Kaw-ster cafe racer from Roman Juris of Slovakia
ZR7 used as the base for the build
Everything was disassembled, the rear sub frame was redesigned and rebuilt and now mounts a new cafe racer style tail section, the standard front forks were replaced with inverted forks from a Monster, the single sided swingarm, likewise, is Monster sourced and replaces the standard Kawasaki unit. The seat, so often an afterthought on cafe racers, where the builder glues on a thin slab of foam, is instead a gorgeous work of brown upholstery that fits the tail section perfectly.
Not the usual cafe racer slab of foam
The paint scheme, strongly resembles the Ala-Verda, a beautiful British Racing Green and gold pinstripe combination that complements the build.
Kaw-ster cafe racer ready for body work
The Kaw-ster is definitely very well executed and the result of Roman's work is a classic cafe racer with the right stance and obvious good looks. Nice work, Roman!
Link: Motoride SK
Kaw-ster cafe racer from Roman Juris of Slovakia
{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }
The seat alone is worth the price of admission. Beautiful workmanship! As for the rest of the bike — top-notch work all around; terrific use of parts from other bikes to build a great one-off. But if Roman ever decides to get into the motorcycle-upholstery business, he’ll give the others a run for their money.
Hooray for usable seats! That’s how you know a custom bike is built for riding.
Although the upholstery quality here may be a little TOO good to subject it to hours under a sweaty rider.
Love the seat!
The tank is rather nice also!
Mike
noooooooo!!!!
i love it all but the tank!!!!
)
they put so much work on it…
imo, they should have selected a different tank, not keeping the original one!!!
That is great! I can’t wait to see the next special to show up here.
Mark L.
beauty! I rather like the model he started with too, much under-appreciated.
-todd
This build is so superior in every way than the usual USA cafe racer exhaust wrapped rat bike, that it’s almost in another category. Hits all the marks: concept, workmanship, paint/graphics/styling, perfectly integrated trick parts. This machine should serve as an example and inspiration to builders on how well it can be done. Bravo!
Jason B, I have nothing to add, you said it all ! Bravo !
Very nice; looks much better than the bike it started as. I really like the details like the Triumph style Kawasaki label. Anyone else think the tail angle looks a little high? Maybe it would look better with a rider on board.
nice work.