Author Topic: Registry of 750 Owners  (Read 153410 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline luvmy71

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 68
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #525 on: June 10, 2016, 08:03:37 am »
'71 K1, 76k.  Fresh top end.  Spent the last year sorting out all the little issues.  Now enjoying being able to ride worry free.

« Last Edit: June 10, 2016, 10:31:05 am by luvmy71 »
CB750 K1
'74 CB550 Cafe Project

Online CycleRanger

  • No comment about being an
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,189
  • Central Texas Shop Manual Advocate
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #526 on: June 10, 2016, 11:23:08 am »
'71 K1, 76k.  Fresh top end.  Spent the last year sorting out all the little issues.  Now enjoying being able to ride worry free.
Nice looking bike! Looks well sorted!  :)
Do you have a copy of the Honda Shop Manual for your bike? Get one here:
https://www.honda4fun.com/materiale/documentazione-tecnica
CB750K5        '79 XL250s     CL350K3
CB750K3        '76 XS650      '76 CJ360T

Offline Sigop

  • Hot Shot
  • ***
  • Posts: 332
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #527 on: September 03, 2016, 06:46:12 am »
New Old.  Original purchase 1973 CB750.  Except for pipes and grab bar, still all original.  Restoring carbs and airbox now to get her running again. Will be registered in NC.  8)
CB750 K3  Original Owner and Operator

Offline Jarrett_Honda

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 148
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #528 on: April 02, 2017, 01:34:32 pm »
My 75' CB750K5 arrived today.

Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk


Offline knottedknickers

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 214
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #529 on: April 03, 2017, 06:57:03 am »
Welcome, Jarrett_Honda. :) That is a swell looking ride! It doesn't even look like you have to visit the "Project Shop" or the "Proven Tricks & Tips / How To's [sic]" segments of the site. ::) Enjoy!
CB750 K6 http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=141388.0

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data" (Borgmann 2002:5).

Offline KCSOHC

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 12
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #530 on: June 11, 2017, 08:19:33 pm »
Hello from Kansas City,

This is my CB750 K2.  Built 7/72 but titled as a 73'. Frame CB750-2055319, Engine CB750E-20663234. I think I read somewhere that back in the day before standardized VIN #'s bikes were titled when sold rather than when built. Anyhoo here is how she sits today. Still needs some love but getting there. 

Offline RandomOrbit

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 208
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #531 on: September 29, 2017, 09:09:15 am »
Greetings! Allow me to introduce you all to Red Peg. I've had her about 26 years now. Bought when I was 20 from a boss who was going through a divorce and thought it might look bad to have 2 motorcycles. He was the second owner so I'm the third. This was my first bike, and it's been on the road almost every year since I got it. I've had a couple other bikes in that time, but this one has pretty much always been "my bike". I'd like something more modern too, but I can't imagine getting rid of Red Peg. She's got about 62K on the clock now. During those lean college years and when my kids were little I kept it running with the help of a Clymer manual and a parts bike I got in a trade. Over those years I've done almost all the work myself, so anything that's FUed about it is all on me.

I didn't manage to get it out of storage at all last year, so this year I made sure to get it out as soon as the snow was good and gone, and I've been working on it all summer slowly chipping away at the years of accumulated mechanical issues. At this point I'm ready to move on to the cosmetics. Of course it's a 40+ year old bike so it's always gonna need something, but at this point Red Peg is humming pretty good.



CB750k6 owned since 1991

Offline Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er

  • This MuthaF'er is getting to be a
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 14,790
  • Bought her new 4/75
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #532 on: September 29, 2017, 11:49:21 am »
Great story on Red Peg. Many of us have held on to our bikes through good and bad. Therapy &/or paid for. LOL.

What mini fairing is that? Nice addition. 
As of today 3/13/2012 my original owner 75 CB750F has made it through 3 wives, er EX-wives. Free at last.  ;-)

Offline RandomOrbit

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 208
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #533 on: September 29, 2017, 11:55:42 am »
Great story on Red Peg. Many of us have held on to our bikes through good and bad. Therapy &/or paid for. LOL.

What mini fairing is that? Nice addition.

