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Offline slowburn

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CB 500K1 rebuild
« on: July 17, 2012, 06:33:53 AM »
Hi, I'm new to this forum.  Thought I would share some pics of a recent rebuild I did on a CB 500K1.  I bought the bike because, other than the owner putting a custom seat, pipes and bars, the machine was untouched.  it sat in the guys basement for 30 years.  I was going to clean it up, get it running and do a quick "flip".  As you can see, I went to far!!!!  Not quite finished yet, but close.
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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2012, 06:38:23 AM »
That bike looks nice!  Keep it..
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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2012, 01:16:59 PM »
Second on Greggo.  Finish it and keep it!
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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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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2012, 01:51:14 PM »
Thanks!  I was only thinking of selling it before I did the complete rebuild (ground up).  Knowing me however it will likley sit in my basement another 40yrs!!!!  I like building them more than riding....
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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2012, 02:06:21 PM »
Quote from: slowburn on July 17, 2012, 01:51:14 PM
Thanks!  I was only thinking of selling it before I did the complete rebuild (ground up).  Knowing me however it will likley sit in my basement another 40yrs!!!!  I like building them more than riding....

I take it back then...Sell it ;) 
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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2012, 07:02:25 AM »
Me too. If there's no hope in the next 5 or so years sell it.
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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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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2012, 08:03:45 AM »
Here are a few more pics that hopefully will inspire some of you!
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Re: CB 500K1 rebuild
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 08:07:54 AM »
oops wrong pics....
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