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Offline bigjeff

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cb500 Springer chopper
« on: March 31, 2017, 05:02:01 AM »
Not for everyone I know - but yes I did.

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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2017, 05:07:27 AM »
All the cool kids have one!

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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2017, 05:19:02 AM »
nice jag - I have seen that bike before in google - very nice.

Where did you get that points cover?
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2017, 05:26:47 AM »
http://www.fb-stuff.com/fb-stuff-store.html

Owner is a long time member here and really good guy.
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2017, 05:57:04 AM »
thanks Jag

ass shot of bike  :)

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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2017, 06:18:17 AM »
The brat seat seems out of place but the rest is old school cool. I really have come to appreciate a /4 chopper.
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2017, 06:30:46 AM »
yeah - it does look different but I am 6'4" and had to get the seat high for my legs to fit so that is how I handled it.  It is very comfortable though.  :)
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2017, 08:44:47 AM »
Quote from: jaguar on March 31, 2017, 05:26:47 AM
http://www.fb-stuff.com/fb-stuff-store.html

Owner is a long time member here and really good guy.

Is he still making them?
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2017, 08:46:00 AM »
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2017, 08:47:46 AM »
Quote from: jaguar on March 31, 2017, 08:46:00 AM
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on March 31, 2017, 08:44:47 AM
Quote from: jaguar on March 31, 2017, 05:26:47 AM
http://www.fb-stuff.com/fb-stuff-store.html

Owner is a long time member here and really good guy.

Is he still making them?
I assume so.

Ah. That's right. I was confused about the metal ones he was making.
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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)
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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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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: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2017, 01:03:14 PM »
Both of those bikes are trick! The first one is a bit too long for me but still very cool. Jaguar, yours makes me want another 550 project.


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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2017, 07:33:14 PM »
Mine did make me want another CB550!

Cleaning up a stock CB500 right now.
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2017, 05:18:21 AM »
Quote from: bigjeff on March 31, 2017, 05:02:01 AM
Not for everyone I know - but yes I did.
Great looking front wheel. Too bad you could'n't source a rear to match. #2 cylinder looks to be running pretty lean by the coloring of the header. Might do a Clear Tube fuel level check on the carbs.
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2017, 05:42:29 AM »
Are those production frames? Or one off?
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2017, 11:34:48 AM »
Looks like Jags is a custom frame and Jeffs is a modified stock frame. Cool bikes guys!
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Re: cb500 Springer chopper
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2017, 07:17:05 PM »
Mine is an Amen frame.
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