Thanks. It's a Rifle Nightflight fairing I put on there sometime around 2000.
CB750k6 owned since 1991

Offline jrc54

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #534 on: January 17, 2018, 09:16:50 pm »
Look what my daughter dragged home


Offline Stev-o

  • Ain't no
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 33,694
  • Central Texas
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #535 on: January 19, 2018, 07:55:15 am »
Look what my daughter dragged home



Am I missing something?!
'74 "Big Bang" Honda 750K [836].....'71 Honda 750K project.....'76 Honda 550F.....K3 Park Racer!......and a Bomber!............plus plus plus.........

Offline FuZZie

  • Expert
  • ****
  • Posts: 1,222
  • If I is expert, I can has cheezburger?
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #536 on: January 19, 2018, 10:39:31 am »
Look what my daughter dragged home



Am I missing something?!

I'd bet if it's not a bike, it's getting #$%*slapped..... ;)

Offline OldSchool_IsCool

  • Really feeling like an
  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,350
  • WARNING: Objects in mirror appear to be LOSING!
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #537 on: January 19, 2018, 01:02:47 pm »
Or maybe itz one of them there Roosky botz!
Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?
If you take care of it.
What do you have to do?
Lot’s of things. You’ve been watching me.
Will you show me all of them?
Sure.
Is it hard?
Not if you have the right attitudes. It’s having the right attitudes that’s hard.

Offline WhyNot2

  • I'm finally an
  • Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,824
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #538 on: January 19, 2018, 04:25:21 pm »
Look what my daughter dragged home



Cool...........want to sell it.........???
If it ain't raining, I'm riding.....~~{iii}?~~prost

If it sounds like I know what I'm talking about, it's because I cut and pasted from someone else.

Offline Dr_Ingelbert

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #539 on: November 07, 2018, 11:08:10 am »
Hey

Joined the forum today so here is my 77' F2. Originally a US but imported to the UK and restored.

Previous owner said the bike had no issues, unfortunately he was not truthful. The bike had 80% of nuts and bolts finger tight, hole in the engine casing, worn cam tensioners, incorrect needle heights as well as different needles and the paint job turned to glue if it came into contact with petrol.

 


Offline Kramer5150

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #540 on: November 24, 2018, 09:30:54 pm »
Hi guys,

Just joined the forum, had my K4 US import for about 3 weeks now, located in Adelaide, South Australia.

Offline dmc8163

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 3
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #541 on: January 10, 2019, 08:49:50 am »
Recently acquired this 1976 Honda CB750F.

Offline bek1966

  • Enthusiast
  • **
  • Posts: 116
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #542 on: February 13, 2019, 09:34:16 am »
Just stumbled across this thread.  CB750 K1 - attempting to bring it back to road worthiness.





1971 CB750 K1 - Candy Gold
1971 CB500 K0 - Star Light Gold
1974 CB350 F1 - Glory Blue Black

Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

Offline Automark

  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6
  • 1975 CB750F Supersport
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #543 on: September 21, 2020, 02:18:34 pm »
My 1975 CB750F in Candy Sapphire Blue:
All together now..... Everybody.....

Offline newday777

  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,048
  • Avatar is my 76 K6 in Colorado w/Cody on back 1980
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #544 on: April 23, 2022, 09:25:10 pm »
Well it's been a couple years since anyone posted on this thread and I just looked and see I haven't posted my bikes on this registry.
My Planet Blue 1975 K5 I bought from a friend's estate in November 2018. He parked it properly in his heated basement in 2008, he kicked it over every year, gas emptied from the tank and carbs, tank and seat upstairs on a bed covered, so it was a fairly easy bring back to life, cleaned the carbs, flushed the brake fluid, changed the oil and filter, tires and tubes, good clean and wax.
I've known this bike since 1976 working together with the original owner at the Honda shop and I had an identical K5 that I bought new myself in 75(it had an early demise). I am the 3rd owner now. I took pictures of it in the early 80s when it was bought by another friend, the one who died in 2018. I got those pictures back with the bike.
It's been fun to get it back on the road and ride it again as the last time I rode it before buying it was in 1976 when I was parts manager and sold the Hooker Header, 10" bars and the engine guards to the original owner. The Invader Wheels were added in the 1980s by the second owner.
« Last Edit: April 23, 2022, 09:26:48 pm by newday777 »
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline newday777

