Honda CX500 Cafe Racer Build 44 - Synchronising the carburettors

To get the bike ready for the MOT we need to synchronise the carburettors on the Honda CX500 Cafe Racer build.
The readings come in lower than what I was expecting but checking the compression and all seemed ok!
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[@japsniper1980]

Great to see another video this morning on the CX. We all fully understand how the rest of life can get in the way of the fun stuff. No worries. Keep at it, and keep us up to date as best you can.

[@bawihapachuau22]

I came to KZbin everyday this past week, checking for your videos.. 😄

[@forthebold]

Hopefully you've enjoyed today's video

[@bawihapachuau22]

Really did... Looking forward for the CX on the road

[@forthebold]

Me too. ;)

[@bawihapachuau22]

👍👍👍

[@bobdobbs7378]

Keep up the good work enjoying the vids can’t wait to see it up and running on the road .

[@VictoriousTortoise]

Looks incredible! Just finished wiring my cm450 cafe racer

[@forthebold]

Excellent.

[@alexcronin4082]

I love this channel, I love the work you do, my one gripe has always been the music selection. Today though, the music was so perfect at 3:25. Great work on this video

[@tomypreach]

The amount for Stuff ive learned from watching your channel is crazy really.. thank you very much for teaching my dumbass..

[@forthebold]

Thanks for watching :)

[@masonw2134]

Loved the carb sync music! Great vid

[@thomaswiggersmller8983]

hey, i have just done a complete build on my cx 500.. i have the same speedo/tack. If you connect the watertemp wires from the bike to the fuel level wire on the speedo, you get a perfectly working watertemp dial. it starts blinking until it gets warmer, and will go about halfway up when warm.. hottest mine have been after 1 hour on the highway. 120kph ish. is 75% way up to full tank (watertemp) ;) works perfectly

[@forthebold]

Good idea, after riding it last week though I think I'm going to be changing it as I don't like it too much, but good tip.

[@benhawke7231]

Man that sounds nice. Did you figure out the misfiring in cylinder 2? Well here in October I'll finally have a place to start working on my '81 GS650GL Suzuki. I put it away in 2012 after riding it home from work and it was only running on 2 cylinders and I could only do 50mph. It's been wrecked, tank dented, seat dry rotted and it's going to need a lot of love. I've had this since 2001. I hope y'all will watch my vids when I get started.

[@carltonolson6813]

Love that sound 😊 almost there👍

[@MrYodastream]

How often do you work on the bike? Im a newbie about to buy my first bike and would like to know how much time i have to invest on it to make it a café racer. Btw im buiyng a bike that is running so i dont have to mess with the engine too much. Great Video!

[@glennframpton8756]

Love the videos, bikes look amazing

[@forthebold]

Thank you

[@stuartgreig6609]

Sounds great, looking forward to seeing it all together and running on the road. Really looking forward to seeing your tacho wiring video. I have the same tacho on my GSX750ES and getting the revs to work was more complex than I thought. Are you driving the speedo from the front or rear wheel? I did the rear as making a mount was easier at the back. Doing the DGR myself in Oslo, really looking forward to it. Keep up the good work, Stuart

[@forthebold]

Thanks, for the mount for the front I've just attached it to the existing mounts on the mudguard.

[@davem7385]

Any chance of a video on how to get the petrol gauge to stop flashing? I've the same clock as your cx. Keep up the good work

[@forthebold]

Be doing that this weekend

[@DriversSide]

I’m going to need to do this for my CB650 soon! What do you think I should do my next video over?

[@diegougaz7727]

Can you make a video on how to shorten the throttle/clutch cables when going from the stock handle bars to clip ons? I couldn’t find a way to route the cables and not have them bind due to the lower location of the hand controls

[@forthebold]

To be honest I haven't done that yet, I've shortened the choke cable though with a solderless nipple

[@diegougaz7727]

Aha! solderless nipples might be what I'm looking for... I was going to try and use the soldering method but that sounds way easier so I'll give those a shot, thanks!

[@majesticmoto]

geez that bike sounds great

[@forthebold]

Sure is loud, found out after that the padding in the baffle has blown out!

[@forthebold]

Definitely a job for me. I saw bits come out then when I took it out it had app gone

[@fit21guy]

I think a DARYL REPLICA bike from The Walking Dead would be a great next project. Not seen anyone do one in the uk and think it would fetch a lot if you were to sell it.

[@forthebold]

Have you seen the builders of that bike on here? Check out classified moto

[@drummer781]

you need to sync the tool before u can sync your carbs!! there may be inconsistencies between the gauges as the gauges are man-made. If you get a hand held pressure tool tester u might find that if you pump both gauges to 20 psi , one gauge might show 21psi...

[@drummer781]

while the other might show 18 psi. Once you find how much each gauge is naturally off by, u can either add or subtract the amount while syncing the carbs. in a nutshell, just because the needles are pointing to the same numbers on both gauges, the gauges might be off too, in turn making the syncing process useless until u identify and essentially zero-out your gauges.

[@alexcoker5816]

Hi great video but I don't think you actually showed how to sink the carbs. I've just done mine and you have to adjust that screw and adjust the idle speed at the cable end. Something about the right hand cylinder is only affected by the balance screw, that's what it says in the manual 👍

[@forthebold]

Yeah you can adjust the idle with the cable, but synchronising is just making sure that the intake of both Carburettors are the same as each other. You can only adjust the right hand carb as the left hand is the base carb. E.g. If you're working on 4 carbs 3 of the carbs need to sync to the 1 base carb

[@mattmckay6895]

Weh need inspiration, how can I improve my bike if you don’t update yours?

[@forthebold]

Updated, family comes first.

[@sevenity2677]

Sounds nice! Rev it up! Termigomi exhaust?

[@forthebold]

Not on this one, they're on the Ducati, this is just an Emgo shorty.

[@Cytrus12321]

Regards! Cool video!

[@hoppo1000]

What speedometer is that and did you do a fitting video

[@forthebold]

No idea of the manufacturer but it's off ebay, fitting video is next week ;)

[@3zeekiel]

My plastic plug just snapped like that as well. 40 year old plastic lol

[@ItsAlwaySomethin]

What carb sync tool is that?

[@forthebold]

To be honest no idea. Was £40 off eBay. Much better ones out there but for more money

[@TinShackVideos]

Sounds like a riding lawn mower with the mufflers cut off.

[@forthebold]

Beautiful.

[@jerrettbethune1856]

You need to just bite the bullet and go with a set of murrays carbs. They'll come ready to slap on. 8 months of building with my cx and bought his carbs instead of fooling with factory carbs. Engine fired right up and is a beast with his.

[@forthebold]

All good. No need as this is all set up good for this exhaust now. These work brilliantly now. No doubt murrays carbs are good but these are perfect now

[@OldManTony]

A bit easier than the GS hahahah!

[@forthebold]

Yeah. Just a bit. Was thinking about synchronising the GS this week if I have time. A lot of time.

[@willvan940]

Nive

[@forthebold]

Thumbs up

[@dz33127]

first

[@forthebold]

Congrats