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Offline riverfever

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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #450 on: January 28, 2017, 09:12:44 AM »
That really turned out sharp Steve. I love the fairing. Congrats man. Enjoy it.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #451 on: February 14, 2017, 09:45:04 AM »
Hey Stev-o, sorry I'd been away for a while but this is just drop dead gorgeous! Very well done!


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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #452 on: February 14, 2017, 10:34:03 AM »
Undisputed!
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #453 on: February 14, 2017, 11:57:33 AM »
Undisputed!
There's only a few builds that come across these threads that really make me envious and want that particular bike. I admire all of them in their own way, but some just stir me deeply. This one shakes and stirs me for all the right reasons. So, Stev-o, if it ever goes missing, you'll know exactly where to find it. And I promise to take very good care of it while I "borrow" it.  8)
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #454 on: February 15, 2017, 06:10:57 AM »
Well done!   Really, really did the fairing and the colors. 
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #455 on: February 15, 2017, 07:14:04 AM »
My favorite part of this bike is the color choices on the motor parts and hardware.  Really a sweet bike.

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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #456 on: February 15, 2017, 03:38:03 PM »
Hey Stev-o, sorry I'd been away for a while but this is just drop dead gorgeous! Very well done!



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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #457 on: February 24, 2017, 02:58:40 PM »
Thanks for all the kind words, guys.  It was a real fun project, took longer than it should of, but why rush, right? [BTW - I've started on the H2, wanted to finish this one first]

Dont forget to vote for your favorite bike in BOTM, whichever one it may be!
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #458 on: February 24, 2017, 04:11:31 PM »
Voted.

I've got plans to attend the Giddy Up Chopper Show in New Braunfels on 3/25.  We might be riding around in your area on Friday.  Might take the CB750 if it's done and I can do some testing first.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #459 on: February 24, 2017, 04:16:09 PM »

  We might be riding around in your area on Friday. 

Let me know, you have my number.  I'm trying to wrap up a project at work next week [build out of a real estate office] so it would be tough to take a day off, but I could possibly cut out early.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #460 on: February 24, 2017, 04:29:34 PM »
Let me know, you have my number.  I'm trying to wrap up a project at work next week [build out of a real estate office] so it would be tough to take a day off, but I could possibly cut out early.

My bad.  I meant Friday, 3/24, the day before the show.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #461 on: February 25, 2017, 08:24:12 AM »
The Park Racer is currently the screen saver on my work machine.  :)
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #462 on: February 25, 2017, 08:56:57 AM »
The Park Racer is currently the screen saver on my work machine.  :)

Wow....quite an honor, Rick!
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #463 on: February 25, 2017, 07:14:50 PM »
The Park Racer is currently the screen saver on my work machine.  :)

Wow....quite an honor, Rick!

LOL well it's a sweet looking bike Stev-O, you done good man! (Not gonna say who I voted for, but we all know who I voted for #BOTM) ;D
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #464 on: February 25, 2017, 07:53:46 PM »
The Park Racer is currently the screen saver on my work machine.  :)

Wow....quite an honor, Rick!

LOL well it's a sweet looking bike Stev-O, you done good man! (Not gonna say who I voted for, but we all know who I voted for #BOTM) ;D

Thanks Rick.  I'm def up against some stiff competition. 
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #465 on: February 26, 2017, 02:28:53 AM »
'm def up against some stiff competition.
Which makes the victory more sweet  :) (Same can be said for Agent Orange).
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #466 on: February 26, 2017, 05:36:09 AM »
Pretty sure whoever I vote for always loses...so, who wants my vote!
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #467 on: February 26, 2017, 10:09:14 AM »
Pretty sure whoever I vote for always loses...so, who wants my vote!

That happens to many of us!
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)

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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: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #468 on: February 26, 2017, 06:41:19 PM »
Pretty sure whoever I vote for always loses...so, who wants my vote!

That happens to many of us!
ah well, it's still lots of fun to see all these awesome bikes getting attention!  Thanks for running the "Bike of the Month" CRF and thanks to Steve-O for saving  another sweet old bike.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #469 on: July 03, 2017, 08:59:03 AM »
Stev-o,

Your Park Racer has been nominated for August 2017 BOTM.  Please be so kind as to post that you accept in the nomination thread:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,166856.0.html
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)

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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
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #470 on: July 06, 2017, 07:28:46 AM »
Stev-o,

Your Park Racer has been nominated for August 2017 BOTM.  Please be so kind as to post that you accept in the nomination thread:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,166856.0.html

Thanks Don.   

I wanted to take The PArk Racer for a spin last weekend, rolled it out and turns out the battery was dead.  I was so disappointed.  Will pull the seat and charge it up. I plan to put a pigtail on the battery so I can charge the battery w/o pulling the seat ...
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Re: Stev-o's K3 "Park Racer"
« Reply #471 on: July 06, 2017, 08:46:38 AM »
Stev-o,

Your Park Racer has been nominated for August 2017 BOTM.  Please be so kind as to post that you accept in the nomination thread:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,166856.0.html

Thanks Don.   

I wanted to take The PArk Racer for a spin last weekend, rolled it out and turns out the battery was dead.  I was so disappointed.  Will pull the seat and charge it up. I plan to put a pigtail on the battery so I can charge the battery w/o pulling the seat ...

Bummer, but a good call on the pigtail.  I put a Battery Tender quick connect/disconnect cable on pretty much every bike I own and leave the ones I am not riding weekly on the Tender.
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: Stev-o's K3 &quot;Park Racer&quot;
« Reply #472 on: July 06, 2017, 09:12:33 AM »
One word...Lithium Ion Battery.  Supposed to hold a charge for a year.
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Re: Stev-o's K3 &quot;Park Racer&quot;
« Reply #473 on: July 06, 2017, 10:16:43 AM »
Three words...Lithium Ion Battery.  Supposed to hold a charge for a year.
FTFY
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Re: Stev-o's K3 &quot;Park Racer&quot;
« Reply #474 on: July 06, 2017, 10:31:59 AM »
Three words...Lithium Ion Battery.  Supposed to hold a charge for a year.
FTFY

I was being facetious.
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