The frame is from a 1968 Montgomery Wards Riverside Mojave.  Which is what the tank which you see on so many cafe builds today is actually from.   It was made for wards by benelli in Italy.  It is a knockoff of a Rickman racing frame from that era.   They originally built it for the benelli tornado which was a tall 650 twin engine.  The early protoypes were rejected in test marketing so they redesigned the frame and bodywork for the torndo and then used the frames and bodywork for wards bikes.  They took their 250 and 350 "egg" engines and punched them out to 260 and 360 cc and put them in the Mojave bikes.  

So the frame is perfect based on the era.  It is a large tube frame and the rickmans were very stiff.  The rickmans were chromoly but this is mild steel.  It had the height I needed for the ls650 engine.  I just had to move the swing arm pivot down and add engine mounts to be able for the engine.  Go back to the links at the beginning this thread if you want to see all the frame mod details.

I have a couple more photos for you with details of the build.  Here is a POV shot of handlebars.  I did not want the area cluttered up with switch gear so I had to find a new place for what I needed to keep.



In building this bike I stripped out a lot of the electricals.  it is pretty much down to the bare bones.  I had to keep the hi low beam switch and the starter switch.  So here is what I did.  I used the old Honda head light switch (see the black switch on the head light below) and rewired the internals of it slightly.  The switch is my head light high beam, low beam, and off.  I also had to find a place for the starter button.  The silver very low profile switch on the right side of the head light shell is the starter button.  It originally was a high beam indicator but I used the spot for the starter switch.



Lastly this is one of my favorite shots.  I love the flow of the bike from such an odd low angle.

That is one sexy looking a-a-aft view.  

sleek n sessy
love the tail light treatment

Tell me you wired them to work as blinkers, too, no stalks poking out in the airstream
On the Ninja 500 forum a lot of guys used trailer light boxes to make the tail / brake lights work that way, for a cleaner rear end (it used 2 1157 bulbs in one housing)

just checked out your website, man your other builds are also awesome.

I like that smokin blue! especially the cafe screen, that really completes the look
Bad Attitude is awesome, too, but man you can HAVE all those cylinders haha
you got skillz man

I really want to ride your GT250.  It's gorgeous!