Topic: hi at all from Italy...

[pedro750]

G day (or night) at all!
I'm Pedro, I'm from Italy and I love SOCH4...
From when I was born I had a 750 K1 in garage (from my father) and when I was 12 I started to drive it. Now I'm 29 and dosn't finish to drive, tune, love MY 750.
All I've done on my bike I've done by myself (good and bad upgrades...), I worked in all the parts of this bike, and every time it's like the first: fantstic!
Here you are some pics:

[Glenn Stauffer]

Very nice bike and cool photos.  Love the track action.  We don't hear from SOHC/4 owners in Italy all that often.  Do you see many SOHC/4 bikes in your area?  Any Honda clubs in Italy that we should know about?

[BobbyR]

Nice Bike and and a welcome from New York.

[Bowswell]

Hi i was there last 2 week in Toscana and i take a picture of CB 1000four Japmoto edition.

[Ecosse]

Please allow me to welcome you as well. Nice to see a SOHC knee scraper!

Love to have tech details about your racer. Custom header? Swing arm? Rearsets?

I always like hearing about machines that stay in the family too.

[velociraptor]

G,day Pedro, that's a great looking ride and an excelant inheritance.  Rossi V Stoner at Phillip Island this weekend, I hope Stoner stays shiny side up. Should be a great race.      cheers  Mat.

[johnny_from_bel]

Ciao Pedro dall'Italia.
Benvenuto.

Buon vedere un altro Europeo qui. L'italiano è la mia quinta lingua. Ho bisogno di una certa pratica.

Johnny dal Belgico

[FunJimmy]

Pedro

Welcome aboard.
I recently returned from vacation in Northern Italy.
A small and quaint village of Gavi, just north of Genova.
Awesome time in your country.

Great photos!

FunJimmy

[Buber]

Very nice bike and cool photos.  Love the track action.  We don't hear from SOHC/4 owners in Italy all that often.  Do you see many SOHC/4 bikes in your area?  Any Honda clubs in Italy that we should know about?

Ahem, I believe that's the one of the more active SOHC's European communities, except maybe UK..
http://www.honda4fun.com/
I think it's the biggest European SOHC meet. Annually in May. But i'm tight on budget for next year.. shame...

[andy750]

Welcome Pedro from Boston, USA!

Great photos and love the white exhaust on the bike- very nice!

cheers
Andy

[dusterdude]

welcome

[pedro750]

@dusterdude: thanks.

@andy750: thanks, now I'm working on another exaust, I've to change the end's position, skratch too much... But it will by with too...

@Buber: BINGO! I'm from H4Fun and I'm one of the most oldiest of this comunity (not for the age...  ). I think too that our meeting it's the bigest in europe for SOCH Honda's bike (200 or more parked SOCH it's fantastic to see), and we are waiting for you!

@FunJimmy: thanks to you. Unfortunatly Italy is for holiday me too... I work at foreign.

@johnny_from_bel: Grazie e coplimenti per il tuo italiano, vorrei parlare l'inglese come tu parli l'italiano... 

@velociraptor: thanks, we'ill see at Philip Island what's hapen, but certanly it will be a great race!

@Ecosse: you have seen olready some particulars...  , so my byke is'nt a racer, it's a touring-cafè-garage-happy-funny-racer. I worked on suspensions (front s. worked in and other..., rear shocks are from cb900, very good), swing harm is an aftermarket prodoct from '70 (probably from Segale but I'm not sure), rear footpegs from Menani, hendelbars and trottle from Tomaselli, master cylinder is a radial pump 19X21, rear seats change with the needs: for seangle - race's seat's in fiberglas and arrive from '70 racers (triumph Trident T150), for seangle-touring is a Giuliari's similar but more confortable, for double-touring original seat. About the engine, now it's working at 915 cc (67.5 mm ABE's pisotns), easly ported head with APE titanium retainers and springs, CRC (from Italy) head camshaft, Dyna S with green coils (3 Ohm) and carbon cables (next step NGK racing cables), iridium Ngk sparkplugs, machined alternator (-1,8 kg), APE extra-plate clutch kit and springs and a lot of test about carburators (next step I whant to try cycleX double carburator kit, it'a very intrasting and I whant to try it with dell'ortos with power jet...) and a lot of exaustes, from the originals to every type of free 4 in 1 (I love it). But nothing of this's definitiv, my bike it's every time in working progres (...or regress...).

