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Offline MotoRad626

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Project McCafe 750
« on: August 09, 2013, 08:13:23 PM »
Hello, my name is Howard McMillon and I have recently acquired a 1978 CB750 from a good friend for a wedding gift the bike is a running fixerupper  everything is stock except for the carbs. Now I've always wanted to build a cafe bike but never had the means or resources to do so until now with this CB I was givin a blank canvas to make my on creation and just so happen to have a 03 gsxr 1000 to use for some doner parts. The goal is to make a nice Resto-Mod cafe racer Ive seen alot of great ideas and pretty excited to create something the say me. Anyway since I'm new to this I might call on you experts for some advice if I run into a bind.

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Re: Project McCafe 750
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2013, 11:52:05 PM »
Howard,

Is your idea to use the GSXR front end?
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Re: Project McCafe 750
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2013, 12:34:05 AM »
Yes it is, I figured since I have the doner gsxr , which use to be my track day bike which I can no longer afford to do and selling it for a fraction of what I put into it is not an option I would like to salvage as much as I possible can. I've been doing some research and read  the thread about Industrial Cafe's front end swap which kind of got the ball rolling for me. Now I know he had to do some customer work to the stem to get the swap to work but I've also read somewhere that my gsxr front end should fit fine as is for my year and model CB, all I need to do is buy the correct race and bearing combination.

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Re: Project McCafe 750
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2013, 01:19:18 PM »
Great idea.  If you are doing your own wiring harness, you can probably use the GSXR switchgear, too. 
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: Project McCafe 750
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2013, 03:55:20 PM »
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