Topic: 18" wheel options for 1978 CB750 K8

[Geeto67]

Where I come from, calling someone you have never met a dickburger, and saying they obviously have no knowledge or experience (that is how those are spelled, by the way) is considered bad manners. In fact, in real life, it would normally get you more than just an internet chastising. But don't worry, there are self-righteous pricks like you on every forum - people that have to tell others what to do to show off their "knowledge", and then try to desperately justify it when they get called on it. I'm not letting it bother me at all. Some other members of the forum were very forthright and helpful in answering the question and providing useful information, and for that I am grateful.

it's also considered bad manners to take a dump on people trying to help you, whether they actually do or not. Let's call it even...you can think I'm rude and I can think you are a dickburger. Seems fair all around.

[lucky]

You can get tires better than those 40 year old designed K70's.
Just use the Avon Road Rider 26 tires on the 17 inch wheels.

You can also buy a "better" bike than a 40-year-old CB750. Using that logic we should all be driving Volvos.

I am always amazed when people ignore the question, and instead tell you how what you should or shouldn't do with your bike, based on their own preferences.

The CB750 motorcycle is extremely popular 40 years later BECAUSE it was built so well and was so far ahead of its time. And they sold so many of them for so many years.

I was not ignoring your question.
If you want Dunlop K70's and will not settle for anything else, then you will have to buy whatever it requires to make that happen.
BTW the CB750A came with 17 inch Alloy wheels. Good ones.

[Black 750K8]

You seem to assume he didn't know better without having any reason to think that. That pissed him off, and I think his reaction is perfectly understandable, and his reply was firm, but not rude.

Well I have to assume something, this isn't like real life where you can size up someone and get a feel for how savy they are about stuff. I assume if that there is one question then there are 10 more questions behind it that the person hasn't asked yet and I try to anticipate those questions as well. I may take some liberties in assuming things based on the thought process illustrated in the question, but everybody does that. I personally tend to hold people who put form before function in lower regard because that is the world I come from - it works good first it looks good second. If that comes out in my answers, so be it - I am not going to change who I am because someone gets a little but hurt and complains about too much information, that's like complaining you have too much pu$$y.

I am a big fan of informed decision making, so to that end too much information is always better than not enough. If you put something out there on the internet you don't really get to have control over who replies and what they say. These aren't active conversations, you don't get to steer them where you want to go.

I just thought it was rude for buster to chastise anybody who was trying to be helpful to him even if he didn't feel the information was necessary to him specifically. It is selfish to think that a question exists on a public forum just for the purpose of the original poster - really it is here for anyone who has a similar question, any lurkers who want to read, and people who search the archive and find this days/months/years later looking for the same info. To that end, it is a benefit for the community as a whole to have as much info in one place surronding the subject. Sure it may not be helpful to buster but maybe it is helpful 6 mos later to "camaroguy12" (a made up name not meant to single anybody out) who finds the post while google searching the site. So to sum up....shut up, be grateful this place exists in the first place, that there are people who want to be helpful, and try to accept you are not the center of the universe.   

and now that we have filled this thread with useless pontification about who is rude and who isn't...I am going find something better to do.

Hey it is a tire and a wheel move on.

[Rick]

Resurrecting this dinosaur of a thread.  In anticipation of a LSR 78 750K build, I'm considering lacing 18" rims to my existing hubs.  Has anybody had any experience with the Excel rims?  Seems on their website they only sell dirtbike rims and they need special spokes and nipples.  What I'm looking for is a good quality aluminum rim to lace to my hubs.  I can't seem to find any clean 750A wheels anywhere for a decent price.  Besides, I'm looking to run some skinny and tall tires for the salt flats.  Any other makers of aluminum rims that could be laced to my hubs and economical spoke kits come to mind?