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Offline Stev-o

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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #125 on: October 12, 2016, 07:16:19 AM »
It's always something when owning a house.  The master bathroom remodel is next on our list. We've already done the kitchen, all flooring [except mas bath] and landscaping.
It never ends....
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #126 on: October 12, 2016, 07:39:45 AM »
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that once I finish all of the house projects I'll have to start back at the beginning and replace whatever I did first because it will now be old and broken.  ;D ;D :'(
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #127 on: October 25, 2016, 05:04:31 AM »
I got the tank stripped in prep for powdering it.....but I may have to paint it. There's just too much damage. The couple dents on the top I may have some luck pulling but the old rust repair in the back corner isn't going to be that easy to smooth over. I'm going to try to braze it some more but I'm betting that bondo and a tank lining are in my future.



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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #128 on: October 25, 2016, 06:58:11 AM »
that last pic looks like a battle scar....
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #129 on: October 25, 2016, 07:37:00 AM »
Quote from: Stev-o on October 25, 2016, 06:58:11 AM
that last pic looks like a battle scar....
Now you're scar-shaming?!?  How insensitive of you, Stev-o  :o
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #130 on: October 25, 2016, 08:03:06 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on October 25, 2016, 07:37:00 AM
Quote from: Stev-o on October 25, 2016, 06:58:11 AM
that last pic looks like a battle scar....
Now you're scar-shaming?!?  How insensitive of you, Stev-o  :o
;D ;D ;D

I guessed rust repair since there is visible pitting just above the nasty spot but, at this point, I haven't completely ruled out leprosy or tank-eating zombie bacteria either.
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #131 on: October 25, 2016, 09:29:09 AM »
Tank leprosy -- the scourge!!
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #132 on: October 25, 2016, 03:57:02 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on October 25, 2016, 07:37:00 AM
Quote from: Stev-o on October 25, 2016, 06:58:11 AM
that last pic looks like a battle scar....
Now you're scar-shaming?!?  How insensitive of you, Stev-o  :o

Not shaming.  Chicks dig scars!
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #133 on: October 31, 2016, 12:19:33 PM »
Made a bit more progress last week. The tach is back together and functioning. I had to spring for the joker machine gauge clamps since my crimp rings were both beyond salvageable. I probably could have found new crimp rings for less but this way the gauges will be serviceable in the future.



I also found this stuff that I'm going to try on the leprous tank. The internet says that it works well as body filler for powder coating. Given the price, I'm hoping the internet is correct:

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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #134 on: October 31, 2016, 01:41:02 PM »
That gauge looks great with that clamp!
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #135 on: October 31, 2016, 03:22:10 PM »
Quote from: riverfever on October 31, 2016, 01:41:02 PM
That gauge looks great with that clamp!

+1. Havent seen those...
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #136 on: November 01, 2016, 12:15:11 PM »
For posterity (and so you can all laugh at me for over-spending on something so small) Here's the link:

http://www.jokermachine.com/products/cb750-speedo-tach-clamp-rings.html

I actually ended up ordering them from CycleX since the silver clamps were slightly cheaper for some inexplicable reason.
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #137 on: November 03, 2016, 12:25:06 PM »
Finished up the Speedo and reassembled the gauge cluster:

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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #138 on: November 03, 2016, 12:44:21 PM »
The Joker clamps add some pizzazz to the gauges.
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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #139 on: June 08, 2017, 05:46:28 AM »
Well, it's been forever and a day but I'm finally getting back to this build. I had grand plans of recreating something similar to the stock 4-into-4 exhaust. However, the urge to just ride has overridden my wishful thinking. So, I bit the bullet and bought a set of Delkavic 4-into-1 pipes for it. I got them on last night and fired it up for the first time in 20 years. It ran surprisingly well. Now, to tackle that tank welt......

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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #140 on: June 08, 2017, 08:49:09 AM »
That looks nice, wowbagger.
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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
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #141 on: June 08, 2017, 03:18:39 PM »
+1 looks good and what a bargain...
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #142 on: October 04, 2018, 10:15:36 AM »
Man, I stink at follow through. I finished this bike up back in the spring and have put almost 500 miles on it already.  I just got Frank's emblems painted and installed today though. Here's a couple of wrap up shots.
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Re: 1972 "CB525" Backyard Rescue
« Reply #143 on: October 07, 2018, 06:47:18 PM »
Wow man!  That's a great thread and better build!  Enjoy the ride... she looks pretty!
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