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Offline PeWe

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #75 on: November 06, 2015, 02:58:34 AM »
56.  I like SOHC Hondas [and Kawasakis!] walks on the beach and women with big racks

What about 2-stroke?
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Personally, I should not stop at 2.
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CB750 K6-76  970cc (Earlier 1005cc JMR Billet block on the shelf waiting for a comeback)
CB750 K2-75 Parts assembled to a stock K2

Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #76 on: November 06, 2015, 03:01:07 AM »
...I remember when dirt was a new thing...
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #77 on: November 06, 2015, 03:37:45 AM »
The best reply so far.  ;D

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #78 on: November 06, 2015, 04:50:46 AM »
i rolled off the assembly line in 1974. my hondas in 1976 and 1979.

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #79 on: November 06, 2015, 07:36:41 AM »
Will be 65 if I make December. Had just recently turned 19 when in 1970 I road to Daytona and back, from Houston, Texas on a 1969 Honda CB750 Sandcast! It was absolutely the bomb watching Dick Mann win the Daytona 200 on a Honda CR750. Was already 5 years in love with Honda owning a 1964 CA200, a 1965 CA95, a 1966 CB77, a 1967 CB450, and a 1969 CB450K2.


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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #80 on: November 06, 2015, 09:08:58 AM »
32, bought a '77 CB750K semi-café racer from CL about two months ago. Wife not too happy as we just had a baby in May but I've been wanting a bike for a long time and love the CBs. Still not running yet but hopefully within the next couple months as a winter project.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #81 on: November 06, 2015, 09:14:13 AM »
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Turned 64 yesterday. Same 1972 CB 750 K2 I picked up on August 8th 1972. Dan

That's totally awesome. I bought my K7 in 1977--when I was 17. This relationship outlasts my marriages. A real steal too:

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #82 on: November 06, 2015, 10:19:26 AM »
31. Been riding all types of little bikes since I was 6 or 7. Stopped after my moped adventures around the age of 15. Then, at 23 bought my Buell, and sold it after finding my 77 550.

Wow! That was a smart move. :)
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #83 on: November 06, 2015, 10:56:55 AM »
63, Got my first Honda in 1968
actualy i have a 750F1 de 76
-a 750F1 relooked en K2 de 76
- a 500K2 de 76
- 400 Ss four de 76
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #84 on: November 06, 2015, 01:19:16 PM »
I'm 28 and have had a few CB's over the years. 96 CB750 Nighthawk, 76 CB360T and a 73 CB750K turned tracker/scrambler. I also have a vstar 650 classic for when the girl wants to ride (she hates my 73  ::) )

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #85 on: November 06, 2015, 01:27:35 PM »
55, first bike 1978 at 18 was a CB400.
Hondas and Kawasaki since then.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #86 on: November 06, 2015, 03:11:30 PM »
Older than dirt.  ;)
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #87 on: November 06, 2015, 04:17:23 PM »
I'm 59, started riding at 18 and never stopped, never even got a car license.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #88 on: November 07, 2015, 02:52:47 AM »
Just did a quick count(might of missed one or 2) on the age groups that have posted here so far:
20's 15
30's 12
40's 9
50's 18
60's 11
70's 3
I figured us 50 guys would be leading the pack here, but it surprises me that their are that many 20 age group sohc4 riders. Heck I've got underwear and socks that old ;D But I'm happy to see the young guys riding these old Honda's and realizing what great bike's they were and still are ;)
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #89 on: November 07, 2015, 04:01:44 AM »
Just did a quick count(might of missed one or 2) on the age groups that have posted here so far:
20's 15
30's 12
40's 9
50's 18
60's 11
70's 3
I figured us 50 guys would be leading the pack here, but it surprises me that their are that many 20 age group sohc4 riders. Heck I've got underwear and socks that old ;D But I'm happy to see the young guys riding these old Honda's and realizing what great bike's they were and still are ;)

Thanks for doing the quick tally. If you combine 20s & 30s and 40s & 50s it is tied at 27 all.

