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Offline Folsoe

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And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« on: December 02, 2015, 09:56:44 AM »
So once again a cb 500 Four from 1975. Actually with a frame number that is only very few numbers apart from the other :). Quite a coincidence , but both were registered in same part of the country. ( southern Denmark.) So i guess maybe they come from the same dealer. One were sold in juli 75 and one in sept 75. 

Just missing the exhaust , waiting for it from Holland.  -- What to do meanwhile ... :)
 
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2015, 10:36:44 AM »
lovely work, compliments!
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2015, 10:49:33 AM »
Very nice.  Did you do a complete restoration or was the bike (sans tank) in that condition when you got it?  Some "before" and progress photos would be great!
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Offline Folsoe

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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2015, 11:24:21 AM »
Well. :) i bought 2 bikes.. One registered and one without papers ,  they were really not so very fine at that stage. See photos :)  then made it into one bike :)

This time i did not take so many photos of progress.

Thanks for your comments :)
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2015, 01:46:22 PM »
Well done, Folsoe.
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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)

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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
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2015, 03:04:24 PM »
Really nice work
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2015, 03:20:55 PM »
Awesome job, congratulations,Folsoe.
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2015, 08:45:23 AM »
Very nice work!!
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :) TIME FOR UPDATE
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2016, 01:50:03 AM »

Now Im waiting for the last parts :) 

- Then the collection of cb 500´s from 1975 should be complete :)
actually all VIN´s are almost identical on these three,- sold in denmark from juli to october 1975. VIN number´s  in the range of max 200 from each other. Two of them only 5 numbers apart from each other .  Quite a coincidence actually.

sent a 4-1 laser exhaust + 4 original exhausts hm 323 + front & rear fender + front fork ears for re-chroming at Ashford chroming in Kent England .   Hope to get it back soon, have waited a month now.
When recieved back , it will all go on .

Paintjobs done by 2 local guys,- two with real candy paint  plus one with metallic +flake. I really like the flake job :) 

The flake honda i had never had started before yesterday, was a mess when i bought it .  have been completely gone trough the last few months with new gaskets etc.  It turns out to have yoshimura cam and ported heads and big bore cylinders. But yesterday i tried to fire it up,- (without exhausts)  and it fired right up just after 20 cranks!!)   I have big expectations to that one :)
enjoy photo :)


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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2016, 01:52:28 AM »
more photos of the paint jobs :)
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Re: And one more cb 500 90 pct finished :)
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2016, 02:29:49 AM »
Nice work Folsoe ;) If my current 71 CB500 project comes out looking anything near this I'll be more than happy ;D
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