I can't get past my misgivings about giving K bikes the Cafe treatment.
I hear that. Most cafe builds just seem to be plain butchery to me. The lines of the bike get ruined and aren't replaced with anything meaningful or interesting - they just strip it bare, add a cafe tail and cafe bars and call it cool. The K has a tall engine so this just looks awkward. You have all this visual space with nothing in it, which is a big part of why the stock body side panels exist in the first place, to break up that space. It's possible that a K cafe build could look cool, but you'd have to be creative and add something, not just strip parts off.
One of the worst crimes is the way almost every cafe build I've seen doesn't do a damn thing about the ridges on the underside of the gas tank (the ones for mounting the body panels on) - they stick out so badly and this example is no exception. That's just plain lazy.
The thing is, the K is at the nadir of its value lifetime and great underlying engineering and criminally low prices always attract the road rats. Maybe in a decade the price on K's will start to rise again (which will make parts more expensive, of course), but in the meantime the hack jobs will continue.
