Topic: Terry's new new redneck K0 "Special"..........

[grcamna2]

Thanks guys, I'd like to go back to the 1980's when I could buy CB750's and Z1's for pennies, then buy as many as I could and store them somewhere safe, and I'd be a wealthy man now. Of course, the "Butterfly Effect" might turn that dream into a nightmare, damn it. The floods up north (nowhere near me) are devastating, whole towns under water.

It's sadly ironic that this time last year we were still mopping up the massive bushfires that decimated whole communities right along the Eastern Seaboard, and now it's under water. Hopefully we won't get any of that volume of rain down here, 2020 sucked with bushfires and Covid-19 lockdowns, I'd really like just one trouble free year this year so I can get on with bike fixing and riding.

I also want 2021' to be excellent for myself and have new opportunities to improve my circumstances and enjoy My life.Terry,you might see if you can get any deals on a few drowned motorcycles for sale cheap in a bit from that flood up North of you.

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks guys, I'd like to go back to the 1980's when I could buy CB750's and Z1's for pennies, then buy as many as I could and store them somewhere safe, and I'd be a wealthy man now. Of course, the "Butterfly Effect" might turn that dream into a nightmare, damn it. The floods up north (nowhere near me) are devastating, whole towns under water.

It's sadly ironic that this time last year we were still mopping up the massive bushfires that decimated whole communities right along the Eastern Seaboard, and now it's under water. Hopefully we won't get any of that volume of rain down here, 2020 sucked with bushfires and Covid-19 lockdowns, I'd really like just one trouble free year this year so I can get on with bike fixing and riding.

I also want 2021' to be excellent for myself and have new opportunities to improve my circumstances and enjoy My life.Terry,you might see if you can get any deals on a few drowned motorcycles for sale cheap from that flood up North of you in a bit.

Yeah mate, all the best with your year. I almost bought a Harley that had been drowned in a flood a couple of years ago, it looked mint on the outside but the seller (who'd bought it at an insurance auction) couldn't guarantee that the engine wasn't full of water, and as the flood had happened several weeks prior, I could just imagine how rusty and horrible it might be inside, so I decided against it. If it was a nice CB750 that had been underwater I wouldn't have been as worried, as I have enough parts here to build several engines if I need to.

[grcamna2]

Thanks guys, I'd like to go back to the 1980's when I could buy CB750's and Z1's for pennies, then buy as many as I could and store them somewhere safe, and I'd be a wealthy man now. Of course, the "Butterfly Effect" might turn that dream into a nightmare, damn it. The floods up north (nowhere near me) are devastating, whole towns under water.

It's sadly ironic that this time last year we were still mopping up the massive bushfires that decimated whole communities right along the Eastern Seaboard, and now it's under water. Hopefully we won't get any of that volume of rain down here, 2020 sucked with bushfires and Covid-19 lockdowns, I'd really like just one trouble free year this year so I can get on with bike fixing and riding.

I also want 2021' to be excellent for myself and have new opportunities to improve my circumstances and enjoy My life.Terry,you might see if you can get any deals on a few drowned motorcycles for sale cheap from that flood up North of you in a bit.

Yeah mate, all the best with your year. I almost bought a Harley that had been drowned in a flood a couple of years ago, it looked mint on the outside but the seller (who'd bought it at an insurance auction) couldn't guarantee that the engine wasn't full of water, and as the flood had happened several weeks prior, I could just imagine how rusty and horrible it might be inside, so I decided against it. If it was a nice CB750 that had been underwater I wouldn't have been as worried, as I have enough parts here to build several engines if I need to.

Yes,if it was a sohc4 CB750 I know you would have seriously considered buying it to restore.

[PeWe]

A CB750 is a time machine.
Old memories from 40 years ago and more reminds me at most ride.
People that comment my bike has often memories they talk about from the 70"s. Friends or their own bikes.

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, I often feel sorry for the guys my age who look wistfully at my bike and say, “I had one just like it”, and that’s probably why nice clean ones are selling for big bucks nowadays, the poor buggers think that buying a 1970 CB750 will return their youth.

I’m lucky, I’ve never gone longer than a year without a bike, and have had more CB750’s than anyone else I know, apart from Eric.

[PeWe]

I have had my K6 since a cold winter day in January 1979 when I reserved the bike with a first payment. Fetched it 4 months later. License another month later.

I had a period when not riding the bike or any bikes either. 1991- 2013. Hired a small bike on holiday in Thailand -91 and test rode a bike a friend purchased 1997.
My bike quickly felt as it did in the 80's once I gave it an OK handlebar.

[Terry in Australia]

I don’t know how you were able to go from 1991 to 2013 without a bike Per? (Well, one that you actually rode) that would have killed me, even the one year I didn’t have a bike, J rode my mate’s Harley Sportster and loved it, so bought one as soon as I could raise the dough. No wag could I go 22 years witha bike, that must have been soul destroying?

