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Offline Shanedalion

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Cb750 finished
« on: August 15, 2012, 04:00:22 PM »
At least for now.. Electronic ignition, etc to come this winter. This site has been a wealth of information. Thank you all!
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Offline Steve_K

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2012, 04:36:04 PM »
I like it!  The orange frame is quite appealing to me.  BTW, is a cafe ever finshed?
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2012, 04:40:11 PM »
Very nice! Love the colors.  8)

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2012, 04:41:44 PM »
Like the color scheme too!  Way to think out of the box.  Cool front fender too!

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2012, 09:10:30 PM »
Thanks guys, I almost chickened out on the orange frame after I got it back from the powder coater, glad I stuck with it and my original vision. Had to remind my self it wouldn't be SO orange once I had everything back on it.

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2012, 08:36:58 AM »
Beautiful! I really like the look of the muffler! Reminiscent of an old British twin.

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2012, 01:11:08 PM »
I like those mufflers. I have used those too.
I really like the orange paint. I am building a new bike now with plans for orange paint.
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2012, 04:29:12 PM »
That padded sissy bar really belongs in a CB750 museum somewhere.

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2012, 06:09:13 AM »
That padded sissy bar really belongs in a CB750 museum somewhere.

And to think I was going to toss it in the trash.

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2012, 03:00:37 PM »
Ha! I did!

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2012, 04:34:03 PM »
Toytuff, what happened there, had to have been a battery explosion.   Did they just hose it off and forget about it?
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2012, 05:08:09 AM »
Great looking bike !!!      Gary
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2012, 06:25:24 AM »
At least for now.. Electronic ignition, etc to come this winter. This site has been a wealth of information. Thank you all!
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Beautiful bike, I really like it...........but::::::::

Hate to break it to ya..... :-[

It ain't finished yet.............the chain is missing.

Still great looker.
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2012, 09:45:05 AM »
Yes the chain WAS missing in the photo, but not anymore. Had to shorten it. Wondered how long it would be before someone said something.
Thanks for all the nice comments guys, a lot of time and effort went into it. I think it was worth it, basically have a new bike now. Motor was bored and rebuilt, new wiring harness, etc. nothing left just "okay".

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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2012, 08:02:59 AM »
Did you do a build thread?

Did you build the seat yourself, if so, can you show how you did it?

Or at least explain the steps and what you used.

And the exhaust too, how did you make that?   It all looks kewl man, just the stlye seat and exhaust I'm looking for.

Thanks for any info................
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Re: Cb750 finished
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2012, 12:19:56 PM »
Did you do a build thread?

Did you build the seat yourself, if so, can you show how you did it?

Or at least explain the steps and what you used.

And the exhaust too, how did you make that?   It all looks kewl man, just the stlye seat and exhaust I'm looking for.

Thanks for any info................


Sorry no build thread...But I did take pics along the way. The seat I did do. Used thin hard board for the base and glued the floral foam to it and shaped it how I wanted. The nice thing was I could hide the space at the back of the gas tank that most pre-made seats dont. That space also gave me room to fill with a full inch of seat foam without it looking like it.
 
Realized right away I was going to have to remove and shorten the rear "hump" to get done what I wanted to do. So I removed it and didnt put it back until I was done with the shaping of the seat.
























The exhaust I just hacked off the rusted old stock muffler adapted some adapters and welded them on to make shortey mufflers fit. Luckily only the mufflers were rusted out, the headers were solid so I blasted them and hit them with rust remover and header paint then wrapped them with black header wrap.







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