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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #25 on: March 01, 2017, 08:14:58 am »
I want to come over and play at your house!
A couple of 400F's and a
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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2017, 08:19:20 am »
Sounds rough, I'd be happy to help you with that problem!
A couple of 400F's and a
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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2017, 11:48:58 am »
So here is the first bit of organization.  I'll use at least one of these Costco shelving units so I bought one.  Use it to at least get some stuff off the floor.  With any luck this weekend I can sit down and plan out the floor plan and figure out all the lower cabinets/tables I want to run.  Computer area, white board, more tool storage, good metal table for heavy work and welding, air compressor, etc.







Next post should be the floorplan. 
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2017, 01:33:12 pm »
2 lower cabinets/tool chests from Costco and a 65" 4K TV to go along with it.





Hosted our bi-weekly Man's Breakfast where my group of motorcycle friends gets together Sunday morning, eats and drinks breakfast in a garage with something appropriate on to watch.  Had On Any Sunday up for this picture, but used Mark Neale shows (Faster, Fastest, The Doctor, Tornado and Kentucky Kid) for breakfast morning.  Left over Baileys is on the counter.
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2017, 03:36:29 pm »
Had On Any Sunday up for this picture, but used Mark Neale shows (Faster, Fastest, The Doctor, Tornado and Kentucky Kid) for breakfast morning. 

"At the beginning when you try the first time the 500 . . .  awww faaaak."  When Rossi was in Marquez's shoes.


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: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2017, 08:31:25 pm »
Super clean starter Kap!  I am envious!

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Nice starter!!
73' CL125, 75' CB400F, 16' KTM 1190R, 05' KTM 525EXC

75' CB400F  -  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=127295.0

My 79 CB750F for fun   ----   http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=19923.0

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2017, 09:58:58 pm »
Thanks.  Not as nice as yours! You built one of the nicest blue 400's around!  Hope mine turns out that well
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

Offline kap384@telus.net

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2017, 10:32:32 am »



New beer fridge installed!  My grandparent's original 1951 Frigidaire that has been used in my parent's basement for the last 30 years.  It will eventually house an in fridge keg system (no way I'm drilling a hole in that awesome door!), but a fresh case will go in tonight. 
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #33 on: July 30, 2017, 06:58:12 pm »

Got my uncle Ross's vintage Wharfedale speakers up on the wall pumping out tunes and got the 28' Honda banner up on the wall.  Thought when I built the place I'd have multiple walls to choose from to hang this beast, but after adding some high windows, I only had this one spot around the corners.  2 post lift should be here soon.  That'll will be the next update.



« Last Edit: July 30, 2017, 07:11:13 pm by kap384 »
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #34 on: July 31, 2017, 05:54:46 am »
Now that shop is too nice to work in! Amazing!!!
2007 KTM 990 adv
2003 Honda RC51
2000 Yamaha YSR50
1978 Honda Express
1975 Honda CB400f
1974 Honda CB350f
1974 Kawi H2
1974 Honda CB550f
1971 Kawi h1
1973 Kawi h1
1974 gt 550
1974 gt550

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2017, 07:57:33 am »
Now that shop is too nice to work in! Amazing!!!


Thanks!  Actually, was wrenching on my '02 VFR getting it ready for sale.  Replaced it with an Africa Twin for long distance and a 1997 VFR750 for the V4 engine.  Everyone has to have a V4, best engine in motorcycling!
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #36 on: September 14, 2017, 12:51:42 pm »



New update.  Lift now installed.  Draw up plans for wall storage this weekend and get that built.  Work on cleaning up the '02 VFR and the '05 CRF450X for sale.  Then back to SOHC's!
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build
« Reply #37 on: September 14, 2017, 03:14:12 pm »
Cavernous!

I wish I had a garage tall enough to fit a lift in to double up the cars.
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: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #38 on: August 27, 2018, 01:13:29 am »
Got the CRF450X sold and have the 2002 VFR listed but hasn't gone yet.  Sport touring bikes aren't as popular as they used to be.  Well, got my finish carpenter back to build me a bunch of custom cabinets to get all the stuff on the floor up on the wall.  Through the 2 stroke smoke you can see all the clutter (things without wheels or engines) that needs to be cleaned up.  All the cabinets are going on the left wall and hopefully they will be installed in the next few weeks.





Before then I need to install a variable speed exhaust fan where that dryer vent looking thing currently is above the ladder. It would be nice to upgrade my air compressor next but I likely have other purchase priorities to tend to.
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2020, 01:37:03 pm »
Man, I'd love to have a garage so big, thats about the size of my house here in the UK. I have to make do with a single garage. But it does look like Alladins cave.
34 Bikes later I decide that Honda are the best. Now I have 3 of em, VTR SP2, 2016 Blade, and the Project 400/4.

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #40 on: May 06, 2020, 01:40:08 pm »
Yeah, but you've got two awesome bikes taking up residence.  Yours looks great too!
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2020, 01:43:17 pm »
Smartened up and and moved by garage build to the Garage Journal forum.  Only 400F stuff here from now on.  It's back burnered while I finish up my CT70, sort out electrics on my '95 VFR, steering dampner and fork seals on my KTM 200XCW and then I roll my CB450K0 up on the stand to get it running to finally license it here in Canada.
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #42 on: May 06, 2020, 01:46:00 pm »
Well, I have subscribed and look forward to seeing the progress on your 400/4.
34 Bikes later I decide that Honda are the best. Now I have 3 of em, VTR SP2, 2016 Blade, and the Project 400/4.

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Re: kap384's CB400F Build - Just Garage updates for now
« Reply #43 on: June 13, 2020, 10:25:27 am »
Well, I have subscribed and look forward to seeing the progress on your 400/4.


Sounds good!
1965 Honda CB450K0
1972 Honda CT70K1
1975 Honda MR50
1975 Honda CB400F Supersport
1977 Honda CB750F2 Supersport
1978 Honda XL100
1979 Honda CBX Supersport
1982 Honda VF750S Sabre - Adventure Bike modified
1983 Honda CX650T
1995 Honda VFR750
2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin
2015 KTM 200 XC-W
1963 Suzuki T10
My 1977 CB750F restoration - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=66779.0
My 1975 CB400F restoration -
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145196.msg1651779#msg1651779
'More Stock Than Not' thread - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=90807.500
My CT70 Resurrection - http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=145221.0
Best Motorcycle Tool Ever - https://www.engduro.com