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Offline jeffer

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CB750K cafe racer "Project spine tingle"
« on: January 14, 2014, 05:05:38 AM »
Hi All,
Nice forum you got here!  8)
For starters I will make a proper introduction of my current project. Not my first build and not my last :)

I've just finished both a small cosmetic cb750 project and a large full overhaull a cx500 project cafe racer, see photo.
Cbr600rr front, 320mm disc conversion with custom brackets
Custom 1 mm aluminium cafe seat that houses all electronics
motogadget gauge, 100% new wireloom with custom control module. Rizoma levers, mirrors and grips.
all new paint and powder everything.

I'm currently working on a cb750K to build a cafe racer for my GF. It needs to ride and handle like a "modern" bike.
The following upgrades will be happening

Cafe seat with housed oiltank
CBR600rr gold forks and brake upgrade. Clipons
excel 18" fornt and rear rims with ss spokes
motogadget gauge + m-lock  + new loom
ugraded rear shocks (brand TBD, suggestions?
engine refurb
rear disc conversion. Rearset with hydrolic brake.

Its all stripped out, and some parts are collected like the fork.
For now i've decided on the RAD hub to use on the front. But still waiting on feedback from RAD on the part nr.

Cheers and ride safe!
Jeffry aka Jeffer


1979 CB750K - Cafe Racer - under construction
1980 CX 500 Cafe racer - finished
2005 BMW Rockster - daily driver
2011 BMW HP2 sport - sun,- & holidays

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Re: CB750K cafe racer "Project spine tingle"
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2014, 10:08:02 AM »
Which year CBR600RR fork are you using?
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)

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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: CB750K cafe racer "Project spine tingle"
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2014, 12:22:26 AM »
I'm using '06 fork.
1979 CB750K - Cafe Racer - under construction
1980 CX 500 Cafe racer - finished
2005 BMW Rockster - daily driver
2011 BMW HP2 sport - sun,- & holidays