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Re: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2016, 01:51:14 PM »
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Re: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #26 on: May 26, 2016, 01:54:55 PM »
Nope, Look further back near the frame mounts.
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Re: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2016, 01:56:52 PM »
It'll look more like this:

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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)
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"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: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #28 on: May 26, 2016, 02:37:02 PM »
Quote from: riffman12 on May 26, 2016, 12:29:26 PM
what on earth happened to that case? looks like a grenade went off in there.

Chain throw is my guess.
« Last Edit: May 28, 2016, 07:24:05 AM by dumbquestions »
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Re: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #29 on: May 26, 2016, 02:52:56 PM »
Finally found them:



Looks to be all B's.

So ideally I'd want a k3 case that has all B's?
« Last Edit: May 26, 2016, 02:54:27 PM by dumbquestions »
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Re: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #30 on: May 26, 2016, 03:26:40 PM »
Bingo.
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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: '73 CB750 redo for a clean "machine" look
« Reply #31 on: May 28, 2016, 07:23:44 AM »
Any thoughts on this transmission bearing? Should I pull it and keep it, or is it easily replaced?

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