Yamaha SR500 Caferacer / Street Tracker Build in Time Lapse from Start to finish.

Here is a time-lapse video showing how I build a beautiful street tracker out of a junk Yamaha SR500. Every screw, every nut, every component was completely renewed by me.
You can find the whole series in real time here.
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[@1son8043]

Most detailed time-lapse video I've seen whoever does the editing is every bit as talented as the bike builder.

[@stuarthart3370]

You've turned a slightly tired old bike into a thing of simple beauty. I love it and my only regret is selling mine in 1999. Someone implied that the 500 single was underpowered, but my memory of riding it was one of wonder at how such a wee engine produced so much torque. Great job Nils

[@Harry-xi5qv]

Mit soviel Liebe. Das bike hatte Glück.Es bekommt ein 2. Besseres Leben!!!!!

[@DIYwithUncleCy]

The best Time-lapse build I have seen. Flat out, showing the attention to detail while maintaining the time lapse is wonderful. Hats off not only on the build but the edit too!

[@NilsHomann]

Thank you !!!

[@mickypful]

Many thanks. I find there's nothing better than breathing new life into a tired machine. So satisfying when the finished bike at last appears. Personally, I enjoy the smaller 125 Japanese models with old school parts such as spoke wheels, drum brakes etc. I'm not so strong these days, so these are not too heavy to move about. I do hate trying to get old multipin joiners apart.

[@chappledesign]

Beautiful bike. Beautiful production.

[@chappledesign]

Are you running a battery inside that custom battery box? Or does it just run on the capacitor? Ooooh I wish I had the template for that box :-0!!

[@Z24BL2]

What a work!...you are crazy, men!.. I ad a XT500 in 77. Enjoyed the toy, 12,000 km trip France-Spain-Morocco (in duo !!!)never forgotten. You are some mecanoartists...

[@paulomiranda1717]

The SR500 is undoubtedly my favorite Yamaha (I had many).As the videos show is easy and fun to work on it and it returns a great pleasure of riding it.

[@khanfm_]

Such a sick & detailed build. I've got an SR400 and I can't get the life in me to get started on it lol. Very inspiring tho.

[@dragonseps8058]

Es war immer wieder schön 👍 Heute darf das jemand anders genießen 😊

[@cedricletourneur5980]

Belle restauration et magnifique bécane au final, bravo Nils!!!

[@mannymontenegro4237]

So many assholes saying you should have done this or that. This was a beautiful display of your skills and knowledge, not to mention a great editing job on the video itself. You are a true artist. Thank you for your content and keep up the good work.

[@NilsHomann]

Thank you. To be honest, I'm a little surprised too. I get really nasty messages from people who don't like the end result. They just don't like the "end result". And that's why they condemn all my work. But this is not about the result. It's about the many many steps that led to the result. I have answered some of them. I told them that their result can look different and that is then of course OK. But many are really deeply shocked that I could convert such a beautiful motorcycle so. I do not understand it either.

[@RCTUN748]

I'm soooooooooooooooo love this process!

[@dyske-]

Awesome bike! Beautiful editing! Thank you!

[@NilsHomann]

Thank you so much!

[@ralfrainfurth6034]

Dass war cool, richtig interessant, vielen Dank für dieses Video. Klasse. Wissen ist Macht, nichts Wissen macht doch was👍

[@shahenpooladian4249]

Great build, great editing, great background music.

[@MRmzadz]

Awesome, I enjoyed watching this wonderful transformation, thanks

[@stephanedubarry8624]

Impressive work. Warm congratulations Stéphane

[@NilsHomann]

Thanx!

[@xtremluck6260]

What a fantastic all around job you did on this project. Great mechanical skills. You're editing of the video top notch. I appreciate the amount of information in the description you've given us to find and purchase the items used. If I may inject one request. Could you please spend a few minutes going through the entire completed bike for us. Not seeing the completed bike in detail at the end of the video felt like a poor ending to a very good movie. Stay well.

