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Offline sameasiteverwas

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Hello from Flanders, NY
« on: April 29, 2015, 09:20:14 PM »
Hi All,

Greetings from Flanders, home of the Big Duck.  I'm the proud new owner of a CB750 K4, which I recently traded up to from a 2009 Royal Enfield Bullet 500.  My bike's technology advanced 25 years overnight, but the rubber bits all aged 35. Go figure. The Enfield was a great bike, but tended to make your teeth rattle a little above 65 mph...if you could get it going that fast...

I started thinking about buying a CB750 back in the fall.  I've been lurking on the forum for a while, and all the great info on here helped convince me I could take on the restoration/maintenance required for an older bike.  I actually bought the CB750 a couple of weeks ago, rode it home, and since then have been playing "find the deathtrap" in the garage.  New tires, new spokes, replaced missing turn signals, new front brake seal.  Rebuilt the petcock, which I only noticed was dripping gas on the engine after riding it back 80 miles  :o Otherwise, it's running and shifting well, and is in pretty good shape cosmetically.[size=78%] [/size]

Anyway, thanks in advance for your answers to all the questions I will probably be asking in the coming weeks and months!
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Offline 70CB750

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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2015, 04:13:18 AM »
Welcome!

You can post pictures after 5 posts and we all love pictures. ;)
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2015, 05:11:54 AM »
Welcome from Texas. Sounds like you are off to a good start
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2015, 08:48:25 AM »
Welcome from Westchester County NY.
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2015, 12:00:53 PM »
Thanks for the warm welcomes!  I'll post some pictures soon...
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2015, 01:19:14 PM »
You must be a Talking Heads fan.
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2015, 01:40:28 PM »
Thanks for the warm welcomes!  I'll post some pictures soon...

Yup, pictures are good - and a pet name for the CB !

Welcome.

Kev

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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2015, 03:56:32 PM »
You must be a Talking Heads fan.

How did you guess?
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2015, 04:37:24 PM »
You must be a Talking Heads fan.

How did you guess?
Rich folk from the twin forks  :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Re: Hello from Flanders, NY
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2015, 11:02:26 PM »
Back in the day I would blurt out "Same as it ever was" at random times.  Yes, i'm that old.
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