I soon decided that it was time to turn my attention to the the rectangular headlight, turn signals, and bikini fairing. I have to say, that the bike in stock form is a very good looking motorcycle. Kawasaki designed a beautiful looking replica of a replica of an '80s superbike. I just didn't want a 1980's style bike and that rectangular headlight screams 1980's Japanese motorcycle. For a proper cafe racer, it had to have a round headlight and
square turn signals would certainly look out of place. One other thing I wanted to do was I wanted to stay with Kawasaki parts. So I spent time doing some online research. I found from an online Kawasaki dealer that headlight bracket for a ZX-7 should fit with only minor modification. Next I was able to locate and order a NOS headlight bucket, NOS front and rear turn signals and turn signal ste
ms for late 70s Kawasaki Z1000. Perfect! Actual parts from a 70s big Z would look great and give the ZRX an authentic look. So off came the whole headlight/turnsignal/fairing assembly and onto eBay it went. Installing the NOS headlight and turnsignal went pretty smoothly and really improved the look of the the bike immensely, however the rectangular mirrors just didn't look right. They looked very out of place with the round motif I was taking the bike in. So I did some more looking around and decided some round bar end mirrors would do the trick. Starting to get closer to that cafe look now.
I soon decided that it was time to turn my attention to the the rectangular headlight, turn signals, and bikini fairing. I have to say, that the bike in stock form is a very good looking motorcycle. Kawasaki designed a beautiful looking replica of a replica of an '80s superbike. I just didn't want a 1980's style bike and that rectangular headlight screams 1980's Japanese motorcycle. For a proper cafe racer, it had to have a round headlight and 
square turn signals would certainly look out of place. One other thing I wanted to do was I wanted to stay with Kawasaki parts. So I spent time doing some online research. I found from an online Kawasaki dealer that headlight bracket for a ZX-7 should fit with only minor modification. Next I was able to locate and order a NOS headlight bucket, NOS front and rear turn signals and turn signal ste
ms for late 70s Kawasaki Z1000. Perfect! Actual parts from a 70s big Z would look great and give the ZRX an authentic look. So off came the whole headlight/turnsignal/fairing assembly and onto eBay it went. Installing the NOS headlight and turnsignal went pretty smoothly and really improved the look of the the bike immensely, however the rectangular mirrors just didn't look right. They looked very out of place with the round motif I was taking the bike in. So I did some more looking around and decided some round bar end mirrors would do the trick. Starting to get closer to that cafe look now.
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