Written by Marlon Slack
BGM Cafe Racers? Tonie Wishart is trying to redeem himself. Years ago his father brought a bike home, an old Kawasaki G4TR 100, which Tonie successfully pulled apart and unsuccessfully put back together. Now, years later and with a hell of a lot more experience under his belt, Tonie and the team from BGM have turned out this, a cracking 1979 Kawasaki Z400 street scrambler.

It?s even more impressive when you consider the donor bike they were working with. ?I bought it off eBay for £500 back in 2014,? Tonie says, ?It was a well used commuter bike with a few miles on the clock but it had great potential.?
Point me to the nearest country lane
When he talks about potential he?s referring to the initial plan for his new bike ? a simple, low-budget shed-built project. But then things spiralled out of control when he met Den and Clive from BGM Cafe Racers.
BGM is a small workshop in the very English sounding Stratford-upon-Avon. And while the plan was to have the guys on hand to help solve any problems that might crop up during the build, over the next few months they got along so well they asked Tonie to join them at BGM.

It?d be a good team to be a part of, the shop producing customs of increasing quality and scope over the past few years. And they?ve got neat stuff in the works too, chiefly a tidy RD250 and mean CB750. But we?re getting ahead of ourselves here. Back to the Zee.

The Z400 was a happy little commuter produced by team green for ten year...