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Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« on: January 20, 2021, 11:25:24 AM »
Hello all, figured I would start posting some pics of the new project.
1977 CB750, changing over to a monoshock and hopefully some high pipes.  Probably another slow build but hope it's of some interest!
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2021, 01:13:10 PM »
Your carbon fiber seats are great work on your bikes!
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2021, 01:15:39 PM »
Those gas tanks from the liquid cooled Thruxtons have great lines.  I think this is the first time I've seen one used on a Honda.
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: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2021, 01:25:01 PM »
Thanks Wolf, once I started doing carbon, it's tough to go back.

Racer Fan, the tank is from a Thruxton, used one on my last 550 build and really like them for a non "custom" tank


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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2021, 07:28:51 PM »
hey squirley going to go through your threads here but maybe you can tell me straight off what the rear on that 550 is from?
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2021, 08:12:35 PM »
Wolf, there's no build thread on the 550 above, just completed it a few months back.
Are you talking about the swingarm? If so, it is a stock 550 that I bent some tube for to create the monoshock attachment.  Can take some better pics if you'd like. Its the same thing I did for the 750 above too.

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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2021, 08:48:38 PM »
all the stuff that goes into that swingarm (hub, disk and caliper stuff)
I am going to be doing a front wheel hub in the back for the rear for (rear disk conversion) and getting ideas for the caliper stuff I will need to make it happen.
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2021, 09:49:06 PM »
those bikes look really great, wonderful lines.
73/74'' CB500/550 resto-mod - sold
75' 750f 91' cbr f2 swap cafe - mock up
74' 750 chopper hardtail - complete - sold
74' CB750/836kit - Black mix & match - daily rider - always tweaking
71' cb500 K0 survivor - complete
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2021, 10:07:16 PM »
Thanks Wolf, once I started doing carbon, it's tough to go back.

Racer Fan, the tank is from a Thruxton, used one on my last 550 build and really like them for a non "custom" tank



Ok Squirley,

That 550 build is something else.  Who's ready to second my nomination for BOTM: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180400.0.html
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: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2021, 07:46:06 PM »

Ok Squirley,

That 550 build is something else.  Who's ready to second my nomination for BOTM: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180400.0.html

Something else is right. Wow so clean, great lines!

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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2021, 09:07:23 PM »
did you bend the headers yourself on the 550?
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75' 750f 91' cbr f2 swap cafe - mock up
74' 750 chopper hardtail - complete - sold
74' CB750/836kit - Black mix & match - daily rider - always tweaking
71' cb500 K0 survivor - complete
71' K1 - CANDY GOLD/BROWN Winton kit - in process

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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2021, 01:52:14 PM »
Please accept the messy garage and bad pics.  Here's a few showing the progress on the frame change.  I always put in removable clamps to remove the head but on this one I also bent up some tube and replaced the factory frame upright into a more eye appeasing bend and tied it into the upper shock mount.
Also, made a little progress on the high pipes.  More of a mockup for now as I try and digest whether I like it or not...



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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2021, 04:23:23 PM »
i like that kind of exhaust
i saw something similar on Jwebsters CB550 and it looked so cool
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Re: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2021, 05:17:56 PM »
Great header and the frame mods are both beautiful and function-forward.
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: Squirley CB750 build: Another one!
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2021, 12:29:56 PM »
 Got'a say, Those Triumph tanks look right proper on both the 550 & 750...!