Planning

First thing in the planning is to get the bike's stance right. Cafe Racer and scrambler style bikes tend to have a very horizontal line. The CX's front is high and the back-end is pretty low. I lowered the front about 3,5 cm by sliding the fork up. This improves the stance quite a lot and allows me to mount the clip-on bars on top of the upper triple tree clamp. Now I need to stiffen the fork a bit. Designed for comfort the bike tends to plunge which I recon is most probably not compatible with reduced travel. Stiffer springs and a bit more (25ml) fork oil will do it.

Modifying the placement of the fuel tank helps to get the Café Racer typical horizontal line. The front of the Fuel tank will be placed bout 1,5 cm lower thus being closer to the engine while the rear end of the tank needs to be mounted about 2 cm higher. It needs to be in line with the future seat. In the following picture you can see that the back-end of the bike builds much lower than the front-end.

The Frame needs some modifications. I will start cutting the part behind the rear shocks, that parts builds too large and there is no need for it anymore. A U-Shaped frame loop will be welded on the back of the frame, and Since i plan to install rear-set foot-pegs, I need to weld some additional attachment points for the foot pegs and the mechanism to operate the gear changes.

This weekend I will order the billet clip-on bars, rear set foot pegs and the U-shaped bar

Oh, btw.. I decided to keep the original Comstar wheels and NOT go the spoke wheel conversion way. The wheels are in an excellent shape and honestly.. I kind'a like them!