track replica. Allows for performance upgrades and gives you a very comfortable riding position.

Well I got her. She runs but electric start isn’t working. Kickstarts up but carbs will need to be adjusted for altitude. Looks good for being original but I think I’m gonna take her down to the frame, gonna take a few days to think about it

Personally I'd get it running great before tearing it down to the frame. Check the air filter and adjust the valves because they have likely never even been looked at. Pretty sure that engine has screw adjusters for the valve clearance which makes valve adjustment cheap and easy plus you can achieve very accurate results if you get good with adjusting clearances. Carburetors don't work great if the valves aren't perfect, a compression test is a good place to start testing but won't always show an issue with valve clearance adjustments.
Flip those fuel filters around and flush them out, then if there is any rust and dirt in the fuel you will see it. You'll want to clean the filters above the fuel tap too if they are still intact. CV carbs are suppose to be less affected by altitude and you would need to travel to very high elevation to require significant jetting changes.
Drain the front forks into a clear glass container and based on what drains out you will see if the forks have been serviced in this lifetime