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How clean is your machine?

craz1's 1974 CB550
11 (26.2%)
Don R's sparkling 1969 CB750K0 The Nugget (Mold to Gold)
31 (73.8%)

Total Members Voted: 41

Voting closed: January 31, 2022, 10:53:32 PM

Author Topic: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022  (Read 1715 times)

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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)

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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: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2022, 04:48:02 PM »
  Build pics. When I found it, it was a different kind of nugget. L0L! My favorite part is the Schwinn handgrip for a footpeg.

  https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPN8ux_3WjDxGPJGXwyDrIsu2WL6BeOqmykg28AAmTYjyhrAsi3IvlKVyCDyaVz-g?key=TXQ4dTJNSUNLd0Z3c08xZ2tWRG8wWlN0U21MNjJn
« Last Edit: January 25, 2022, 09:35:35 AM by Don R »
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2022, 09:56:39 AM »
Both great looking bikes.  Voted
'74 "Big Bang" Honda 750K [836].....'76 Honda 550F.....K3 Park Racer!......and a Bomber!............plus plus plus.........

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2022, 11:54:19 AM »
 When I was a kid, we had a car that was a similar color to the 550. I'm thinking it was a 62 Buick LeSabre, I never knew what to say when someone asked what color it was. My wife and I see greens and grays differently, maybe that has something to do with it. Anyway, I love that color.
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2022, 12:05:25 AM »
Well-deserved congratulations to Don on his Gold Nugget build!
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 February 2022
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2022, 02:51:35 AM »
congratulations don!
both are nice bikes. but if there's a build thread with more info on what was done, and the owner even posts on the voting thread with more detail... my vote can easily be influenced  8)

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2022, 05:28:19 AM »
Congrats Don!  Great looking bike.
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2022, 07:10:11 AM »
Congrats to Don...
'74 "Big Bang" Honda 750K [836].....'76 Honda 550F.....K3 Park Racer!......and a Bomber!............plus plus plus.........

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2022, 09:17:47 AM »
 Thank you all, and nice bike to Craz1. I'd be proud to have one that nice.
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2022, 10:45:50 AM »
Congratulations Don, both nice bikes.
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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month February 2022
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2022, 05:50:04 PM »
nice bikes!
73/74'' CB500/550 resto-mod - sold
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