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Middleweight Custom Shootout

jimcg's 650
20 (60.6%)
tshrey's 1976 CB550K Cafe Restomod
13 (39.4%)

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Voting closed: July 31, 2021, 08:23:45 AM

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Offline SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan

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Vote for Bike of the Month August 2021
« on: July 16, 2021, 08:23:45 AM »
jimcg's 650
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,183848.msg2169351.html#msg2169351
Custom built seat and painted tank/wheels and rebuilt forks







tshrey's 1976 CB550K Cafe Restomod
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,162408.0.html
Frame off custom, frame mods (hoop, relocated shock mounts), custom seat and upholstery, completely rebuilt motor (592cc Dynoman high compression pistons, CBR600RR alternator machined and adapted, Mike Rieck/JMR Stage 2 ported head), GSX-R front and cognito-hubbed new front wheel, rebuilt rear wheel, CR26 carburetors (and custom intake manifolds to clear the frame), complete re-wire with Motogadget electronics and lithium-based battery, custom paint, etc.)


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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: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2021
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2021, 02:39:57 AM »
Congratulations JimCG.
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2021
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2021, 12:11:40 PM »
Congrats, Jim!
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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: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2021
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2021, 11:11:58 PM »
Quote from: Sam Green Racing on August 01, 2021, 02:39:57 AM
Congratulations JimCG.

Many thanks!!!



Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on August 01, 2021, 12:11:40 PM
Congrats, Jim!

Thanks a lot, this was very encouraging! I plan to keep the bike and hope I can continue to improve it (still no cutting), not to mention just taking care of it and hopefully spend many hours on the road.  :)

/Jim
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