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Offline KRONUS0100

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quick question about cb750 frame kit
« on: July 01, 2013, 05:08:06 PM »
installing a frame kit on cb750..................does the "triangle" bracing serve any real purpose or can it be left out?  thanks
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Re: quick question about cb750 frame kit
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2013, 07:32:37 PM »
I think it's there for a reason for the bracing but lots of bikes have been run for years with no bracing at all and the lower tubes cut. I'm picky so I welded some back into my bike with the kit. But then I own a tig welder and can use it too.
 My opinion is if Honda didn't think it was needed they would surely have saved the money and left it out. There were things left out to save $$$, like the lugs on the right fork but no brake there. The engineers lost to the bean counters but left the lugs there in case we figured it out.
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Re: quick question about cb750 frame kit
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2013, 06:38:50 AM »
thanks.  have seen pics with the triangle completely removed, seen pics with just the bottom brace connecting the side tubes, and have seen em with triangle bolted back together.  reckon i will leave it in then.
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current bikes:  1976 CB750F, 1981 GS1100E
bikes owned:1981 GL1100I, 1990 GS500E, 1981 GS850, 1977 and 1979 GS750, 1974 CB750, 1975 CB750, and a 1982 GS750E