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Offline PetesPonies

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I'm going to call it done . .
« on: June 22, 2017, 10:13:32 AM »
I installed the last piece of the project, the front fender. I guess it's now done . .  although I'm sure some things will still take place, they always do. But the design and vision is finished. This is a '77 CB750 F . . .  in sheep's clothing. Thanks for all the help since I started out a CB750 ignoramus  . .but with a vision  :)








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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2017, 11:11:21 AM »
Nice paint, Pete. 

I bet I missed this somewhere.  I've seen more than a few K bikes with F tanks, but not the other way around.  Any particular reason?
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2017, 11:33:23 AM »
I have a 78 F.  This is good regrence material.  Minus the tank of courses.   Looks good

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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2017, 11:39:30 AM »
Its a very good looking bike

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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2017, 12:20:50 PM »
Great job! Congratulations.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2017, 01:13:40 PM »
She's a beauty
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2017, 01:18:11 PM »
Nice paint, Pete. 

I bet I missed this somewhere.  I've seen more than a few K bikes with F tanks, but not the other way around.  Any particular reason?

Its more than just a K tank . .look more. The reason is, I wanted it more vintage looking. I don't care for the F look.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2017, 01:21:50 PM »
Thanks guys . . . Just a thought at his point . . but I may take it to Barber in the fall.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2017, 05:29:36 PM »
Wow! That bike is sure gonna stand out. Great job!
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2017, 06:20:23 PM »
really nice bike,with a lot of great touches that you have to look to see,great job.wish I had your painting skills.bill
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« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2017, 07:09:02 PM »
really nice bike,with a lot of great touches that you have to look to see,great job.wish I had your painting skills.bill

I appreciate the compliment. Painting can be learned, give it a shot. I have a friend who has been a friend since we were 9 or 10 I guess. We always built bikes, then motorcycles and finally cars. I was always asked to paint his cars . .etc. But he decided a few years ago he wanted to do his own painting. I helped with advice, materials, tools, etc. He is actually doing great paint jobs now. He is like Mr McGoo as far as speed goes, and I tease him about that . . but the end product is great. He needed help once when I was living in Maryland. He couldn't get the finish right when he was buffing the final paint.I told him what to do, several times. But he needed help. I drove to his house  and in 30 seconds, showed him how to do it and what he was doing wrong. Literally, that is all the time it took. The moral to this story is you are never too old to learn and when you have been shown a few things, you can do amazing work.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2017, 08:54:12 AM »
Couple pics outside the shop:



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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2017, 10:22:21 AM »
Couple pics outside the shop:




It's a trick of the eye but the seat in the top photo almost looks green, too!
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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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2017, 10:25:13 AM »
Yeah that would be yukky wouldn't it ?? :(
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2017, 03:24:51 PM »
look great outside!the green changes with the light.bill
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2017, 06:42:30 PM »
Looks beautiful,  I love the color.

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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2017, 08:38:39 PM »
I like it.

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« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2017, 09:06:27 AM »
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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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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2017, 12:44:53 PM »
 May I ask how did you close up the tank to seat gap? I'm doing a 77K that was converted to an F'nK. Now that I own it I want to do the early K look.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2017, 01:46:55 PM »
There was no gap. I use an early K seat platform and I attached it to the original F hinges, so the seat hinges just as it did. This is the opposite direction from the early K seats. But everything works fine. I did modify the hinge slightly so the set would sit lower. I really wish it sat lower than it does now.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2017, 03:58:28 PM »
Like the others have said, great color.

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« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2017, 04:33:34 PM »
Thanks.
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2017, 05:14:30 PM »
Beautiful, and I'm just North of you.  Been looking for 4 into 2's.  Whose pipes are those?
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Re: I'm going to call it done . .
« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2017, 05:32:00 PM »
sweet ride !   great job

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« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2017, 05:39:38 PM »
I forget the name of the exhaust. They are old, but were never used. I bought them here from murdrcycle. Here's a pic of what the bike looked like when I go tit . . for the new comers  :)

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