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Welcome to my cafe racer (ish) build on an 04 HH Karizma zma. I'll start with some history and couple of pictures.
The bike was bought by me from a friend who was in India at the time. He had a nasty crash just before I bought it. I was riding a 89 yamaha rx100 at the time and would have given my left leg for the bigger, better zma. I actually did have to bargain my leg into the equation, which I broke in a crash with a cager who was in too much of a hurry to notice a bright blue motorcycle with its headlight flashing coming towards it.
Long story short - the bike lay for a while as I recuperated from the injuries and as soon as I was off bed rest I got the bugger repaired from a local mech. I continued to ride the zma with a crutch strapped to the rear grab rail, but soon it started to give me more problems than my woman and I got a brand spanking Yamaha r 15 in yellow. The zma seemed like a scrapper now and only my will to keep it gave it a new breath of life.
Plans to do up the zma came and went, the bike managed a ride to manali and back too. Its electrical's died on me on the way back near mandi around 2230 hrs. No headlight, no starter, over heating - not cool. It stood for another year and a half, draining its oil from the block/ clutch cover and without any electrical signs.
Moving on to 2013, couple of friends from my local riding group and some more were informed on the condition of the bike and my plans for a cafe ishtyle motorcycle. After a lot of hoo-haa's the bike was transported to an empty house in the ncr and work was finally under way. We had some stripping and grinding to do ..
I'll now let the pictures do the talking. My apologies if I wasted your time or bored you with my useless rant. I do promise you that this build would turn up as quite a looker and with the right budget quite a performer as well.
Attached are pictures from the first day of work. Basic strip down and design confirmation. The bike has moved along and is completely stripped and waiting for its engine, chassis and suspension work to commence. I'll get pictures when I get to the bike in another day or so.
Please do give me your vital feed back, opinions and suggestions. I can use all the help I can get. Finally, thank you for visiting my build thread have a good one ..
Welcome to my cafe racer (ish) build on an 04 HH Karizma zma. I'll start with some history and couple of pictures.
The bike was bought by me from a friend who was in India at the time. He had a nasty crash just before I bought it. I was riding a 89 yamaha rx100 at the time and would have given my left leg for the bigger, better zma. I actually did have to bargain my leg into the equation, which I broke in a crash with a cager who was in too much of a hurry to notice a bright blue motorcycle with its headlight flashing coming towards it.
Long story short - the bike lay for a while as I recuperated from the injuries and as soon as I was off bed rest I got the bugger repaired from a local mech. I continued to ride the zma with a crutch strapped to the rear grab rail, but soon it started to give me more problems than my woman and I got a brand spanking Yamaha r 15 in yellow. The zma seemed like a scrapper now and only my will to keep it gave it a new breath of life.
Plans to do up the zma came and went, the bike managed a ride to manali and back too. Its electrical's died on me on the way back near mandi around 2230 hrs. No headlight, no starter, over heating - not cool. It stood for another year and a half, draining its oil from the block/ clutch cover and without any electrical signs.
Moving on to 2013, couple of friends from my local riding group and some more were informed on the condition of the bike and my plans for a cafe ishtyle motorcycle. After a lot of hoo-haa's the bike was transported to an empty house in the ncr and work was finally under way. We had some stripping and grinding to do ..
I'll now let the pictures do the talking. My apologies if I wasted your time or bored you with my useless rant. I do promise you that this build would turn up as quite a looker and with the right budget quite a performer as well.
Attached are pictures from the first day of work. Basic strip down and design confirmation. The bike has moved along and is completely stripped and waiting for its engine, chassis and suspension work to commence. I'll get pictures when I get to the bike in another day or so.
Please do give me your vital feed back, opinions and suggestions. I can use all the help I can get. Finally, thank you for visiting my build thread have a good one ..
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