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Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« on: April 01, 2018, 09:53:34 PM »
Once again, nominations are OPEN for Bike of the Month -- for May 2018!  Let's see some stunners!
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2018, 06:29:40 AM »
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2018, 07:05:08 AM »
I'll second that gorgeous 550F...
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2018, 08:05:42 AM »
so you love it enough as it is, and don't even want to see what the next changes will be? well ok, i accept.

and let me then also nominate scott's 500 again: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,161158.0.html
hoping for a re-run of the middleweights shootout that did not quite happen last year!
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2018, 08:18:40 AM »
Quote from: flatlander on April 03, 2018, 08:05:42 AM
so you love it enough as it is, and don't even want to see what the next changes will be? well ok, i accept.

and let me then also nominate scott's 500 again: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,161158.0.html
hoping for a re-run of the middleweights shootout that did not quite happen last year!
I'll second Scott's and split my vote between you two good friends  :D
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2018, 11:19:41 AM »
 Man, I'm torn, but I'll accept. Maybe third time's the charm!?
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2018, 11:22:09 AM »
 Fresh(er) pics, just because.

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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2018, 04:02:49 PM »
Quote from: Scott S on April 03, 2018, 11:22:09 AM
Fresh(er) pics, just because.

How about a sound recording of those pipes with the bike ridden in anger?
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2018, 08:01:18 PM »
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on April 03, 2018, 04:02:49 PM
Quote from: Scott S on April 03, 2018, 11:22:09 AM
Fresh(er) pics, just because.

How about a sound recording of those pipes with the bike ridden in anger?

Good idea, I wanna hear anger!
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2018, 10:38:03 PM »
Here's flatlander's 400 with the same style Benelli replica pipes:
click here for video
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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
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2018, 10:54:29 PM »
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2018, 06:28:36 AM »
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2018, 07:12:03 AM »
 A little cloudy out today, but here's a fresh vid (and I still don't know how to embed videos on this site).

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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2018, 11:18:12 AM »
 After seeing a recent picture of member Lash and his stash, I wish there was a way to get one of his beautiful looking 750's in the running someday since I do not think he has ever been in the contest. Looks like he has done a fine job on them. Eric 
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2018, 03:49:10 PM »
 For some reason, when I tried to stabilize the video YouTube loses over 30 seconds of it. Here it is in it's (shaky) entirety.

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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2018, 11:21:02 PM »
yes i thought the first version was cut a bit early.
and this post has some pics of mine: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,134863.msg1972017.html#msg1972017
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2018, 07:17:08 PM »
I'd like to nominate Hasenkopf's supercharged CB550 - some impressive level of fabrication, having cast his own parts!

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,152536.125.html

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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2018, 10:19:38 AM »
Quote from: Bootsey on April 08, 2018, 07:17:08 PM
I'd like to nominate Hasenkopf's supercharged CB550 - some impressive level of fabrication, having cast his own parts!

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,152536.125.html


I'll second that!  Great 500/550 battle :)
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2018, 10:14:22 PM »
Hey, that's cool, I do hereby accept the nomination!
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Re: Nominate for Bike of the Month May 2018
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2018, 10:33:29 PM »
Quote from: flatlander on April 03, 2018, 08:05:42 AM
so you love it enough as it is, and don't even want to see what the next changes will be? well ok, i accept.

and let me then also nominate scott's 500 again: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,161158.0.html
hoping for a re-run of the middleweights shootout that did not quite happen last year!
Second again and again.
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