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Offline theslayedsaint

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Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« on: January 10, 2017, 10:55:02 AM »
check this new Honda out! also feel free to move the post to better place

1974 CB750 custom build cafe racer
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Offline flybox1

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Re: Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2017, 11:02:06 AM »
'78 750K (F3 engine) PD42b's, Modified airbox w/K&N  filter, 40/110 jets, 1 needle shim, IMS@ 1 turn out. Kerker + Cone 18" QuietCore

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1974 550K0 (stock), 1973 CB350F (stock), 1983 Yamaha XS400K (POS)
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Offline SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan

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Re: Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2017, 12:10:17 PM »
Oh, the self-balancing bike that follows you like Rover.
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

Offline BomberMann650

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Re: Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2017, 01:46:30 PM »
Oh, the self-balancing bike that follows you like Rover.

I'd wanna name it Spot

Offline kerryb

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Re: Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 02:09:23 PM »
Now I don't have to ponder the day that I won't be strong enough to hold my bike up and push it around the garage.
What if the bike doesn't want to take the same route I do?   Will there be an over-ride?

This could get contentious...
intrigued by the wail...seduced by the scream.

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Re: Not a SOHC BUT AMAZING
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2017, 07:06:28 PM »
Its like getting your horse to take you home from the bar if you get baked............maybe...
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