[onepieceatatime]

I went from 1999 to 2015 without riding one too. I had one that was a project, but as an enlisted man in the US Army, with a wife and kid, couldn't afford the parts to fix it up. If the wife would have been a bit more thrifty, I probably could have done it. She liked motorcycles, but soon as I had finished fixing it up she insisted that it was time for me to sell it. I held my tongue instead of telling her the words in my head "I've had the bike longer than you". It seemed better at the time to just let it sit in the garage until my stepson was 18, instead of argue about it with her. Eventually I decided that it was time to get more bikes and start riding again whatever her opinion.

[Jimcg]

The floods up north (nowhere near me) are devastating, whole towns under water.

It's sadly ironic that this time last year we were still mopping up the massive bushfires that decimated whole communities right along the Eastern Seaboard, and now it's under water. Hopefully we won't get any of that volume of rain down here, 2020 sucked with bushfires and Covid-19 lockdowns, I'd really like just one trouble free year this year so I can get on with bike fixing and riding.

Good to hear! I just couldn't visualize how you would get all your bikes up high enough to avoid dissappering under water.

/Jim

[Terry in Australia]

I went from 1999 to 2015 without riding one too. I had one that was a project, but as an enlisted man in the US Army, with a wife and kid, couldn't afford the parts to fix it up. If the wife would have been a bit more thrifty, I probably could have done it. She liked motorcycles, but soon as I had finished fixing it up she insisted that it was time for me to sell it. I held my tongue instead of telling her the words in my head "I've had the bike longer than you". It seemed better at the time to just let it sit in the garage until my stepson was 18, instead of argue about it with her. Eventually I decided that it was time to get more bikes and start riding again whatever her opinion.

Yeah mate, been there, done that. I was lucky that I could have a part time job "after hours" so did security work, personal protection for one of Australia's billionaires, and working at a gas station. I was very fit then, even though I smoked 70 cigarettes a day, on average. We were a "single income"  family and Army pay was sh1t, so if I didn't work 18 hours a day, I would have been bike-less. I chose having a bike.

[onepieceatatime]

I went from 1999 to 2015 without riding one too. I had one that was a project, but as an enlisted man in the US Army, with a wife and kid, couldn't afford the parts to fix it up. If the wife would have been a bit more thrifty, I probably could have done it. She liked motorcycles, but soon as I had finished fixing it up she insisted that it was time for me to sell it. I held my tongue instead of telling her the words in my head "I've had the bike longer than you". It seemed better at the time to just let it sit in the garage until my stepson was 18, instead of argue about it with her. Eventually I decided that it was time to get more bikes and start riding again whatever her opinion.

Yeah mate, been there, done that. I was lucky that I could have a part time job "after hours" so did security work, personal protection for one of Australia's billionaires, and working at a gas station. I was very fit then, even though I smoked 70 cigarettes a day, on average. We were a "single income"  family and Army pay was sh1t, so if I didn't work 18 hours a day, I would have been bike-less. I chose having a bike.

Glad you were able to find a way to make it work!
We were a single income family too, but the Army kept me busy 14 hours a day, 5 days a week. I didn't know any rich folks looking for protection either.   

[Terry in Australia]

I went from 1999 to 2015 without riding one too. I had one that was a project, but as an enlisted man in the US Army, with a wife and kid, couldn't afford the parts to fix it up. If the wife would have been a bit more thrifty, I probably could have done it. She liked motorcycles, but soon as I had finished fixing it up she insisted that it was time for me to sell it. I held my tongue instead of telling her the words in my head "I've had the bike longer than you". It seemed better at the time to just let it sit in the garage until my stepson was 18, instead of argue about it with her. Eventually I decided that it was time to get more bikes and start riding again whatever her opinion.

Yeah mate, been there, done that. I was lucky that I could have a part time job "after hours" so did security work, personal protection for one of Australia's billionaires, and working at a gas station. I was very fit then, even though I smoked 70 cigarettes a day, on average. We were a "single income"  family and Army pay was sh1t, so if I didn't work 18 hours a day, I would have been bike-less. I chose having a bike.

Glad you were able to find a way to make it work!
We were a single income family too, but the Army kept me busy 14 hours a day, 5 days a week. I didn't know any rich folks looking for protection either.   

Ha ha, I was working for a useless security company, but got a job working for Lindsay Fox, owner of "LINFOX" Transport, who'd just been robbed (inside job) and he liked me so much I worked for him for a few weeks, and he offered me a full time job at twice my Army salary, but I wanted my army pension, so stayed in. I met up with him years later, and he still remembered me. He was a crook (like any self made billionaire) but was always good to me.

[Trevor from Warragul]

I've had a motorcycle to ride since I was 19. From double income & lots of spare cash to single income, 3 kids & skint. I think the single biggest thing that assisted ownership was learning how to fix them myself.

[PeWe]

Modifications drained the wallet back in the days as today
This forum no help either to keep costs down. So much inspiration to restore and modify.
Upon that find more parts to build another bike or more ; D

A good thing today, really cheap insurance and no more vehicle inspections to worry about.

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, yep, when I bought my first Harley I was 27, and the insurance premium was 10% of the market value per year ($650) which I couldn't afford in a lump son, so I had to pay $65 per month, which after only 10 months I could no longer afford, so I had to sell it. Nowadays it costs me $65 per year to insure my CB750K0 for $20K?

