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Offline emlupi

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9725 on: June 04, 2024, 06:19:59 AM »
Out for a spin on a beautiful spring afternoon. Twin Lakes Park in Westchester, NY.

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9726 on: June 04, 2024, 09:19:42 AM »
Out for a spin on a beautiful spring afternoon. Twin Lakes Park in Westchester, NY.

Picture perfect bike and scenery  8) 8) 8)
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9727 on: June 05, 2024, 06:44:47 AM »
Out for a spin on a beautiful spring afternoon. Twin Lakes Park in Westchester, NY.

Beautiful bike and photo

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9728 on: June 05, 2024, 07:43:27 AM »
A few shots from the ride on the good old 750F yesterday -





You are closing up to 200.000 miles on that bike without major engine restore, right?
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Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9729 on: June 05, 2024, 08:11:46 AM »
Really?
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9730 on: June 05, 2024, 09:11:56 AM »
Really?

No, "only" 160,000[?] miles!! And for sale....
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9731 on: June 05, 2024, 10:23:21 AM »
CB750 K6-76  970cc (Earlier 1005cc JMR Billet block on the shelf waiting for a comeback)
CB750 K2-75 Parts assembled to a stock K2

Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9732 on: June 05, 2024, 12:57:08 PM »
Nice, long ride in the K1 today. Garry brought along his new Husky, and had no trouble keeping up!

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9733 on: June 05, 2024, 06:12:50 PM »
Nice rides and photos...we are such a visually stimulated lot ...
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9734 on: June 07, 2024, 09:44:37 AM »
You are closing up to 200.000 miles on that bike without major engine restore, right?
Really?
No, "only" 160,000[?] miles!! And for sale....

Hey PeWe, I doubt I'll get to 200,000, not because the bike won't do it, but because at the current mileage accumulation since I quit commuting on it I may not live long enough.

Stev-o is correct.  Sale price after the ride yesterday is $169,305.











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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9735 on: June 07, 2024, 11:38:35 AM »
What a ride with nice photos Greg!
Out into the wilderness on a CB750.
Your dog or one you met?

I remember160.000,  thought that was years ago.
Time is sometimes faster than our bikes without reverse except redoing rides on our old bikes as back in the older days.

Thought it should be >175.000.

169305 is even much for a car, 272470km.
Fantastic for the bores, rings, valves, guides and crank/rod bearings to last that long without heavy rattling, knocking and smoking.

My ride today was 17km, rain and too much of too dark clouds forced me to a u-turn going back home.
More than yesterday when I rolled out my CB750 K2 and started it. Dark stormy thunder clouds changed my mind.

The weather apps lied. Maybe better luck tomorrow.
« Last Edit: June 07, 2024, 11:19:24 PM by PeWe »
CB750 K6-76  970cc (Earlier 1005cc JMR Billet block on the shelf waiting for a comeback)
CB750 K2-75 Parts assembled to a stock K2

Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9736 on: June 11, 2024, 07:44:40 AM »
Great pics as always, Greg.....
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9737 on: June 11, 2024, 07:58:23 AM »
Nice photos and bike.
Strike dam?
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9738 on: June 11, 2024, 09:26:18 AM »
What a ride with nice photos Greg!
Out into the wilderness on a CB750.
Your dog or one you met?
I remember160.000,  thought that was years ago.

Thanks PeWe.  The dog was at the Grandview store.  I worry a little he might end up getting run over.  He runs around without any noticeable regard for moving cars.  I just looked at the highest mileage thread and see the bike rolled over 165,000 miles in August 2021.  So very slow accumulation these last years since the collision in 2018.  I quit commuting on it after that.  Before that I was putting 5000-6000 miles on it a year.
Great pics as always, Greg.....

Thanks Stev-o, I enjoy yours too.  I enjoyed my rides through parts of Texas.  May be another one in the future because my daughter and family just moved near San Antonio.

Nice photos and bike.
Strike dam?

You've got a good eye.  That is C.J Strike dam and some of the photos are around the reservoir.
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9739 on: June 11, 2024, 02:20:04 PM »
Many of the older dams (around 100 years) all over the west are being removed. After that much time they get silted in and are no longer up to the task they were built for.
Looks like Strike has a ways to go yet, finished in 1952.
The fish love it when the dams go away.
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9740 on: June 12, 2024, 10:57:56 PM »


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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9741 on: June 13, 2024, 01:13:19 AM »
Greg
What did they harvest with that contraption?
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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 have missed it greatly.....
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9742 on: June 13, 2024, 02:51:55 AM »
Yesterday my buddy Pete and I headed off to the Weirs so he could get this year's Laconia Classic pin. He was on his (orange) K4 and I on my K5 (Blue). We didn't take the direct route(66 miles) but the far more scenic indirect roads which was 120 miles to get there from my place through the mountainous central NH roads which were in fairly good condition overall. Coming back we each slit off to go back to our places after gassing up, he wanted to get back to his bride and I headed to the Wednesday night bike night in Milford.
@ 7:30 some of us went for Ice Cream! I got there a few minutes late(I had to put away the cones from the parking lot)so there's an arrow of me coming in with the Hooker Header barking getting to the farmstead. It was a great day of right at 200 miles.
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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 have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9743 on: June 13, 2024, 07:41:20 AM »
Looks like a great trip!
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9744 on: June 13, 2024, 10:47:36 AM »
Greg
What did they harvest with that contraption?

Kevin identifies it over on the 24 rides thread as a thesher AKA grain separator.

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,194195.msg2287510.html#msg2287510

Nice ride report of yours above.
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9745 on: June 13, 2024, 11:07:16 AM »
Yes thanks Greg on both. I had just seen Kevin's reply a minute ago. We didn't have thresher here in NH but I think I remember seeing them while I was out west touring.
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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 have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9746 on: June 17, 2024, 08:00:53 AM »
Not exactly on the road but my K4 is on a [closed] boat ramp!

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9747 on: June 17, 2024, 08:41:09 AM »
Probably a shot for that Zebra mussel thing
I don't have a motorcycle, sold it ('85 Yamaha Venture Royale).  Haven't had a CB750 for over 40 years.

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9748 on: June 17, 2024, 09:51:21 AM »
Probably a shot for that Zebra mussel thing

Hey Rick...yes, is it an issue up there?   With Lake Travis water level so low, most have died off and just the shells remain
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9749 on: June 17, 2024, 09:55:37 AM »
Not exactly on the road. Motoblot is this coming weekend in Chicago and I pulled the bike down from Michigan.

As I was looking at it on the trailer I couldn't help but think how much I like this bike. It fits me exactly right, I love the longer tank and the sleek tail. The Lesters really work, and the color turned out great (although I do need to repaint later this summer, but the color won't change)
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