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Offline calj737

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Re: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2014, 06:43:37 PM »
Are you contemplating color schemes? Hence the 2 bikes shown? Or are these design style considerations?
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Re: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2014, 09:24:20 PM »
I'll email Ian Halcott and see if he has any pics of The Thorn built by Twinline. The frame is heavily braced and detabbed.
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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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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: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2014, 10:03:53 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on April 23, 2014, 09:24:20 PM
I'll email Ian Halcott and see if he has any pics of The Thorn built by Twinline. The frame is heavily braced and detabbed.

That'd be awesome Don!

Cal, those are just detabbed and clean triangles, I need a color scheme too but not in any rush as I'll need to do a lot of cutting and welding before powdercoat. I'm not PC'ing it black, that's for sure!
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Re: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2014, 05:03:44 AM »
Make sure you do let me know the frame color before I send your package west...
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Re: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #29 on: April 24, 2014, 07:56:41 AM »
Quote from: KrautKoffin on April 23, 2014, 10:03:53 PM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on April 23, 2014, 09:24:20 PM
I'll email Ian Halcott and see if he has any pics of The Thorn built by Twinline. The frame is heavily braced and detabbed.

That'd be awesome Don!

Cal, those are just detabbed and clean triangles, I need a color scheme too but not in any rush as I'll need to do a lot of cutting and welding before powdercoat. I'm not PC'ing it black, that's for sure!

I emailed Ian LATE last night. I'm not sure if he's going to Corsa Moto Classico this weekend at Willow Springs (right next door to APE). I'll let you know if he emails me any pics.
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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

Offline Trevdawg

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Re: Modifying 550 frame
« Reply #30 on: April 24, 2014, 04:48:34 PM »
This looks interesting. I'm still searching on here, since there is so much to look at, I like that raw finish look. It is something I plan on doing since black powder coat is over done.

I will have to follow up on this.
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