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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #400 on: March 29, 2014, 10:56:16 PM »
Don, I'm envious sounds like a great ride. Were getting dumped on up here this Saturday. Riddle me this, what kind of set up on the brake lines did you use on the K7?  I want to order my braided stainless but they want extra big bucks for custom lines.  My bike is lowered 2" I'm roughly looking at 3 lines and a tee, 10", 20" and 30".  Do you recall what yours were?

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #401 on: March 29, 2014, 11:38:16 PM »
Quote from: Tsunami on March 29, 2014, 10:56:16 PM
Don, I'm envious sounds like a great ride. Were getting dumped on up here this Saturday. Riddle me this, what kind of set up on the brake lines did you use on the K7?  I want to order my braided stainless but they want extra big bucks for custom lines.  My bike is lowered 2" I'm roughly looking at 3 lines and a tee, 10", 20" and 30".  Do you recall what yours were?

Thanks, Greg

Greg,

Rain in California should be relegated to non-weekend days! 

Since my MC is modern and has an integrated brake switch, I just have two lines running 30" each.  Mine are a little on the longer side.  You could go shorter to 27" and still have plenty of slack with full turn lock each way.  If you are lowered 2", I would probably go less than 30".

Don
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #402 on: March 31, 2014, 04:24:13 PM »
Before I throw this part out in tomorrow's garbage pick-up, here's a cautionary tale about form over function:  A prior builder lasercut my rear brake plate with a scripted "Cafe Racer" for purposes of aesthetics and to vent the rear brakes.  Metal fatigue was obviously not given ample consideration.  With the heating and cooling of the rear brakes with use, the letters broke off, and several pieces fell into the brake drum!  Not good.

I have long since excised the "Cafe Racer" emblazoned parts on the bike with more practical and more aesthetically pleasing parts.  But here's a good lesson to think about. 

Before:



After Use  :o:



Present:

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #403 on: March 31, 2014, 05:47:27 PM »
I have a wall of shame, I mount the item on a piece of wood or metal with the makers name and cost I couldn't recover to remind me to think twice spend once!  Doesn't always work but makes for great shop talk.  I queried the same builder once on an item built for 69-76 SOHC bikes he advertised to fit all bikes.  No problem he says, just move XY&Z on your 77-78, shouldn't make any difference? Decided to make my own, not quite as Purdy but I know it works!  I have a set of black clubmans I purchased new from a guy in Canada, turned out to be a piece of crap, oh he would take it back alright, at my expense to send it, which made it not worth the effort.  I'm still looking for the appropriate piece for a mount for those! Consequentially I try not to buy outside the USA.  Yours is much to Purdy to chuck it, turn it into something positive?  Might make a nice base for a lamp?  I think I saw the same guy selling lamps made out of bike parts, likely stuff he was forced to refund on!  Yours has a perfect hole in the center for a pipe to run wires through, attaché a cup on the stopper tab for paper clips, larger for pens and pencils or glue one of the those little coffee mug warmers on it to keep your cup warm out in the garage?  LOL  You Funny Don
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #404 on: March 31, 2014, 05:50:49 PM »
Quote from: Tsunami on March 31, 2014, 05:47:27 PM
I have a wall of shame, I mount the item on a piece of wood or metal with the makers name and cost I couldn't recover to remind me to think twice spend once!  Doesn't always work but makes for great shop talk.  I queried the same builder once on an item built for 69-76 SOHC bikes he advertised to fit all bikes.  No problem he says, just move XY&Z on your 77-78, shouldn't make any difference? Decided to make my own, not quite as Purdy but I know it works!  I have a set of black clubmans I purchased new from a guy in Canada, turned out to be a piece of crap, oh he would take it back alright, at my expense to send it, which made it not worth the effort.  I'm still looking for the appropriate piece for a mount for those! Consequentially I try not to buy outside the USA.  Yours is much to Purdy to chuck it, turn it into something positive?  Might make a nice base for a lamp?  I think I saw the same guy selling lamps made out of bike parts, likely stuff he was forced to refund on!  Yours has a perfect hole in the center for a pipe to run wires through, attaché a cup on the stopper tab for paper clips, larger for pens and pencils or glue one of the those little coffee mug warmers on it to keep your cup warm out in the garage?  LOL  You Funny Don