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #90 on: November 07, 2015, 04:47:21 AM »
I am pretty much at the point where I can hide my own Esther eggs and meet the same new people everyday.  Pushing 67 but still above the dirt.  First new bike was a Honda 160 Scrambler, sold my four door 58 Chevy and worked my ass off with part time jobs after school and weekends to pay cash for it.  Rode it all through a Virginia winter the first year I had it since the Chevy was gone.  Buy next winter I had worked more part jobs to put a POS car back under me along with the bike, to this day I can still remember the cold............

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #91 on: November 07, 2015, 06:09:36 AM »

Just did a quick count(might of missed one or 2) on the age groups that have posted here so far:
20's 15
30's 12
40's 9
50's 18
60's 11
70's 3
I figured us 50 guys would be leading the pack here, but it surprises me that their are that many 20 age group sohc4 riders. Heck I've got underwear and socks that old ;D But I'm happy to see the young guys riding these old Honda's and realizing what great bike's they were and still are ;)

Would be interesting to know which ages are modifying these bikes (cafe's, bobbers, choppers, etc.) and which are keeping them stock or restoring them. I assume the younger a ones are modding and the older crowd are keeping stock but it would be cool to know for sure. Some sort of visual graph thing would be nice based off numbers of a vote.

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #92 on: November 07, 2015, 06:24:24 AM »
First bike was a big wheel.  At 20, I learned how to ride 0.5 milliseconds before careening into the side of a semi truck on a VF500 Interceptor.  Next year my 750F turns 40 & I'll be 50 with no regrets.

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #93 on: November 07, 2015, 05:34:20 PM »
I'll be 60 in Jan. I've been riding since I was 14, started on a Honda cub 50cc. I bought a new GL360 in 1974 and a Silverwing in 1982. 1985 Goldwing and a 1998 Goldwing with 94,xxx that I still ride. I've been working on a 1772 on and off for a couple years.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #94 on: November 07, 2015, 06:59:31 PM »
44 here! Dad had a red 70 750 that I remember as a kid! Was a huge BMX fan so Motorcycles didn't come til I was older. Id be long dead if I had one in my teens!
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #95 on: November 07, 2015, 09:04:49 PM »
52, bought my first 750 in 1979.... ;)
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #96 on: November 08, 2015, 04:50:15 AM »
I'm 37, and a 1973 CB500 is my current project and only CB, for now... I had another CB750 in 02- 03ish that I was going to cafe but never got a chance because we moved.

The CB500 is currently in the garage nestled between a 1976 Porsche 911, and a 1942 Willys Military Battle Trailer (MBT). 

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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #97 on: November 08, 2015, 07:44:18 AM »
I'll be 60 in Jan. I've been riding since I was 14, started on a Honda cub 50cc. I bought a new GL360 in 1974 and a Silverwing in 1982. 1985 Goldwing and a 1998 Goldwing with 94,xxx that I still ride. I've been working on a 1772 on and off for a couple years.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #98 on: November 08, 2015, 03:04:39 PM »
59 and 4 months

First bike: 2006 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail,

was my 50th birthday present.

Got my first Honda 1974 CB350F 2009, been adding since.
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Re: whats your age?
« Reply #99 on: November 08, 2015, 03:54:51 PM »

Just did a quick count(might of missed one or 2) on the age groups that have posted here so far:
20's 15
30's 12
40's 9
50's 18
60's 11
70's 3
I figured us 50 guys would be leading the pack here, but it surprises me that their are that many 20 age group sohc4 riders. Heck I've got underwear and socks that old ;D But I'm happy to see the young guys riding these old Honda's and realizing what great bike's they were and still are ;)

Would be interesting to know which ages are modifying these bikes (cafe's, bobbers, choppers, etc.) and which are keeping them stock or restoring them. I assume the younger a ones are modding and the older crowd are keeping stock but it would be cool to know for sure. Some sort of visual graph thing would be nice based off numbers of a vote.
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