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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #550 on: November 04, 2017, 04:50:44 PM »
Sorry to hear, but I’m afraid I’ve got that beat.
That is such a heartbreaker, Cal.  Glad your oldest is on the mend.
Is there anything worth picking off that wreck?
Thanks for the well wishes, Don, but Only the memories are salvageable. Adjuster stopped once the repair costs exceeded $15k and he hadn’t even gotten past the tank. Frame sneered at the steering head, front end toast, cluster, exhaust, cooling, tank, bodywork, seat... all gone. But he’s still here and going to mend up. Already looking for the replacement ride for Spring.

Maybe the upcoming KTM Duke 790
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)

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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
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #551 on: November 04, 2017, 11:50:26 PM »
Sorry to hear, but I’m afraid I’ve got that beat.

Dang Cal, hope you are OK! Or whomever was riding the S1000R is OK... That is one nasty looking wrecked bike.
I hope you and RustyOlive have your insurance paid up and valued appropriately...unfortunately Cal yours look pretty much toasted.

Rusty...other than tank, all can be done fairly easily and inexpensively...  Would hope you filed a police report...but that tags your bike as having been in an accident.
Any traffic cams or bank cams to catch the offending vehicle?

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Re: Olivia's Face lift. 78 CB550 build.
« Reply #552 on: September 09, 2020, 05:36:20 PM »
Does anyone in Canada preferably near Toronto have a spare 1976 Honda CB750F rear spoked wheel hub/carrier/caliper (for disc)?  Cam aka RustyOlive needs to source one to repair his Olivia build.  I have a hub but not the caliper and carrier but I'm in the US and shipping is stupid expensive to cross to border.  PM me or Facebook message Cameron Bateman on Facebook if you have one.
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