Ok, Greg.  You win.  I will fish it out of the trash can and hang it in my garage.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #405 on: March 31, 2014, 05:54:20 PM »
we are not all bad up here in Canada Greg sorry you got burned.bill haha
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #406 on: March 31, 2014, 05:56:09 PM »
Quote from: BPellerine on March 31, 2014, 05:54:20 PM
we are not all bad up here in Canada Greg sorry you got burned.bill haha

Hey, Bill.

Just to be clear:  the brake plate mod was NOT made by a Canadian!

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #407 on: March 31, 2014, 08:43:55 PM »
Dear NO, I have no problem with Canadians, Eh, just the postage is very expensive, alrighty.  Hey Bill drive down to the border and I'll get my cousin Mark who lives in Silver Bay, MN to chuck it over the fence to Ya, Eh. I'll send you money for your time and expenses and would still come out ahead of the postage rates Don't Ya Know!  Just kidding, some of the most beautiful country in the world up there and the Snowbirds CAF demonstration team is one of my all time favorites.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #408 on: March 31, 2014, 08:57:06 PM »
I echo that.  I don't know why our respective postal services hose us on shipping between the US and Canada.  It gets absurdly expensive. 

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #409 on: April 02, 2014, 12:46:48 PM »
yes guys I was only kidding just to make it a little lighthearted as bad as you think it is in the us we have to get everything from the states cant even get something as mundane as a hd camchain up here so far so good for me as I have never had a deal go bad from a us seller!you both have such nice bikes and places relatively close to get all your great stuff!and yes the postal thing is a sore spot for sure seems to be better when you deal with a private person instead of a business .sorry to crash your thread and again nice bikes!bill
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #410 on: April 02, 2014, 05:47:17 PM »
Quote from: BPellerine on April 02, 2014, 12:46:48 PM
yes guys I was only kidding just to make it a little lighthearted as bad as you think it is in the us we have to get everything from the states cant even get something as mundane as a hd camchain up here so far so good for me as I have never had a deal go bad from a us seller!you both have such nice bikes and places relatively close to get all your great stuff!and yes the postal thing is a sore spot for sure seems to be better when you deal with a private person instead of a business .sorry to crash your thread and again nice bikes!bill
No worries, Bill.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #411 on: April 03, 2014, 03:47:25 PM »
It is Thursday, and all I can think about is riding the heck out of my bike this weekend!  Even though this bike took a bit of doing to get here, I am really happy with it now.

Last weekend, some 20-something guys were checking out my bike, and one said, "I bet that bike is a chick magnet."  I had to laugh inside because I couldn't care less about impressing some random girls, but only about satisfying myself and like-minded vintage bike enthusiasts.  I told him, "Not really, but my girlfriend seems to think it's cool.  So I got that going for me."
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #412 on: April 03, 2014, 04:15:32 PM »
Might be worth the experiment should your current friend decide in huge future the bike is cooler than you  ;)

For the record, I doubt the bike is anywhere close to as cool you though, Don- what do the young punks know anyway...
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #413 on: April 03, 2014, 05:06:51 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on April 03, 2014, 04:15:32 PM
Might be worth the experiment should your current friend decide in huge future the bike is cooler than you  ;)

For the record, I doubt the bike is anywhere close to as cool you though, Don- what do the young punks know anyway...

I think I'm of a certain age where my coolness ceases to exist in the minds of most people (mine included), and is relegated to my nephews.  There's a cool TV ad for Dodge running right now that seems to sum up my role as the "crazy uncle."  I can live with that kind of cool.

New 2013 Dodge Challenger & Charger Commercial - Uncle

I didn't introduce them to speed metal, but I did give them some fun rides in my BMW E46 M3 and on my GSXR750 and taught them, when it comes to rock music, "if it's too loud, you're too old [Mom]."

