Project Triumph CRK Café Racer part 4 Damn and blast!

You know what it can be like. Leave a decision to the next day and chances are you’ll wake up in the middle of the night with a start and can’t sleep until you’ve wrestled with the problem.

After a part dry build of the Café Racer Kits (CRK) 1200 project, I’d reached the point where I had to arrange for the frame and engine repainted so that it would eventually arise transformed phoenix-like from its sad touring past. I didn’t want to do too much work on the rebuild, only to have to pull it all apart again.

But I’d been putting it off for too long. Procrastination was almost my middle name. I’d thought that a black engine and frame could be highlighted by a contrasting fuel tank, side-panels and front mudguard. Then I