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Offline moosh

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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...new paint
« Reply #75 on: August 16, 2014, 07:56:00 PM »
happy to report it's running very good
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #76 on: August 30, 2014, 12:12:44 PM »
painted my tank and seat. thought it was to purple before, now its very red. added new honda wing badges, let me know what you guys think, im undecided on the color.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #77 on: August 30, 2014, 12:14:24 PM »
new badges
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #78 on: August 30, 2014, 12:15:30 PM »
having touble uploading pics
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #79 on: August 30, 2014, 01:45:00 PM »
Definitely RED now! 

One of the color schemes I always liked was Guy Martin's Honda a few years ago.  Your Honda red is similar in tone.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #80 on: August 30, 2014, 06:38:33 PM »
guy martin always has cool looking bikes did you see what he raced at pikes peek?
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #81 on: August 30, 2014, 07:15:36 PM »
also im thinking of adding a tach back on my bike, but i was thinking a mini one set up mounted on the motor itself. more for tuning than for checking while riding.  has anyone else done or seen this? below is a oil pressure gauge, but kinda like to do same idea but tach
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #82 on: August 30, 2014, 07:24:30 PM »
I've seen them mounted to the fork tubes, knee height.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #83 on: August 31, 2014, 01:00:10 AM »
Quote from: moosh on August 30, 2014, 06:38:33 PM
guy martin always has cool looking bikes did you see what he raced at pikes peek?

That Pikes Peak bike was full tilt.  What a motor.  Spondon swingarm, too.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #84 on: November 13, 2014, 11:26:17 AM »
Got new rear shocks. Pretty happy.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #85 on: December 06, 2014, 05:50:38 PM »
What kind of shocks?  [My 550 needs some]  Now your kickstand looks old!
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #86 on: December 07, 2014, 04:45:12 PM »
they're hagon shocks. they got good reviews from what i saw, and ive been happy with them since i got them. ha the shiny bits do make the old bits looks even older. but im slowly updating more and more. maybe someday ill shine up that kickstand
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #87 on: December 07, 2014, 05:00:23 PM »
I've also read good reviews on the Hagons and have considered buying them too.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #88 on: April 29, 2015, 05:32:54 PM »
Put a new headlight on my bike. i think it's from a late 60's bridgestone.. not sure but if anyone knows id be happy to know. i got it at a swap meet for $5 a couple months ago. i fitted a 2.5" tach from dime city into it so i have a tach now. painted it and hooked it all up today and it all seems to work good. 
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ...trying
« Reply #89 on: May 02, 2015, 01:40:18 PM »
Nice work moosh. I really like the line from the top of the tank to the seat cowl. Flows nicely.
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Re: cafe build '75 cb550f ..done... ish.
« Reply #90 on: June 12, 2015, 05:15:31 PM »
pretty proud and think ive settled on the color ha. also did the lines on the tail myself with a pinstripe brush, not perfect but not bad. ive still got plan for it.. i want frankenbike's clear points cover, drilled front rotor, and im sure something else will come up to do to it.
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