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Offline jaguar

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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2017, 05:20:38 AM »
small box of parts.

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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2017, 07:09:20 AM »
Quote from: jaguar on April 08, 2017, 04:14:12 AM
How about a deal on that set of 550/500 lesters?......

Using them on a "daily" build of my own that GV1390 is helping me on......using a chassis we got from you LOL.



Tomaselli adjustable clubmans, Lesters, 550f header to refurb'd supertrapp, NOS never used tank and emblems, brand new seat.....
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2017, 07:38:19 AM »
NICE!
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2017, 08:26:09 AM »
I got a extra set of 550 Lester's if you are looking.
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #29 on: April 10, 2017, 08:30:52 AM »
Quote from: Camrector on April 10, 2017, 08:26:09 AM
I got a extra set of 550 Lester's if you are looking.

$?

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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2017, 12:58:53 PM »
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #31 on: April 18, 2017, 10:32:19 AM »
Not a whole lot has been going on with the CB500.
Spent one week in Chicago at a trade show, then lost a few days doing some wedding planing.

Have been using my "shop truck" a fair bit though.


Moved that H2 project I had around.
Loaded the CL450 and moved that from storage.
Next is to haul the Norton to the new owner and haul back another cool bike!
So stuff is actually happening, just not much CB500 stuff.

Ordered some engine cover gaskets.
Plan to pull the covers for either vapor blasting or hand polishing.
Hope to swap the dual disc front end onto the bike this weekend as well as change the bars.

Still unsure if I will change the seat or not.
Kinda on the fence on the direction.
Also feeling I like the CL450 ALOT more, so the CB500 might not stay long......
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2017, 10:59:02 AM »
Quote from: jaguar on April 18, 2017, 10:32:19 AM
Not a whole lot has been going on with the CB500.
Spent one week in Chicago at a trade show, then lost a few days doing some wedding planing.

Have been using my "shop truck" a fair bit though.


Moved that H2 project I had around.
Loaded the CL450 and moved that from storage.
Next is to haul the Norton to the new owner and haul back another cool bike!
So stuff is actually happening, just not much CB500 stuff.

Ordered some engine cover gaskets.
Plan to pull the covers for either vapor blasting or hand polishing.
Hope to swap the dual disc front end onto the bike this weekend as well as change the bars.

Still unsure if I will change the seat or not.
Kinda on the fence on the direction.
Also feeling I like the CL450 ALOT more, so the CB500 might not stay long......

Nice shop truck.  My buddy had those (widened) police wheels on his, along with a push bumper and spotlight. 
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #33 on: April 18, 2017, 01:27:16 PM »
Wheels are the truck are 22 inch "transport" wheels.
While OEM, they are not exactly something the "public" gets to buy.
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2017, 05:16:22 AM »
Scored some Koni fully adjustable alloy bodied shocks cheap via eBay!

Still struggling to get into this bike, but maybe some cool parts will change that.
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #35 on: April 20, 2017, 06:04:14 AM »
The shocks I bought.
Have had great luck with these in the past.
Rebuildable, so that is nice.  Anyone have any links to a DIY to rebuild them?  I never have done that job, and think it might be fun to learn.

The alloy bodies really polish up nice, and the "dial-a-ride" is a nice option.

Figure these are better then the mullholland ones I had for for the bike.


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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2017, 06:39:13 AM »
Jag - nice find on the Konis.  Those will fit the 500, has the clevis bottom mount?
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #37 on: April 20, 2017, 06:51:07 AM »
I actually just assumed that all the SOHC Honda were eye-clevis mounts like the 750!
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2017, 08:55:29 AM »
Is that a clevis at the bottom -- looks like it is hidden with the aluminum material?  The 500 uses clevis like the 550, 750, 400 etc. CBs. 

And you can get any rebuild parts from Nils!
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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: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #39 on: April 20, 2017, 09:32:46 AM »
Jaguar,

Beautiful, original CB500... I've been wanting one for a while! Let me know if you ever decide to part with it! lol
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #40 on: April 20, 2017, 10:29:27 AM »
They actually might be eye/eye....
Either way they were too cheap not to buy.
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Re: CB500 Daily Rider.
« Reply #41 on: April 20, 2017, 02:18:37 PM »
Quote from: jaguar on April 20, 2017, 10:29:27 AM
They actually might be eye/eye....
Either way they were too cheap not to buy.

Maybe you can get a clevis bottom from Nils to use them on a CB.
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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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