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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #175 on: June 07, 2012, 08:17:17 pm »

I am going to put this dam thing together if it kills me

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« Reply #176 on: August 03, 2012, 06:56:04 pm »
That's a pretty sweet pile of parts there!

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« Reply #177 on: August 04, 2012, 06:38:29 am »
That it is, now if it was a complete bike and. It a pile it would be sooooo much cooler

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« Reply #178 on: August 04, 2012, 07:35:43 pm »
Still slowly collecting parts.

Story of my build for the past 3 years...  everything is looking good!!
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« Reply #179 on: August 04, 2012, 07:41:02 pm »
SSSSSHHHHHhh im not even going to start talking about what year I bought this bike.....

Ive been clearing alot of things off my plate to try and really focus on this bike, not to toot my own horn but it really will be a cool bike when done, and im sick of it not being done

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« Reply #180 on: August 04, 2012, 09:21:22 pm »
Man...  you are speaking my thoughts exactly!!  at least I have someone to share my mentality with!i have 10+ boxes full of goodies!!  My bike is going to rock too!!  :-) :-)
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« Reply #181 on: October 10, 2012, 04:53:59 pm »
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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #182 on: October 10, 2012, 06:39:37 pm »
Now that a few things have been cleared off my plate I can get back to working on the bike
Still have my CBX to finish and sell my MG......

I am an engineering student again, so most of my time is taken up with school.

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« Reply #183 on: November 01, 2012, 11:58:07 am »
Now that a few things have been cleared off my plate I can get back to working on the bike
Still have my CBX to finish and sell my MG......

I am an engineering student again, so most of my time is taken up with school.


Show us a pic of the MG!

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« Reply #184 on: November 03, 2012, 02:46:02 pm »

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #185 on: June 05, 2013, 07:13:35 pm »
(Diggin up an oldie, but...) Was it ever completed?
1977 CB750F


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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #186 on: June 05, 2013, 07:26:22 pm »
Nope, still plugging away.
Bottom end of the motor is next on the list after the chopper is on the road.
I might even bump it in front of the cbx

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« Reply #187 on: April 21, 2014, 09:37:41 am »
I hate when I dig this thread up and see how long I have been working on the bike.
Well I am set to finish my Mechanical Engineering degree.  Have a constantration on aerospace and a focus on propulsions.  So it isnt like I have been sitting on my butt.

Other bikes have come and gone, but I have always kept this one.  Learned so much about these and the cool performance parts that are out there for them.

Still have some silly internal parts around to build up a motor, but have changed gears for right now.
Goal is to just get the thing on the road...

So the original stock motor got a coat of paint and some dress up parts.
Unsure on running the RC set up, an ARD, a dyna or just stock yet.




Will get this motor into the frame soon and start getting it wired and plumed to run

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #188 on: April 21, 2014, 09:58:22 am »
I hate when I dig this thread up and see how long I have been working on the bike.
Well I am set to finish my Mechanical Engineering degree.  Have a constantration on aerospace and a focus on propulsions.  So it isnt like I have been sitting on my butt.

Other bikes have come and gone, but I have always kept this one.  Learned so much about these and the cool performance parts that are out there for them.

Still have some silly internal parts around to build up a motor, but have changed gears for right now.
Goal is to just get the thing on the road...

So the original stock motor got a coat of paint and some dress up parts.
Unsure on running the RC set up, an ARD, a dyna or just stock yet.




Will get this motor into the frame soon and start getting it wired and plumed to run

Jag,

Is this the stock displacement motor, or the 900 pistons, etc.? 
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: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #189 on: April 21, 2014, 10:06:42 am »
100% stock engine

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #190 on: April 21, 2014, 10:26:19 am »
100% stock engine

Shove that bad boy in the frame and make it GO!
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: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #191 on: April 21, 2014, 10:33:57 am »
Thats the idea

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #192 on: April 21, 2014, 11:40:58 am »
I absolutely love wrinkle finish!!  I am going to try on my head and then polish off the fined edges..ala..Mg..Triumph aftermarket valve cover. I am using Wf on my head light bucket (done), side covers, and speedo case (done).

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #193 on: April 21, 2014, 12:20:33 pm »
Yeah the wrinkle covers well and seems to hold up well.


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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #194 on: April 21, 2014, 12:33:45 pm »
Jag,

Have you checked the clearance under your CR gas tank?  I had finned tappet covers on my K7 motor, but they would not clear my 76 F gas tank.  I ended up having to swap from finned to non-finned tappets or there would be contact.  With the F frame you have and your CR gas tank, this might not be an issue.  Just a heads up.
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: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #195 on: April 21, 2014, 01:07:14 pm »
Nope, have not had the motor with the tappets on it.
Wil have to check that

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Re: my CB750F build into a CR750 cafe
« Reply #196 on: December 29, 2014, 05:51:25 am »

Well over the holiday weekend some work was done.  Not enough to celebrate, but at least the project isn't totally dead.

Took the wheels and some other junk off to get the motor in.


That frame kit made thinks a million times easier too.


Getting everything put back on.


I need to mess with the frame kit just a little so it goes together better, but it is okay for now.


Just clears the tower studs. Motor isn't fully installed so I am not worried.


Back on wheels.


Almost looks like a motorcycle



A lot better then this pile.....