« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: CB400F, the water bike.  (Read 7159 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline ratranger

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 62
Re: CB400F, the water bike.
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2019, 12:21:47 AM »
I've seen that one. Very impressive for the timetable.  Sadly the wheels on my XS were more than $1k, but they were the most expensive part.  I take a while on building things, part of it is money, part is motivation, and then I can finally make parts the way I want so I'm taking the time to make them.

Since my lathe is on the small side making the hub took a week and a half of off and on working.  But I'm OK with that since its getting me to where I want the bike to finish.
Logged

Offline SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan

  • Speak up, Whipper-Snapper! I'm a
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 15,556
  • SOHC/4 Member #1235
Re: CB400F, the water bike.
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2019, 09:32:50 AM »
Quote from: ratranger on May 23, 2019, 12:21:47 AM
I've seen that one. Very impressive for the timetable.  Sadly the wheels on my XS were more than $1k, but they were the most expensive part.  I take a while on building things, part of it is money, part is motivation, and then I can finally make parts the way I want so I'm taking the time to make them.

Since my lathe is on the small side making the hub took a week and a half of off and on working.  But I'm OK with that since its getting me to where I want the bike to finish.

I shared it because I thought you guys both have some shared sensibilities.  Looking forward to seeing your waterbike come along.
Logged
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 newday777

  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 6,797
  • Avatar is my 76 K6 in Colorado w/Cody on back 1980
Re: CB400F, the water bike.
« Reply #27 on: June 21, 2025, 06:01:04 AM »
Quote from: ratranger on May 23, 2019, 12:21:47 AM
I've seen that one. Very impressive for the timetable.  Sadly the wheels on my XS were more than $1k, but they were the most expensive part.  I take a while on building things, part of it is money, part is motivation, and then I can finally make parts the way I want so I'm taking the time to make them.

Since my lathe is on the small side making the hub took a week and a half of off and on working.  But I'm OK with that since its getting me to where I want the bike to finish.
I've just been reading through your build, any updates on it, I see it's been a while?
« Last Edit: June 21, 2025, 06:08:25 AM by newday777 »
Logged
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline ratranger

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 62
Re: CB400F, the water bike.
« Reply #28 on: June 21, 2025, 07:12:41 AM »
Quote from: newday777 on June 21, 2025, 06:01:04 AM

I've just been reading through your build, any updates on it, I see it's been a while?

 Not on this one.   The XS broke on the dyno, then I moved from WA to OK.  Owned a couple different bikes, then finally redid the XS.  The 400 has unfortunately not ended up on my radar to work on.  I still have it, it's still in boxes. 

Here's the redone XS. 
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Up
« previous next »