On hold...

Have now made the decision to postpone the Zündapp project.
Will it never be done now ?!?
Of course, but the spark for this is so far away now and the Zündapp...and myself deserves a better final result than what I´m able to give it now if I tried.
But the status is actually not as bad as it looks, mainly paint, wiring and assembly left, but that's quite crucial steps of the build that I don't have the energy or spark for now.

The status for the Zündapp build now in august 2017.

Now I will have some weeks of in the shop, at least for wrenchin´.
I will clean up and prepare for the BMW K75 buid that I´m so exited about now.
Planning and hoarding stuff.
I´ve already bought a Harley V-Rod headlight and the supercool rear Cuts and aluminium sheetmetal for the  for the flyscreen and various small parts.

Some parts for the K75 so far.

And when the darkness hit Sweden for real in about a month or so I hope the spark and joy will be back for me.
But for now I will focus on filling up energy and just hang out with family and friends for a while.

Regarding the Zündapp build I will probably start with that when the BMW is ready, or at least almost ready.
So if everything goes well I will have TWO awesome Caferacers to ride next summer.

Temporary deflated

Rideouts are always great with the Motobrick.
Took a nice ride with my Triumph riding friend Bengt this weekend.
He told me it looked like I was low on air in the rear tire.
A while later when we passed Lasse at Deep Valley Workshop I stopped and borrowed some well needed air to my now way to deflated rear tire.
I also checked if I could se something causing this...and I did.
Of course there was a screw that had penetrated the tire.
But Lasse who always have a solution up his sleeve brought out a Emergency Puncture Repair Tire Strip.
Pulled the screw, cleaned the hole, in with the tire strip, new air in and the day went from bad to good again in matter of seconds !

Thanks Lasse !

The little bastard causing it.

In matter of seconds Lasse had fixed the leak.

Fixed !

After this we not only got a really nice day in the seat but also amazing scenic views at Marstrand and the annual floating boatshow there.

The always beautiful Marstrand

The awakening

My new love, the BMW K75.
This bike have given me a total new view of motorcycles this summer.
I've discovered that riding actually is fun, after spending the majority of my motorcycle time last decade wrenchin' in the shop this is really something different.
Last decade my riding have been minimal, if none at all, but with this piece of awesome engineering I just keep on driving and smiling.

But now when the dark cold part of the year is approaching fast of course the old me, the shop rat, awakens.
The plan is to keep all the BMW awesomeness, the flawless engineering and replace some of the outdated design.
The front and rear will have some massage but the center part stays stock.
Think this mod gonna take this gem from awesome to AWESOME.
Stay tuned..

But now there is still some warm, dry weather left here in Sweden so I will ride on until the florescent light is more appealing then the pale autumn sun...

Exhaust mock up

After a couple of months with a never ending stream of other activities in the garage
I´m finally back to square one.
Now can the work with the Zündapp Caferacer build continue.
But during this ridiculously time i´ve got time to order and recieve a custom, handbuilt expansion chamber. In stainless on top of all.
I also bought me a new bike lift and yesterday I paired them both.
Up with the Zündapp on the lift and very temporary attached the exhaust to the bike.
Its just a mock up engine but you can still get a idea of how it will turn out.

Reduced power output

A small step for man, a giant leap for the Bombus  K75.

Passed easy both reg inspection for 35kW and annual tech inspection without any issues.

The Official Power reduction to 35kW my friend Thomas helped me with as a authorized dyno operator for this certificate .
But before we started to fiddle with the power reduction we tested the full power output.

About 59 hp on the rear wheel correlates quite good with the stated 75hp on the crank back in 1992.

Just put a 5mm spacer between the airbox and the throttle linkage to achieve the 35kW.

So now it have 35kW on the crank and will be legal to drive even for younger generations.

So I think now I have worlds only K75 with 35kW.

In Sweden there are three levels of motorcycle licence.
A1, 16 years: max 125cc and 11kW
A2, 18 years: max 35kW
A, 24 years: unlimited
(You can also get the A licence two years after passing the lower A2 level.)

Next up, much ridin´and some wrenchin.
Wrenchin´gonna result in a small flyscreen of alu over the headlight.

Kaferacer

A new era has begun for Bombus Speedshop, the BMW era.
Finally I have K75 that I've wanted for so long.

Feast your eyes on this ridiculously over dressed but immaculate thing from the nineties in "Classic Black Metallic" Color Scheme. But it´s not really black, more like very, very dark green metallic
But feast on it NOW, because very soon this new project gonna be stripped and agile like never before.
Originally a K75S  from 1992 with Pichler fairing and BMW bags, Peltor intercom, Panasonic cassette player and Secar alarm system.
It have just 32000km/19900 miles on the clock, almost not broken in if you talk BMW language.
Those machines are normally +150000km/100000 miles at this age.

First up, stripping bags, fairing and electronics.
Next up, 7" headlamp and general maintenance.

The very big second thing that made me bought this, my son wants to take his motorcycle licence.
And because his young age the power limit is 35kW so a decrease in power must be taken care of and then to be certified by the technical inspection.
35kW might sound like little but its almost 50hp in a 200 kg bike.
That's just a little less then what i have in the Sportster build and that one roars like hell.

Icing on the cake, The Monza fuel cap

When the build turned out so good other things becomes not so appealing.
The worse bit was the fuel cap.
The ugly red plastic one I've used before just because it was so ugly now turned from funny ugly to a disgrace.
So I took a deep breath and bought the expensive but so classic and beautiful 2,5" Monza fuel cap and a threaded aluminum filler neck.

The Monza cap and filler neck together and the neck is way to long. 

Up in the lathe to shorten it and enlarge the inside to fit over OEM Zündapp filler neck.

 Nice fit, just to thread on the Monza fuelcap.

 Mounted and open.

Mounted and closed