Honda CB900C- NIGHTMARE CAFE RACER?-Backyard Cafe Racer Build

#caferacer #vintagehonda #hondacaferacer #hondacb
In this video we build a cafe racer from Honda's classic 1982 CB900 Custom, a bike that featured a rare 10 speed transmission. This bike was extremely challenging due to the proportions of it and the fact that we bought someone else's unfinished café racer project. Which meant a complete teardown, re wiring some things, as well as rebuilding carburetors, changing out the starter, and the clutch (not in video). Some things were not documented in the video.
Backyard Cafe Racer build, I'm no professional nor do I claim to be, hopefully this inspires someone to go build something, as you don't have to be a pro to get building.
Thank you for watching!
Music:
Egzod, Maestro Chives, Neoni - Royalty [NCS Release]
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Steve Hartz - Never Get Old [NCS Release]
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[@ngamshim]

Nice one 😊👍

[@tomasenrique7284]

Much appreciated!

[@ngamshim]

@@tomasenrique7284 welcome brother 👍

[@stevenlocke5445]

Cb900 custom had a problem with cams

[@derektron5000]

Ditch the Keihin carbs and get some vm36s.

[@tomasenrique7284]

I ended up letting go of this bike a while ago 💔but if i had kept it i would definitely have, appreciate you watching 🙌🙌

[@richardknott2021]

Hate it when people butcher motorcycles..

[@60bazzle]

I have an untouched 82 CB900C in my garage. I ride it weekly. I can't support any shade tree mechanic who think that his/her innovations and modifications to this bike are going to be an improvement over what the original Honda engineers came up with.

[@joelarson1733]

@@60bazzle That's what every grumpy old man says. Modifying motorcycles is simple fun. And a lot of them are out rusting in a field for decades at a time. At least those are the ones I chop up.

[@elijahflores4153]

Did you lock that door?

[@tomasenrique7284]

Totally forgot thanks bro

[@DJxD]

See the problem with this motorcycle is, nobody nowadays likes it for what it is. A cruiser. It looks like 1980s boiled down into a bike that some Honda designer created while drunk on sake with a room full of Goldwing and CB750 parts.
The fact that every single time I google CB900C its followed by "cafe" or "project", kills me lmao
Why in gods name would any sane person, take a motorcycle that already is 40 years old, 600 freakin pounds, take off 30 - 60lbs of that in plastics and fairings and call it a CAFE RACERRRRR.
It is not a fast motorcycle, it is not a light motorcycle, you are dressing it up to be something it can never be. Cafes are fast, light, they have angles and they have basic fundamentals that when broken stand out like a red flag. "I have no idea what I am doing.." is what that flag reads every time I see "cafe racer cb900c" in a youtube title, or a forum post.
It's the calling card of a dude who bought a motorcycle off either:
A.) Biker grandpa 'who definitely didn't ham-fist that inline 4 carb, what are you talkin about'
B.) Some guy who also bought it stupidly, thinking he was going to chop it up, cafe it out or bobber it, and found out it's the heaviest, slowest, loudest, most unpractically made Honda CB ever made. And I bet that B guy probably googled "how to change a motorcycle shaft drive to chain" about 1000 times after buying something he knew he didn't want, but got anyway cause "it's got two wheels and handlebars"
All jokes aside. This bike is actually a conversation piece, 10 speed transmission, parts bin special.. I have two.
I hate to see them cafe'd out. Because 90% of people who do it, don't do it right. Because it is actually very expensive and not at all worth it to completely build a new motorcycle from the ground up. Which is what you would need to do, for that 'cafe racer sized hole in the driveway for all my money to fall into' mission.