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Offline OneWheelDrive

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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2016, 04:53:43 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on May 04, 2016, 04:22:45 PM
Throaty!

I saw that you used to have a Duc Hypermotard 1100.  I rode one of those ONCE.  Straight up hooligan bike. I had trouble keeping the front end down in every gear.  I could not imagine that amount of power being usable as a supermoto, but definitely as a hooligan bike.

Thank!  Yeah, the Hyper was an absolute hooligan.  It was a fantastic little canyon carver that taught me a lot about bike control, braking, and smoothly using throttle as you could get in trouble very quickly if you weren't focused.  A 75 mile range and the supermoto riding position made it impractical for longer trips though. 

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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Complete
« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2016, 11:03:30 AM »
Quote from: OneWheelDrive on April 22, 2016, 10:50:39 AM
Final touches included stainless brake lines from HEL and a properly bled system.  Front brake can now perform as well as the motor!





Dude, I have an easy fix for the unsightly surface rust on the fork tubes. 

Go to the auto-parts store and get a roll of the chrome tape they use for the bottom of pickup trucks (runs about 6 bucks). 
Slide the headlight ears all the way to the bottom, wrap the top part of each tube.
Then slide them to the top.  Wrap the bottom of that area and then slide the headlight ears to the middle to cover the seam. 
Presto!  Much cheaper than $250 for new fork tubes.
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Quote from: dave500 on February 14, 2014, 03:53:33 AM
if you dont trial spin the camshaft in the head and cover you are a novice,with no natural mechanical appitude,destined for destruction.
"The cleaner the dipstick, the closer to God." -Rev. Horton Heat
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”  - Hunter S. Thompson

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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #27 on: May 05, 2016, 04:09:07 PM »
Chrome tape?! Sacrilege.  If you are not going to replace them, I would remove the rust as best as you can (with sanding and/or foil) and paint with Rustoleum.
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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2016, 04:39:16 PM »
Haha, no foil tape, don't worry.  Since that photo was taken I have already removed the rust with 00 steel wool and lightly coated with marvel mystery oil.  I'm planning on replacing the front end eventually with modern forks, so no reason to spend too much time on the aesthetics.
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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #29 on: May 05, 2016, 05:57:02 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on May 05, 2016, 04:09:07 PM
Chrome tape?! Sacrilege.  If you are not going to replace them, I would remove the rust as best as you can (with sanding and/or foil) and paint with Rustoleum.

If you paint them, they will get scratched all to sh!t when you slide them in.  I cleaned the #$%* out of mine with steel wool and used CLR.  it doesn't really rust, but it it discolored.  the chrome tape looks just fine.   You can't tell it's there. 
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Quote from: dave500 on February 14, 2014, 03:53:33 AM
if you dont trial spin the camshaft in the head and cover you are a novice,with no natural mechanical appitude,destined for destruction.
"The cleaner the dipstick, the closer to God." -Rev. Horton Heat
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”  - Hunter S. Thompson

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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #30 on: May 05, 2016, 09:51:52 PM »
Quote from: CBGhia on May 05, 2016, 05:57:02 PM
the chrome tape looks just fine.   You can't tell it's there.

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

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Re: CB550 K0 "Too Long:Didn't Read" Cafe Project Finished
« Reply #31 on: May 06, 2016, 05:43:53 AM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on May 05, 2016, 09:51:52 PM
Quote from: CBGhia on May 05, 2016, 05:57:02 PM
the chrome tape looks just fine.   You can't tell it's there.

Sure.   ;)

LOL I suppose there are things I should not share. 
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Quote from: dave500 on February 14, 2014, 03:53:33 AM
if you dont trial spin the camshaft in the head and cover you are a novice,with no natural mechanical appitude,destined for destruction.
"The cleaner the dipstick, the closer to God." -Rev. Horton Heat
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”  - Hunter S. Thompson
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