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Offline 2themax

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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #25 on: July 17, 2013, 03:42:08 PM »
I rolled the ol girl off her stand today!!

Even rode it around the block and down to the gas station. Should have seen the smile on my face. I still need to put the badges on the gas tank, and fix the pesky headlight that I can't seem to get working right.

Here she is out in the day light.
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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2013, 10:29:54 PM »
Looking good!
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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2013, 05:16:21 AM »
Badass!
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Offline iron_worker

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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2013, 07:35:57 AM »
Well hello there!

Looks great man. Super clean.

IW
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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2013, 08:07:39 AM »
Nice
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Offline 2themax

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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2013, 06:51:23 PM »
Thanks a lot guys!

I just love the sound these bikes put out. I've been a v-twin fan ever since I owned my RC51 and now a Hawk GT but these SOHC sound so badass!

Me and the GF went for a ride tonight and had a lot of people come up and compliment the bike.

I'm real pleased with how it came out and although its not "mint" its good enough to put a few miles on this summer.
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Re: My '77 CB550F Rebuild
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2013, 09:08:42 PM »
Gotta love the sound of an RC51!!
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"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)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold
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