Coenen Brothers parts puzzle

Old racing seat getting a second life

Another seat.
Straight out of the seventies, it's seen it's fair share of battles.
As the rest of the bike has.
An old honda 500 racer, this time. It features 70's gold painted OZ 5-spoke mags, old Tickle rearsets, and a battle-scarred alloy Rickman tank.
And a pair of the common used 4-1 pipes.
I'll post more pics, as soon as I made some decent ones. Probably still this year.
A dark batcave isn't the best place to make pics.

Cut and re-sewn

Seat butchering

Unfortunately, this seat turns out to be too long, behind the tank I had planned.
Enter grinder into the story; bye bye upholstery.
Ouch... Back to the sewing machine.

Air-brake

This brake-plate, 'adjusted' on a depressing Dutch winter's day, could be the deciding part on which bike it is going to be build next.
It does fit the 450.

Blog design

Yesterday BC & I updated the blog design. Inspired on the idea of the temporary design Kay made for us. We took it a step further to make it more CANDY. View http://www.infographicmedia.nl/ for Kay’s works. Thanks mate.

BC, I would go for the Bomber project.

Need something to ride.

Deciding on a new project after the streettracker...
This time quick'n dirty.
Is it going to be something like this?:

Or this?:

Big belt buckle

If you can't get enough of chrome...

More cb550 streettracker pics

CB 550 Streettracker, Ready for the urban jungle

The devil is in the details

Paint, tape, paint and more paint.

More Honda cb550 Streettracker parts

The speedo needed a new bracket, the ones that come with these meters are centered.
This aluminium bracket also saved some weight compared to the chromed steel one, probably about a staggering 8 gramms...

This pipe makes the small honda sing.

Bubble Bike

Monsieur Bubblevisor's bike last friday, after an afternoon of tinkering, fixing some small oil leaks.

Painted frame and engine

Honda cb550 streettracker

CB550 streettracker parts

Parts, like the licenceplate/taillight bracket and ignition switch bracket are not the most striking. Nevertheless, they took a fair bit of time to make from scratch.

Going dutch

1936 Fongers bicycle

Upholstery

Done