  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,048
  • Avatar is my 76 K6 in Colorado w/Cody on back 1980
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #545 on: April 23, 2022, 09:41:23 pm »
In the summer of 1976 I lost my K5 when my ex cousin dumped it going into a ditch as I watched it hit the big rock and endo head over heels and back across the street as he didn't make the corner at 70mph.....
So I bought a 76 K6 to replace it. I kept that K6 until 1983, @ 45,000 miles, when my growing family had needs. Lots of great memories on it. My hound had 35,000 miles on it with me. 5 cross country trips together and lots of local riding. In 1977, I built the motor(actually the friend's out in the shop did the build) to an 811 Yoshimura kit, Action Fours cam and springs, 3 angle valve cuts, ported head and dual drilled discs.
Sure have missed that bike over the years......
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline newday777

  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,048
  • Avatar is my 76 K6 in Colorado w/Cody on back 1980
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #546 on: April 23, 2022, 10:08:34 pm »
When I bought my K6, my oldest brother wanted one after riding mine so I got to do the set up from the crate on it. He bought a Windjammer and Shoei bags and 10" bars that got installed too.
A year later he had to move to Chicago for his job and sold it to my dad. Dad rode it to work daily as well as took mom for rides on it until she got scared by someone while out for a ride. Dad sold it to another friend of mine who was looking for one and he rode it until@ 1988 when it puked oil on his dress trousers so he parked it. I stopped by his house in 2015 to visit him and his new wife mentioned he had a bike. I'd forgotten he'd bought it and when I asked him what he had, he said the 750 I sold him. "You mean my dad's bike?" Yep. Can I see it? Yup. Unfortunately mice had built a double decker condo under the carbs(the birthing chambers) and in the tool tray(the penthouse). The motor was stuck tight. I told Pete I can get it going again and he said if I can then I can have it. So it's been a stalled project since I tore it down for lack of funds to complete it.
The mice had gotten in the exhaust and peed in the two center cylinders and locked up the motor and peed all over the frame and RC exhaust.
I just picked up an 836 motor I'm about to open up to inspect it's internals and strip to bad paint job(red and black that are peeling and corroded), and paint it back to silver again, to get this project going again.
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline Scootch

  • Hot Shot
  • ***
  • Posts: 356
  • Someday I'll know what I needed to know years ago
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #547 on: May 07, 2022, 08:25:06 am »
Hi  I'm Mark. My board name is Scootch - which was my HS nickname...

Here are most of the high points… I had lusted after a CB750 for many years. I was 17 when they came out in '69. I owned a CL350 Scrambler at that time but was blown away with the enormity and the sound of the CB750. I have never forgotten that sound. 1970 was the year I graduated from HS. Thus the special significance of the '70 CB to me. This machine was located in Arizona and obtained from the son of the original owner with ~4300 miles on the clock. The gentleman that located it brought it back to Florida and performed a refurbishment on everything except the deep entrails of the motor. Some of the parts are original and have been re-chromed. Many parts are new old stock from Honda. The fenders are original  re-chromed. The painted parts were purchased as a set from Yamiya. The rims are new from DID. 98% of the hardware is new from Honda. Wiring harnesses are new. Seat is new. Pipes are HM300’s. Last fall I was in Florida and came across the gentleman that had it. At that point I couldn’t resist any longer and 52 years later I had my CB750. I have spent the past couple months getting acquainted with it and learning about it. I have had to troubleshoot and repair a couple things and I changed the front and rear sprockets. I learned how to sync the carbs. I am pretty familiar with the type of carbs bcz I’ve had other bikes with similar. I have been watching plenty of CB750 videos on YouTube. I hope I don’t get bit with something major in the motor but if need be I will rebuild it in my basement. I plan on riding it – and have been. It is not going to sit on display. It is a blast to ride and it causes a stir everywhere. I enjoy seeing the look on people’s faces – even on those people who are not necessarily cycle enthusiasts. People just seem to know that there is something special about the bike… and there is!!

Offline newday777

  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 4,048
  • Avatar is my 76 K6 in Colorado w/Cody on back 1980
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #548 on: May 07, 2022, 10:12:44 am »
A very good looking bike you have Scootch
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline Scootch

  • Hot Shot
  • ***
  • Posts: 356
  • Someday I'll know what I needed to know years ago
Re: Registry of 750 Owners
« Reply #549 on: May 07, 2022, 10:24:36 am »
A very good looking bike you have Scootch

Thank you Stu!  You have an impressive list of machine in your past and present. Lots of interesting memories there. I was hoping to see some pictures of your bikes. Blue is my favorite color and I see that you have several Planet Blue machines in your stable...