@bowswell : did you like Toscana? About Japaouto, a little bit used... 

@BobbyR : Thanks.

@Glenn Stauffer: Thanks, I love track action too, it's wonderfool run with modern bikes and... About SOHC/4 owners in Italy take a look here 

P.s. at all: please, sorry for my english...

[Ecosse]

That's some list! Some on this forum inquired about the twin carburetors from Cycle X but I believe there is a potential issue with frame clearance with stock frames. I don't know first hand though but I do hear the guy from Cycle X is a helpful person.

I like the white exhaust too; reminds me of the hot rods from the 1950's and 60's here in the 'States.

Cool touring-cafe-garage-happy-funny-racer. Whatever you call it... it's sweet. 

BTW: Your English is far better than my Italian!

[BobbyR]

Pedro, thanks for the link. We were aware of that site because it had download manuals. The Italian language ended in my family with my mother's generation. In the US the original family language usually disappears by the 3rd generation. You should invite more Italian riders to join us if you can. Where in Italia are you from?
   

[pedro750]

Here you can herd my "750":

and here you can see some our meetings:

[Ecosse]

I think about a year ago I commented on a You Tube post of yours showing one of those meetings.

If I recall you commented back... that's all I remember but as they say, it's a small world!

Anyway, thanks for the clips.

Speaking of Italians and SOHC's...

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=34153.msg352551#msg352551

[andy750]

Excellent videos and love the music!! (especially liked the second vid...very good editing and music!).

Where are you located in Italy? In 2003 I rode around Europe from the UK on my 1974 CB750 and passed through the Dolomites and the Passo dello Stelvio ((pics below)). In other trips been to Venice/Milan/Pavia/Florence/Tuscany/Chianti region  -great roads!! You guys are really lucky - not to mention the stylish women!





Any more close up shots of your tomesselli handlebars? I am wondering if they are like mine?

Thanks!

Andy

[pedro750]

@ Ecosse: diuring '70 Italy done a lot of films with Honda's and tits, very good, no?
so now in our Hondas four comunity we have Mr. Mastrone that redo something that (unfortunatly without tits...):

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=-yO2iqYdWM4

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJTVIDG8d4&feature=related

@andy750: Passo dello Stelvio is one of the most hardly streets in North Italy, and every year ther's one of the most bigest Italian bikemeeting, I did thisone a lot of time with my Honda and i Know very well that street-zone.
I'm from Brescia (North Italy) but with my bike I was in all zones that you vsited.

[andy750]

Wow!!!!! That last video with the "chase" scenes was amazing!! Really that has to be one of the best 750 videos Ive seen. Who is the guy riding the CB750? Amazing talent and was laughing at the stair scene, the tach bouncing up to red line and the skids on the narrow cobbled streets! Great stuff! And the editing was again, very very good.

These are great videos Pedro and thanks for posting! We passed through Trento and Tirano which I see are on your doorstep! You lucky, lucky guy!!


cheers
Andy

P.S. Have you met Axl (Satanic Mechanic) from Munich? I know he has been over to the Italian Honda rallys.

[Ecosse]

'Wow' is right!!! I loved that last one Pedro and I'd agree that's got to be one of the best 750 (or SOHC) videos! Man that was fun and also liking cats I see Italy has plenty. I have a friend from Greece and she says they're all over there too.

You should post the videos in the movie section so more of us can see them... just great.


Thanks!

Andy, those are breathtaking shot man! That's it I'm moving to Italy! Old CB's, the women, the food, the art, they drive on the correct side of the road...

[pedro750]

@ andy750: near Trento ther's a lot of famous strret-race like Trento-Bondone Hill climbing race, Levico -Treviolo Hill climbing race, il Costo, all strets are with "racing" asphalt and it's very good open the gas there...
At Tirano start another fantstic street: Passo del Bernina, that arrive at Sankt Moritz (swiss).
I've sow Axl 2 metting ago (a fantastic person), every time some peaple from Germany- Holland- England arrive to Italy for our meeting.

@Ecosse: why don't you organize your arrive in Italy when we organize our meeting? It'will be a great idea I think, I think that we can organize something that Honda4fun-Soch4 meeting 

[78 k550]

Welcome,
Love the bike and the pics.

Paul