Roc City Cafe Racers

We're running xs1100 forks on the front of the bike for additional stiffness, but before reassembling the forks and putting them back on...

I pulled some long hours in the shop the last few days to get the wheels for the Manx bike built, we're going to use H profile 18x2.15 r...

Toby finished the engine and brought it to the shop tonight, looking great, it's definitely the nicest engine I've seen.  He went t...

 Toby is finishing up stripping the extra junk from the frame, quite a few hours went into just getting all the tabs, mounts and hangers off...

We got the tires off the old rims, and bought a Borrani 18" rim for the front wheel, along with stainless spokes to lace both 18" ...

Despite getting the business end of a screwdriver in his eye last week, Toby is back at the 650 engine, which is certainly a well engineered...

This will be the story of the transformation of a cruddy old '83 XS 650 into a custom Norton Manx style roadracer.  My friend Toby Zeigl...