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The 750 in the Subaru.
« on: September 10, 2018, 03:27:48 PM »
 Just picked this up for my son .
 No truck..
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2018, 03:32:31 PM »
Wrong section, wanted projects will move it later..
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Kelowna B.C.       Canada

My next bike will be a ..ANFOB.....

It's All part of the ADVENTURE...

73 836cc.. Green, had it for 3 decades!!
Lost quite a few CB 750's along the way

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2018, 05:41:16 PM »
where there is a will there is a way.bill
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2018, 06:28:43 PM »
Damn Frank!  That beard is getting long  ;D

You gonna make your son do the dirty work?  Is this his first bike?

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2018, 06:41:20 PM »
First bike for him,  he only got his first car 4 months back.
 He is way behind the curve on mechanical stuff, we all learned it much earlier in life.
 Yes I will try to teach him a few things, using this as a way to do it.,

 The bike I basically ok, wept for some nastyframe damage,  and fork corrosion.  Really fugly pipes were on it, but I have a 4-1 for it. But it was real cheap and has reggie, and fired up on about 3 cylinders easily. Cases look good fins pretty good.. It was under 300 bux and 4 hrs away.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2018, 10:35:34 AM by 754 »
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Kelowna B.C.       Canada

My next bike will be a ..ANFOB.....

It's All part of the ADVENTURE...

73 836cc.. Green, had it for 3 decades!!
Lost quite a few CB 750's along the way

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2018, 07:24:20 PM »
Looks like Terry's hillbilly thread might have some compitition with you delivery system!

Good find. That's how I taught my kid, only it was a Toyota 4x with a bad motor. That was over 12 years ago and we still talk about it from time to time. I told him as long as he was helping the work would continue, if he stopped then I stopped. It worked out very well.

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2018, 11:54:02 PM »
as a subaru guy, past owner of two legacies SW (now a forester), not surprised, these things ARE trucks :)

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2018, 01:07:28 AM »
Sweden apparently likes to heat the cargo area and enclose it...

Carried home from Phoenix a Honda C70 Passport in my 86 Volvo 240 sedan with wheels on. 


Bike was not in the trunk, but inside the cabin.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2018, 04:48:09 AM by RAF122S »
David- back in the desert SW!

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2018, 09:36:20 AM »
Bike in a car!  Any way you can!
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2018, 08:31:18 PM »
managed to get a lambretta in the boot ( trunk ) of an austin 1800 one day, couldn't quite close the lid but we got it home
i blame Terry

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2018, 04:42:36 AM »
when i was a pennyless student, managed to fit a Zundapp DB200
http://www.zundapps.com/models/db200
into my 1969 Susita station
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocars_Co.#/media/File:EM-susita-12-50-2.jpg
lid wouldnt close either:)
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2018, 09:41:31 AM »
In 81 , in December,  I decided to go after a yet unfulfilled dream..
 Spend a Winter in Calfornia..
 So flush with cash after, a few months working in the woods clearing, for a dam project, I set out.
I wanted to cruise in style in my 62 BelAir Bubbletop. So I pulled out all the seats  made a ramp and rolled my Amen 750 chopper in backwards through the drivers door. Whenbthe front wheel got to the sill, I removed that, pulled the bike the rest of the way in. Then installed 2 bucket seats and off I went
 I spent from Dec 27th to Feb 4 away, headed straight south. Spent the most glorious winter cruising around California. . Went to the Rock Store every Sunday..
  Fun times..

Confession...
 AT 15 YEARS OF AGE  1971, i got the brilliant idea to go to California for the winter..
 I think I had like 23.00. I started the November day like any other, pretended to go off to school. But got my stashed gear, got on the highway and hitchhiked South . Snuck across the border into the USA.
 Spent a very cool night under the roof of a church  no air mattress.. freaking cool out.
 The next morning I went to a place and got some surplus Navy gloves, stiff as a board. Figuring to wash them, headed to a laundromat, when a guy in a Corolla pulled up , smoking a Colt cigar.  Wearing a Lee Stormrider jacket..  after a quick exchange, turns out he was Border Patrol,and he grabbed me. 
 I got sent home...
 So it took a few more years, to fulfill that Dream....
« Last Edit: September 13, 2018, 09:56:54 PM by 754 »
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Kelowna B.C.       Canada

My next bike will be a ..ANFOB.....

It's All part of the ADVENTURE...

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Lost quite a few CB 750's along the way

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2018, 10:29:55 PM »
One time Henry showed up at my place in the CA high desert with his XR500 strapped down on it's side to the roof of a POS Honda Civic wagon. :o How he managed to wrestle it up there I don't know. Damn, he passed 6 years ago today.. :'( :'(
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2018, 10:38:12 PM »
Scott, it is strange how it still stings the loss of a close close friend like Henry after so many years.  You guys were like brothers.

Raise a glass to Henry, one of a kind and still sorely missed!
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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2018, 08:19:29 AM »
I have never loaded my Subie Luke that. Excellent job.

HOWEVER......I am glad you handsome son took after his mother!
As of today 3/13/2012 my original owner 75 CB750F has made it through 3 wives, er EX-wives. Free at last.  ;-)

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Re: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2018, 08:20:20 AM »
I have never loaded my Subie Luke that.

But now you know you could (if necessary!).
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: The 750 in the Subaru.
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2018, 09:46:47 AM »
Damn Jerry  I almost blew coffee thru my nose...
 Jerry you have a Subie, but yet drove that other heap to Bonneville .. you can sleep in it.

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Kelowna B.C.       Canada

My next bike will be a ..ANFOB.....

It's All part of the ADVENTURE...

73 836cc.. Green, had it for 3 decades!!
Lost quite a few CB 750's along the way