[@Darkmatter321]

Doing such an amazing video is almost as hard as the build itself. Bravo, well done on both accounts.

[@marcobucci882]

Grazie! Grazie! Grazie!🧡 Molto bello👍🏽

[@squareandrea]

Grande lavoro. Complimenti!

[@NilsHomann]

Grazie mille.È stato un lavoro molto impegnativo. Ma è stato anche molto divertente. I migliori saluti da Berlino.

[@MotoTvWoodsFarm]

great contents - nice editing - beautiful video 👨‍🔧🛠📸📺💚

[@NilsHomann]

Thanks !!!

[@jameshanoomansing1442]

Again, just brilliant. Big respect from Mauritius

[@jimmyjoe1871]

I think I know what I want to do when I retire…..

[@NilsHomann]

I think that's a good idea. You need very little space. You don't need so many tools. You can take your time. Sit together with friends for hours. Even sometimes, to do nothing meaningful. It's great. Lots of fun.

[@chikotachikota3245]

Schönes Dingen. Der Film auch...

[@gkue6004]

Perfection!

[@reymundlenkeit5508]

Die 500 war das bester Bike ever :))

[@oneofmany1087]

Very nice, Job well done

[@cliffingram270]

Proper job.

[@sylvioweber8427]

danke für das Video!👌👍

[@NilsHomann]

Sehr gerne!

[@Mo_G]

Good job

[@clairtonnunes1301]

nice job! congrats guy

[@NilsHomann]

Thanx!

[@erik_1402]

A white frame is the second best idea

[@rockdelquesito]

genial

[@LORENZOCCH]

nice bike nice music

[@qdiddyz]

This is cool

[@banjopete]

Obviously the description Cafe Racer is being used liberally.

[@ericweber1969]

Great video, and a really nice bike! Greetings from the USA!

[@NilsHomann]

Thank you very much. This was actually a very nice project as well and a lot of fun to build.

[@reginaldbeck]

Bravo

[@nickseccombe29]

Beautiful bike! And job well done. Always good to see videos to inspire more creativity. I would like to use the covers you used on the top of the forks. Can you send/share where you found them?

[@AriaAR]

Wow!

[@romandybala]

That was the easy part. Now the T Ü V

[@noobsaibot21121]

Classic

[@aalderni]

Proxxon tools are ❤

[@razalisalleh1971]

hello from Malaysia.

[@NilsHomann]

Hello!

[@JohnStenborg]

…very good and circular rebuild…i missed the best and the single item that made the sr500 stand out in motorcycle history…that connected the past and future though…the super large oversized front lamp…bought an sr500 in the 90-thies…it was shitty…100ml oil per 100 km…glued (!) sprocket mainshaft…sprayed it black and rode it for a summer…sold it gladly…bought a moto guzzi 1975…it was shitty…repaired and rode it for 30 years…sold it sadly…bought a vespa gts300…smashed one and the new one destroyed after 4000km service…i should have stayed with guzzi…

[@raydeacon]

Great video, just out of interest would this pass a TUV and be road legal in Germany?

[@kryptotrader4699]

Geile Arbeit Jungs! Ist dieses Schmuckstück erwerblich? Wie viele Stunden hat es gedauert? 🙂

[@michaelluder3913]

hey, geht doch! da "quält" man sich wochenlang von folge zu folge, um dann zu sehen, das es auch in 36 min geht.😉 aber mal im ernst: sehr schön und sehr unterhaltend!👍 apropos sr 500: was ist denn aus der versteigerung gaworden oder hab ich was verpasst?