What makes me laugh is that statistically, there are more 50+ guys killing themselves on bikes than 27 year olds. Guys who haven't ridden for 20-30 years and don't realise how the world has changed, how many more vehicles are on the road, and how unforgiving it can be trying to re-teach yourself long forgotten skills. There are just as many wrecked Harleys at the insurance auctions as there are sportsbikes. Sometimes trying to relive your halcyon days can be fatal.

[PeWe]

Many old guys killed here since they got license for bike for free with licence for car. That ended 1976.
Even my old mother had license to ride any bike when 80+

Those guys bought Harleys and similar and rided as it was a car. Often too slow ending up in bad situations.

No training at all and no earlier riding with experienced bikers telling them all risks with slippery roads (what cause it) and a must to read the traffic and idiot car drivers in time that suddenly change lane, not stop in crossings for a small #$%*ty bike!

When riding in the dark, be prepared for idiot car drivers that use Hi headlight, not switch to Lo for a bike.

A bike must be ridden actively and slightly faster than the cars.
If not, cars will push you off the road, just a matter of time. A Spas 12 is needed otherwise!!

[Terry in Australia]

I had to laugh recently, a guy in his 60’s bought a nicely restored CB750 after 40 years without a bike. He put new tyres on it, and on his first ride, dropped the bike in a corner. Even though the bike shop had told him to be careful to “scrub” the new tyres in, he tried to blame them somehow for his coming off? I mean, what more could the bike shop do, ride the bike for him?

Some folks should stick to driving cars.......

[PeWe]

It takes time to get the feeling back, especially cornering.

But how can knowledge about loosing grip totally just vanish from the brain?
He did not read the surface. Sand, oil, diesel from a truck...

Normal is to ride too slow and careful after a riding pause.

[RAFster122s]

Terry, it is likely most drivers do not have a clue how squirrely their auto tires are when a new set is put on. They slip in corners quite a bit. It pisses me off when tire techs are too lazy to peel off the tire labels on auto tires. Seen it a time or two
Most people's car has such numb handling or numb driving experience and their seats and car suspension dumbs down the handling so much they do not detect when the tires are slipping a bit. Heck, most drivers could not begin to tell you how badly their car understeers and they could not tell you what it means much less what oversteer and understeer mean.
So, the fact a new rider, that's really what you are after even a year break. Doesn't feel it or understand it and gets inover his head and washes out and has a low side crash/wreck.

You can clean safely grease and other residue off a new timing belt or other belt with brake cleaner.  I bet you can clean off any residue off tires with brake cleaner sprayed on a clean dye free shop rag too. Then the mold release is not an issue. Then you just need to wear through the molded outer skin of a rubber tire. This is part of what makes the tires needing the "scrub in" a shop references.

I find it amazing shops are able to throw a new set of brake pads on a car and then just drive it one to two miles and give it back to a customer. Breaking in and bedding in a set of pads cannot be done safely in a city as you cannot heat cycle and do the progressive stops from the various speeds needed.
I guess brakes have come a long way, but it is always a good odea to try to bed in a set of pads before applying the brakes heavily and repeatedly.
You glaze the pads and rotors and you are a danger to yourself and others.

[PeWe]

Tire lube a must to remove. As chain lube overspray.

[Terry in Australia]

It takes time to get the feeling back, especially cornering.

But how can knowledge about loosing grip totally just vanish from the brain?
He did not read the surface. Sand, oil, diesel from a truck...

Normal is to ride too slow and careful after a riding pause.

Yeah, and the thing was, there were several reasons that he could have dropped the bike (country road, sand and gravel in corners, blah blah blah) but he was talking sh1t about it was the dealer's "Duty of Care", what a load of crap. I hope he got his insurance payout and he's gone back to driving cars............

[Terry in Australia]

The shops I buy my tires from use Acetone on a rag to wipe off any lube/shine before I go back out on the road, but still warn me about taking it easy for the first 50 miles or so, I've never bought a bike tyre that a dealer has left the sticker on, that's just dumb.

[RAFster122s]

Had a tire shop do it , leave a sticker on a tire, to me once in Ohio on one of my cars.
MC dealer would never do it. Car shop and I exchanged words over it when I found it arriving hope.
I often would apple a tire sticker to a sheet of paper or to the trunk lid of the car. Then I had the abbreviated manufacturer info on the tire they publish at the time of making the tire.

Yes, Acetone will do it nicely too...just use a double layer of nitrile gloves doing this yourself. Acetone is really unhealthy and absorbs through the skin.

[Terry in Australia]

So I shouldn’t be bathing in acetone David? I’m way too tough for just soap and water! Actually I didn’t know how dangerous the stuff is and have never used gloves when using it, but I’m so full of chemicals anyway, it probably won’t make much difference.......

[PeWe]

I use acetone very often!
When cleaning threads before loctite and sticky dirt.

This is what nail polish remover contains plus oil.

My dry hands gets usually some good motor oil shorty after.

Skin feels very good after a good quality syntethic!