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Offline TjTalan

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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #100 on: May 19, 2020, 07:17:49 PM »
I have a vision for the bike. However the cost is getting out of hand lol. So keeping to my vision is getting harder. Thats the main factor at the moment.


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« Reply #101 on: May 20, 2020, 08:27:30 AM »
Thanks for the response. 

If costs are a concern, a race motor can be rabbit hole of spending on high performance parts.  To really take advantage of a high compression over-bore piston kit, you'll want a cam and a ported head.  The head is probably the most important and most expensive.  BUT, you can do things in stages.  For instance, get the bike running and titled.  Reacquaint yourself with it and then make it go fast.

More important that getting it to go fast is improving the braking (which you are already doing) and upgrading the suspension.

Since you are in LA, I'd recommend you going to one of Brady Walker's Classic Track Day's at Willow Springs.  https://www.bradywalker.com/  They are very well run events and have suspension techs on hand to help dial things in.
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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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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #102 on: May 20, 2020, 09:24:38 AM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on May 20, 2020, 08:27:30 AM
Thanks for the response. 

If costs are a concern, a race motor can be rabbit hole of spending on high performance parts.  To really take advantage of a high compression over-bore piston kit, you'll want a cam and a ported head.

This is the Engine going in the bike, just with the high compression pistons.

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Dyna Ignition with wiring harness, kill switch and tach. “F” gearbox. Crank has been lightened, Carrillo rods, balanced. DOHC cb750F pistons (new valve pockets by Rick Andrews). Lots of head work, Megacycle cam (“Kenny Harmond F grind”), Black Diamond valves and springs, note the cam box hold down system.


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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #103 on: May 20, 2020, 05:56:46 PM »
Quote from: TjTalan on May 20, 2020, 09:24:38 AM
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on May 20, 2020, 08:27:30 AM
Thanks for the response. 

If costs are a concern, a race motor can be rabbit hole of spending on high performance parts.  To really take advantage of a high compression over-bore piston kit, you'll want a cam and a ported head.

This is the Engine going in the bike, just with the high compression pistons.

Pulled from the listing...
Dyna Ignition with wiring harness, kill switch and tach. “F” gearbox. Crank has been lightened, Carrillo rods, balanced. DOHC cb750F pistons (new valve pockets by Rick Andrews). Lots of head work, Megacycle cam (“Kenny Harmond F grind”), Black Diamond valves and springs, note the cam box hold down system.


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Oh! That sounds fun!!  BenelliSEI is hooking you up!
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
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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: My dream bike.
« Reply #104 on: August 04, 2020, 02:02:28 PM »






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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #105 on: August 04, 2020, 02:19:09 PM »
Looks great. Is she rideable?
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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #106 on: August 04, 2020, 02:21:22 PM »
Not yet, and we are about to move across the country from California to Oklahoma. So it’s going on the back burner again here shortly.


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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #107 on: August 05, 2020, 08:34:50 AM »
Great looking progress.  Now you just need to complete "everything else", right?  Good luck with the move.  Make sure to organize all of your parts and label boxes before moving.  Stuff tends to get misplaced in moves.
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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

Offline TjTalan

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Re: My dream bike.
« Reply #108 on: August 05, 2020, 04:04:04 PM »
 I will do my best with organization, sometimes it’s second nature other times not so much. What’s exciting is I now have all of the components for completion. Next step when it’s in its new home, complete disassembly, coating bits and buffing others. Then final assembly, and some long fast rides!





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