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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9725 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.
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9726 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 #9727 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 #9728 on: June 11, 2024, 09:26:18 AM »
Quote from: PeWe 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.

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.
Quote from: Stev-o on June 11, 2024, 07:44:40 AM
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.

Quote from: MauiK3 on June 11, 2024, 07:58:23 AM
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 #9729 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 #9730 on: June 12, 2024, 10:57:56 PM »


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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9731 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!
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2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

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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 #9732 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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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 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 #9733 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 #9734 on: June 13, 2024, 10:47:36 AM »
Quote from: newday777 on June 13, 2024, 01:13:19 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 #9735 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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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 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 #9736 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 #9737 on: June 17, 2024, 08:41:09 AM »
Probably a shot for that Zebra mussel thing
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9738 on: June 17, 2024, 09:51:21 AM »
Quote from: Really? on June 17, 2024, 08:41:09 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 #9739 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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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9740 on: June 17, 2024, 02:58:28 PM »
Quote from: Bankerdanny 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)

Yes,I like it Danny. :)
Did you need to do the top-end(valve guides)on it in the past ?
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9741 on: June 17, 2024, 05:41:05 PM »
Quote from: grcamna2 on June 17, 2024, 02:58:28 PM
Quote from: Bankerdanny 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)

Yes,I like it Danny. :)
Did you need to do the top-end(valve guides)on it in the past ?

No, not so far. Mine is an F1 with F2 forks, so it doesn't have the valve guide issues that plague the F2/3. It has an indicated 30k miles and doesn't even use any oil.
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9742 on: June 20, 2024, 11:24:23 PM »
About 5 or 6 hours today up SH55 to Cascade, and then Warm Lake Rd.  Very pleasant, even with the recreational traffic on 55.  Which is to be expected this time of year.





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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9743 on: June 21, 2024, 04:32:17 PM »
A quick spin not far from my house, Placer County Fair opens soon,


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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9744 on: June 26, 2024, 04:00:28 PM »
Great photos Greg those roads look like a lot of fun!
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9745 on: June 26, 2024, 08:04:32 PM »
Thanks Andy, it was a good ride.  Here's a few more from today's ride -




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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9746 on: June 27, 2024, 12:28:57 PM »
Quote from: rtbmrgl on June 21, 2024, 04:32:17 PM
A quick spin not far from my house, Placer County Fair opens soon,
Beautiful motorcycle


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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9747 on: June 28, 2024, 06:21:48 AM »
Greg that top one with the dramatic sky behind is my favourite and would be a great calendar shot!!
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2. CB750/810cc K2  - road racer with JMR worked head 71 hp
3. Yamaha Tenere T700 2022

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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9748 on: June 28, 2024, 07:50:08 AM »
Beautiful country up there!
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Re: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road!
« Reply #9749 on: June 29, 2024, 11:31:34 AM »
Rode about ~130 mi RT to Silverthorne, CO up through the Eisenhower Tunnel. First time I got her all the way up there. She pulled great all the way up.
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