Topic: finallyfast.com is my CB550 Project

[otosjay]

Clipons .. http://goo.gl/JRekY

Getting close people ... starrting her up this weekend.

[otosjay]

Drilled my headlight brackets ... to make them look like less like a big old slab of cast aluminum.  Came out real nice.



Bike is at a friends house right now getting new schock mounts on the swing arm for the eye to eye Progressive Technologies... With some flexibility in changing the height of the rear end, I settled on a ~1.5" lift.

Once it's back home, will be working on wrapping things up and getting it out for a photo shoot.

[otosjay]

Ok so she's road worthy but man did I screw up ...

left the tank on some towels with some gas in it ... tank shifted while I was at work and rolled on its side and the little gas that was in there leaked out and on to the tank ... stripped a big slice off the side of it so now I gotta repaint it.  gonna just let it go for now and focus on the little things that need to be wrapped up ... slap some stickers over the screw up for now.

I flipped the top tree back over to it's defualt orientation ... gonna grind the handlebar tabs off, drop the front forks 3/4" (internal spacers) and lower the front headlight about that much more as well.

any way ... very happy with how she came out ... looks a little dull in this photo because of the filter that was used but she's spotless at the moment.

Next to the R/R tracks ... whatdya think CB550RR?  Lol

[Cheffish]

I think it looks damn good!

[Mcwilliams570]

Nice looking bike. The rims just set it off for me..

Matt

[sinister902]

I am incredibly jealous of your lesters. INCREDIBLY

[otosjay]

@sinister902 --- haha ... me too ... so they sleep in my bed with me at night

so more photos ... this time with a top tree from Dime City Cycles ... definitely check it out for $130.  It has some taps underneath and in front to mount whatever which keeps things clean.  I also bought the gauge brackets for another $30 that bolt directly to the taps on the bottom ... the UNIVERSAL gauge brackets they sell mount guages high so had to do some customization (machine some "down tubes" ultimately dropping the gauge about 2".  Looks soooo good.

[otosjay]

New pic (click to enlarge) ...


Have been ironing out a rich condition.  Now running 40 idles, 120 mains and stock needles set on 2nd clip from top.  Purrs like a kitten, roars like a lion that just met face to face with a gazelle.  So much fun!

I have a few things I have to do but have put it all aside to just ride for now.  If anyone knows where to find speedo cables that are about 6 inches shorter than stock, let me know.

And yeah, the tank mishap sucks (fuel sat there for a few hours and pealed the paint right off.  It'll be repainted.  But for now, it's a friendly reminder of how much effort went into rebuilding this bike.

[sander]

Nice bike! You take some fine pictures too.