[@chopperhehehe]

Very nice 👍👍👍😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦕🦄😁🤞✌️

[@johnalieftis4587]

Tyres brand and size pls very clean job beautiful lines

[@karlgustav5490]

I travelled the whole europe with this bike , making long trips like 3500, 4500km., and made almost 90 000km with it. you just took this superb real vintage bike to turn it into a mainstream useless living-room toy....^^

[@NilsHomann]

That is a matter of taste, I would say. Sure you can see it as negative as you do. But, you could also say "I got an unkempt run-down broken motorcycle and with a lot of work and a lot of love I made a custom motorcycle out of it" ... But as I said ... it's a matter of taste.

[@timkruger291]

Moin Nils Vorweg klasse Video👍🏻 Meine XT hat auch eine M-Unit + Elektronik Zündung + LiFePO Batterie. Hast du dir Gedanken gemacht das der Hauptscheinwerfer nur an sein kann wenn der Motor läuft? Quasi eine Motor-läuft erkennen mit Freigabe für den Hauptverbraucher. Und wenn sie mal absäuft dann den Scheinwerfer abschaltet? Gruß Tim

[@user-tx2vq5kg4u]

Супер

[@Rockon-zq7gr]

Handwerklich bestimmt gut. Besser wäre es gewesen du hättest sie getankt, einen Ölwechsel gemacht und wärst dein Motorrad dann gefahren.

[@mchristr]

As you probably already know--or perhaps you don't--a Tracker and a Cafe Racer are two entirely different concepts.

[@NilsHomann]

Of course I know that. I specifically didn't build a cafe racer. Because everyone calls their conversion that.

[@JoeWolsing]

Bei den Einzelvideos geht es doch immer wieder um Neuteile. Kannst, darfst, oder willst Du da keine einschlägigen Adressen nennen? Für Nachschrauber, wäre das ja schon enorm praktisch ...

[@periklisisaakidis5857]

Nils hallo. I have a question. I have a yamaha SR500. It has a mikuni VM34, 34mm carb. It is not the original but after so many years one of the previous owners changed the original one with this. While I was using it with the original airfilter and airbox it was running rich, leading to wet sparkplug. I took out the filter box and installed an airfilter pod, but still I have the problems below. 1) I can't have idle in less than 3000rpm 2) idle is not smooth and stable 3) in low and middle revs I have carburettor back fire 4) in high revs the bike goes much better ( that's not a problem actually) What should I do to adjust correctly my carburettor? Pleas help. Thank you in advance.

[@hodaka1000]

I have a 1978 500 got it about nine years ago with about 63,000 kilometres on it and I've done another 80,000 in the time I've owned it Are you sure it's a carburettor problem ? You find information in a manual and on line about tests for the magneto, you only need a multimeter to do the tests Have you checked the timing with a timing light ? There is a small round piece on the outside of the flywheel and a part on the inside of the case that corresponds with it, check they are both clean and they have the specified clearance Soon after getting my bike I fitted a simpler VM36 Mikuni that came properly jetted for an SR500 I fitted it along with a new manifold and I found a rubber tube (on the side of the road) that I think must have fallen of a car that I shortened and works perfectly to connect the VM36 to the original SR air cleaner box I made an outer cable from one of the two originals but used both of the metal angled tubes from the throttle ends of the two cables and fitted one at each end of the cable I made up, I cut the flared end off the tube at the carburettor end and it then fits neatly into the brass cable fitting in the top of the Mikuni, the extra angled tube gives it the slightly extra length it needed and allowed it to clear the tight fit near the frame above the carburettor nicely, it's a tight fit and to remove the top of the carburettor you have to loosen the clamp on the manifold and lean the carburettor over to the left for clearance if you say had to remove the cable for some reason The SR inner cables were too short to use so I made one from a bicycle brake inner cable It works well powers on doesn't backfire and idles nicely and I must have done at least 75,000 kilometres without any problems I know they aren't really cheap but maybe you should bite the bullet and simply buy a pre-jetted VM36 Mikuni I got mine off US e bay Or there is a lot of information available about tuning Mikuni carburettors on line Maybe contact Mikuni of some place that sells them specifically for SRs and see if you could either buy a set of the correct jets and parts or at least find the part numbers of the correct jets and things to compare to the parts fitted to your carburettor But as I said if you can verified the problem isn't electrical and you want to save the pain and do some pleasurable riding get a new pre-jetted VM36 Another idea is if you happen to know someone with a similar SR and they're kind enough to allow you to borrow their known good carburettor, or say their CDI unit, and try it on your bike it would tell if the your carburettor is really the problem Wish you were here I've got my bike pulled apart at the moment and my VM36 is removed and sitting about eight feet away

