The Hodaka Club Forum

I have four Hodakas. Three are serious dirt bikes. I wanted a serious road bike. My road bike started life as a 1970 ACE 100 B. The engine, wheels and air cleaner are '94 Wombats. The seat and fairing are generic cafe racer. I'm not finished. It is still evolving.

Larry S

Lower the front end and score some clip-ons and you're there. Nice ride!

Cool project Larry! Maxie

It always amazes me how a little fairing the size of a large cooking pot can make a bike look so much more streamlined . . . and faaaaasssst looking!
Ed

Please tell us about the pipe.

Thank you

Hi Al-

The pipe originally was a Bassani high pipe. I wanted a low pipe for my project so I cut it up and remade it as a low pipe. The first three inches are the original Wombat pipe. The next three inches are exhaust tubing. The rest is the Bassani pipe I cut into wedges and re-welded to get the shape I wanted. A lot of measuring, cursing and duct tape were involved. The hardest part was re-welding. Oil impregnated steel is not easy to weld.

Larry S

very nice bike

Hi Matt -

I'm not interested in clip-ons as I want to maintain a comfortable riding position, but I did lower the front one inch. It is still a bit high. To get it looking good, I need to lower it one more inch - but now, things start to get complicated. I have a handle bar-fork tube clearance problem and I'm changing the geometry of the front end. I can fix the clearance problem, but I don't know about the geometry problem.

Larry S

Yes, for the cafe full monte overkill, you'd have to chop the frame and reset the rake then the bike would become something else. My comment was tongue-in-cheek. I had a bud with an RD cafe'd out with clip-ons and the whole schmeer. Hated them.