That said, my bike is pretty cool to me!  8)
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #414 on: April 24, 2014, 12:29:30 AM »
The guy fabbing a sheet metal fender to replace the plastic inner fender flaked, so I'm going to just reinstall the plastic for now; that'll protect my electronics from water and road debris.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #415 on: April 25, 2014, 09:42:30 AM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on April 24, 2014, 12:29:30 AM
The guy fabbing a sheet metal fender to replace the plastic inner fender flaked, so I'm going to just reinstall the plastic for now; that'll protect my electronics from water and road debris.

Sorry to hear that, have you talked to bondo lately? I need to go see if he's even started on my tank! I'm waiting for him to call and say it's done lol
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #416 on: April 25, 2014, 10:22:05 AM »
Jordan - buy my BCR tank instead. Saves you time and money
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #417 on: April 25, 2014, 10:46:56 AM »
Quote from: KrautKoffin on April 25, 2014, 09:42:30 AM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on April 24, 2014, 12:29:30 AM
The guy fabbing a sheet metal fender to replace the plastic inner fender flaked, so I'm going to just reinstall the plastic for now; that'll protect my electronics from water and road debris.

Sorry to hear that, have you talked to bondo lately? I need to go see if he's even started on my tank! I'm waiting for him to call and say it's done lol

Hi Jordan,

I saw him two nights ago.  He dropped off my tank and side covers for my stockish 550.  He left Thursday morning for the Laughlin River Run.

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"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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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #418 on: April 25, 2014, 10:54:38 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on April 25, 2014, 10:22:05 AM
Jordan - buy my BCR tank instead. Saves you time and money

Hahah I bought Dons tank months ago and the painter still hasn't gotten back to me! I left a hefty deposit too! It's a cb750 tank so I don't know how well it will work on the 550.. Which BCR tank is it?
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #419 on: April 25, 2014, 12:15:39 PM »
Thread jack: Whale. Built for 550. It's listed in the For Sale section

Thanks, Don
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #420 on: April 25, 2014, 03:30:12 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on April 25, 2014, 12:15:39 PM
Thread jack: Whale. Built for 550. It's listed in the For Sale section

Thanks, Don

Good looking tank.  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135969.0
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"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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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #421 on: April 26, 2014, 08:50:17 AM »
Beautiful tank!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #422 on: April 26, 2014, 08:54:31 AM »
Quote from: KrautKoffin on April 26, 2014, 08:50:17 AM
Beautiful tank!

Are you going to Willow Springs for Corsa Moto Classica today?
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"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: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #423 on: April 26, 2014, 09:54:15 AM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on April 26, 2014, 08:54:31 AM
Quote from: KrautKoffin on April 26, 2014, 08:50:17 AM
Beautiful tank!

Are you going to Willow Springs for Corsa Moto Classica today?


No, I'm working. I won't be doing anything remotely fun until I finish this semester, fiancé/wife leaves.. Take pictures!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #424 on: April 26, 2014, 05:04:05 PM »
I drove up to Willow Springs International Raceway for Corsa Moto Classica 2014 -- the annual vintage motorcycle races and show produced by Yoshi of the Garage Company.  You will be hard pressed to find more examples of Nortons, Tritons, Laverdas, Hondas, Yamahas (especially 2-strokes), Hodakas, Triumphs, Ducatis, etc.  And the majority of them are track bikes actually being raced.  Vendors (Joker, Works, Race Tech) and builders (Lossa Engineering, even Kenny Cummings of NYC Norton) and many racers are on hand.  The racing is fun to watch, too.  Today, the wind was blowing something fierce in the high desert.  I didn't envy the guys on the track dealing with the gusty winds.

Enough yammer, here are some pictures.  I apologize for not snapping any good ones of the many Hondas on display.  I guess I was hypnotized by all of the more exotic makes.

A trio of the numerous Yamahas:







Kenny Cummings' (all the way from New York) Norton Sealy Mk IIs:





Laverda:



Ducati Pantah 500



Brammo Electric Bikes





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2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
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"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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