[@rolandtrautmann8]

👍😊👍

[@mikeHD74]

Hallo Nils, wie hast Du das bei der Emberwind mit der Scheinwerferbefestigung gelöst? Ich kann es in den Videos leider nicht finden...Danke schon mal 😊

[@matthiasweigel311]

That's a great build and time lapse!!! My only complaint - one German to another - drop the weird electronica beach dance mix. No music wuold have been far better!

[@wuttmodel3232]

I am liked sr500/r80gs

[@PS-nl5wc]

Servus Nils, ist dieser Auspuff den du da hast vom Kickstarter Shop? Kannst du mir mal die genauen Maße von dem schicken? Wär super, im Netz findet man nix Vielen dank ✌🏼

[@NilsHomann]

Den habe ich von Kedo ...

[@PS-nl5wc]

@@NilsHomann die haben leider auch keine Maße angegeben.. Trotzdem danke 😊👍🏻

[@T.J986]

I want to buy this bike what is the procedure?

[@williagustin3973]

mantap kaka

[@NilsHomann]

Dan lari!

[@nvnbintangg]

is that a vespa steering lock?

[@NilsHomann]

Yes, it looks a bit like that. but from the time a lot of steering locks look like that.

[@stefanh72]

Sehr gutes Video!...aber früher war die Musik mehr Rock.

[@rolandtrautmann8]

👍mein nächstes Projekt?

[@krawallbruder8661]

Ich frage mich immer, wie das mit dem Tüv ist bei dem Heck ist

[@NilsHomann]

Das hat gut geklappt mit meinem Heckumbau / alles eingetragen.

[@manuelserrano2632]

🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@donaldduck5700]

Im Originalen schön als Custom Bike ugley..

[@NilsHomann]

OK Aua .. aber jeder darf seine Meinung haben ...

[@donaldduck5700]

@@NilsHomann nun die Yamaha SR 500 kann als optisch gelungenes Retro Style zur englischen Triumph gesehen werden und wird hier nur verunstaltet, schade für das Motorrad

[@db2474]

Why the hell would you use bearings that have been ground down to fit? Especially ones that have been botched up with what looks like an angle grinder!

[@NilsHomann]

I didn't install the bearings I ground after all. I always use old bearings to drive in the new ones. And so that the old bearings do not get stuck over the new ones, that's why I machined the edges. The bearings are new, of course.

[@bigred8438]

That engine was possibly the most under powered 500 single ever made, it was pitiful at the time. It really struggled to battle head winds, so pissy was it. Then what do they do? they make a 400 cc version which was even more piss weak. Granted, perhaps the Royal Enfield 500 may less powerful.

[@NilsHomann]

After all, this is very subjective, because the power is judged by each driver himself whether sufficient or not. And I agree with you about the 400cc version. Such a nonsense.

[@hodaka1000]

You removed all the good original parts 🥺

[@NilsHomann]

"Yes, but that's how it goes with a renovation. Don't worry - the parts will live on in other motorcycles and were mostly not salvageable."

[@partidorbuakaw4860]

I dont like your restoration at all. Not good! Ive seen many flaws

[@NilsHomann]

Thank you. But it's not a restoration. It's a rebuild. You can tell by the fact that I didn't leave anything as it was before. But thanks anyway.

[@arpitsrivastava3]

Bro bro, what are those exhausts you installed called? What brand or what style??