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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #100 on: April 12, 2017, 08:49:56 PM »
Some more updated bits











Tires and tubes will be here Friday.  Once we get those mounted up we can begin assembly of pretty much everything.  Still need to order some odds and ends all around.  Probably going to send the exhaust out to get recoated so it looks brand new!  We also need to order brake rotors, which are insanely expensive :(
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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #101 on: June 05, 2017, 07:49:40 PM »
Long time no update....

Got some tires mounted up.



Also got the fuse block in the mail!



Got the headlight clamps fitted and blinkers installed.



For the first time i put power to the harness and turned the key.  No smoke, no fire, no burning so thats a plus!  Gauge lights work.  Info center works.  Blinkers work.  Brake light works.  Must have done something right so far!
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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #102 on: June 06, 2017, 02:59:08 PM »
I like those fork ears.
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Offline 503400f

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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #103 on: June 06, 2017, 09:22:11 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on June 06, 2017, 02:59:08 PM
I like those fork ears.

Thanks! I think were going to end up doing something very similar on her Triumph Street Twin to get rid of the bulky plastic ones.
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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #104 on: June 06, 2017, 11:48:17 PM »
I didn't know that the new Triumph Street Twin had plastic fork ears. My Thruxton R doesn't.
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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)

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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: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #105 on: June 11, 2017, 08:01:23 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on June 06, 2017, 11:48:17 PM
I didn't know that the new Triumph Street Twin had plastic fork ears. My Thruxton R doesn't.

I suppose they could be metal. I didn't really look at them closely to be honest. I just know she Complains about the look of them lol.
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Re: 1977 CB400F Rebuild
« Reply #106 on: January 18, 2019, 03:32:32 PM »
Old thread, I know... I'm cruising around looking for info and ideas for my CB400...

Does anyone know what happened with this build?  I wonder why these guys disappeared so close to finishing?
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