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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9775 on: May 07, 2014, 02:43:22 PM »
Wow, a Christmas tree chopper! With lights, no less!  :o  Good thing it's a DOHC...

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9776 on: May 07, 2014, 03:03:12 PM »
What'da yha know... I JUST posted that same bike in the abomination thread.  = ]

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9777 on: May 07, 2014, 03:33:03 PM »


There's a fair amount of flex in that front end.  Jeez!

A LOT of time and effort invested, but I agree -- abomination!
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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9778 on: May 07, 2014, 03:58:34 PM »
The heat from the exhaust will keep your legs nice and warm! Still a really cool theme built bike. Its not very practical or safe but very eye catching and different.
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9779 on: May 07, 2014, 04:06:07 PM »
The heat from the exhaust will keep your legs nice and warm! Still a really cool theme built bike. Its not very practical or safe but very eye catching and different.

Yeah.  Not safe, at all.  Lots of glass right next to you and straight, short pipes blaring hot exhaust on your legs and into your ears. 

No, thank you!  Just as silly as the OCC raindeer bike.  This bike is a Christmas ornament, and that's about it.
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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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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9780 on: May 07, 2014, 08:31:28 PM »
Run up the back of a car and you can go home and show the wife your nice new glass balls.... :o
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« Reply #9781 on: May 07, 2014, 09:55:31 PM »
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9782 on: May 07, 2014, 10:48:13 PM »
No front brake, because if it did have one the front end would probably fold in half under hard braking.  I bet it has a drum rear, too.  This took some time, effort and $ but what a mess.
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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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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: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9783 on: May 08, 2014, 06:51:32 AM »
SOooo.... To get back on track:   CB 750 K2 photo from 1987.


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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9784 on: May 09, 2014, 04:32:20 AM »
just to give the choppers some love too ... they're not all christmas tree bikes lol


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« Reply #9785 on: May 09, 2014, 05:28:50 AM »
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9786 on: May 09, 2014, 09:43:49 AM »
just to give the choppers some love too ... they're not all christmas tree bikes lol


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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9787 on: May 09, 2014, 09:47:47 AM »
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9788 on: May 09, 2014, 10:44:44 AM »
just to give the choppers some love too ... they're not all christmas tree bikes lol



Uh oh, that verges on Steampunk, you risk pissing Terry off posting that. :)
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9789 on: May 10, 2014, 04:41:57 PM »
The newest Deus bike -- the Boodaak -- built by Woolie.  It looks and SOUNDS great:

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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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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9790 on: May 12, 2014, 04:36:29 PM »
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: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9792 on: May 13, 2014, 12:10:34 AM »
just to give the choppers some love too ... they're not all christmas tree bikes lol



Uh oh, that verges on Steampunk, you risk pissing Terry off posting that. :)

Haha! That bike is awesome though. But best don't label it, you'll cause all kinds of strife...

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« Reply #9793 on: May 20, 2014, 06:45:23 PM »
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9794 on: May 22, 2014, 12:55:40 PM »
When I first looked at it, it seemed awesome. But the longer I looked the more things I found wrong with it.

Cheap piggyback shocks, that exhaust looks unsupported at the rear, rearsets mounted on the passenger peg mounts, pods, and it looks like that front fender is going to bash into the headlight bucket the first bump it sees, unless the travel is limited or the bike is lowered or both, then it just won't ride right.

love the wheels though. ;)

Too much style and not enough substance.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for art for the sake of art, just don't bother putting a motor in it if it isn't meant to be ridden.

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9795 on: May 22, 2014, 03:48:07 PM »
Nice paint though. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9796 on: May 22, 2014, 03:53:38 PM »
When I first looked at it, it seemed awesome. But the longer I looked the more things I found wrong with it.

Cheap piggyback shocks, that exhaust looks unsupported at the rear, rearsets mounted on the passenger peg mounts, pods, and it looks like that front fender is going to bash into the headlight bucket the first bump it sees, unless the travel is limited or the bike is lowered or both, then it just won't ride right.

love the wheels though. ;)

Too much style and not enough substance.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for art for the sake of art, just don't bother putting a motor in it if it isn't meant to be ridden.

I'm curious as to why you take issue with the rearsets being mounted to the passenger peg mounts?  I believe that several of the Tarozzi are designed that way.  Assuming the passenger peg mounts are robust enough, what is the issue??
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: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9797 on: May 22, 2014, 04:18:11 PM »
When I first looked at it, it seemed awesome. But the longer I looked the more things I found wrong with it.

Cheap piggyback shocks, that exhaust looks unsupported at the rear, rearsets mounted on the passenger peg mounts, pods, and it looks like that front fender is going to bash into the headlight bucket the first bump it sees, unless the travel is limited or the bike is lowered or both, then it just won't ride right.

love the wheels though. ;)

Too much style and not enough substance.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for art for the sake of art, just don't bother putting a motor in it if it isn't meant to be ridden.

I'm curious as to why you take issue with the rearsets being mounted to the passenger peg mounts?  I believe that several of the Tarozzi are designed that way.  Assuming the passenger peg mounts are robust enough, what is the issue??

Way too far back and uncomfortable....
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9798 on: May 22, 2014, 05:32:46 PM »
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9799 on: May 23, 2014, 08:36:48 AM »
When I first looked at it, it seemed awesome. But the longer I looked the more things I found wrong with it.

Cheap piggyback shocks, that exhaust looks unsupported at the rear, rearsets mounted on the passenger peg mounts, pods, and it looks like that front fender is going to bash into the headlight bucket the first bump it sees, unless the travel is limited or the bike is lowered or both, then it just won't ride right.

love the wheels though. ;)

Too much style and not enough substance.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for art for the sake of art, just don't bother putting a motor in it if it isn't meant to be ridden.

I'm curious as to why you take issue with the rearsets being mounted to the passenger peg mounts?  I believe that several of the Tarozzi are designed that way.  Assuming the passenger peg mounts are robust enough, what is the issue??

Way too far back and uncomfortable....

What he said.   ;)