In this short series of pics you can see the addition of the  oval swingarm and the templates for the head mounts for the engine.

If you would like us to build you are bespoke CBX Cafe Racer or another type of cafe racer of your dreams then please drop John an email at   john@taimoshancycleworks.com

Following is a series of shots of the heavy weight 6 cylinder CBX1000 engine having been shoe horned into the lightweight seamless tube Taimoshan CBX1000 Cafe Racer frame

If you are liking what you see in this build and you want your own,  we are happy to design a new build around the same frame, if so then please email john at john@taimoshancycleworks.com

After a slow start to the build the frame is coming together nicely. Below is a series of pics of the frame & swingarm being setup in the frame jig ready for welding.

In the next post you will see how to  shoe horn a big 6 cylinder CBX1000 motor in a small frame, this is going to be one stunning cafe racer.

If you are interested in own a brutal but stunning CBX1000 Cafe Racer like we are building for this customer please drop us an email at   john@taimoshancycleworks.com

Step 7: wrap carbon reinforcement of the whole section

In this post you can see part of the process of competing the Delta pivot mounts and further wrapping of the swingarm.

You will also see that I needed to provide clearance at the centre point of the swingarm as the swingarm would have fouled on the main frame at the expremities of the pivot range.  The clearance was provided by cutting out a section of the reinforced tube and then bonding in anouther piece of carbon tube that I had made earlier for this purpose.

Next post will include details of the machining of  swingarm pivot bearing housings and the rear spindle carriers that will be bonded into the ends of the main spas

Ducati 750SS Cafe Racer – Design

This is a new build that will likely start in the middle of the year for a customer in Switzerland. This customer is lucky enough to have an example of the 1989 Ducati 750ss as seen below

What the client is looking to achieve is a cool minimalist cafer racer from the classic styled 1980′s Ducati.  The first thing we did was have a long chat about how the bike should look and some detials of the types of componentst to be used, then I set about pencil sketching some designs of what the bike might looks like.

So here is a later version of my early pencil sketches

The next step is to have the bike rendered so you can better see the dtails and the colour scheme. In this case there were 2 sketches done, … Read More »