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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #425 on: May 10, 2014, 04:12:46 PM »
I have a wee bit of a leak where my valve cover meets the head.  The head was decked, and an application of RVT failed to cure it!  I suspect my Cycle X valve cover with the cam tower stabilizers has enough warp on the mating surface to not properly seal.  I will likely (gulp) pull the motor and deck the surface of the valve cover.

And, yes damn it, I am going to finally install my Gordon frame splice kit, so pulling the motor will not be necessary again!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #426 on: May 10, 2014, 06:52:40 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on May 10, 2014, 05:38:20 PM
Any way to install the frame kit without removing the motor? Wouldn't that be nice..?

That might be possible.  If you're using a hacksaw for the cuts, and you cover the motor during the welding process, I think you can get away with it.  Hmmm.  I might just do that!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #427 on: May 10, 2014, 07:01:31 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on May 10, 2014, 06:59:31 PM
Try using a good quality pipe cutter. You can get a decent one at the home center, and use it to "score" the tubes. You may be a while cutting all the way thru with it, but start with it, then switch to a hacksaw to finish the cuts.

And use some cutting fluid while you do it. Makes cutting the steel tubes a lot easier.

Great idea.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #428 on: May 24, 2014, 06:11:49 PM »
Gordon's Frame Kit installed -- cutting and welding with the engine in frame; leaking valve cover fixed with some RTV.  Nine Lives is back in action!





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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #429 on: May 24, 2014, 07:26:47 PM »
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  8)
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #430 on: May 24, 2014, 07:29:38 PM »
Damn that thing looks nice.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #431 on: May 25, 2014, 12:37:40 AM »
Thanks, guys.  I'll give her a proper cleaning and another proper ride tomorrow!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #432 on: May 25, 2014, 09:37:04 PM »

I have to tell you again: Nine Lives is one great-looking bike!

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #433 on: May 25, 2014, 11:24:30 PM »
Quote from: Vincent on May 25, 2014, 09:37:04 PM

I have to tell you again: Nine Lives is one great-looking bike!

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Thanks, Vincent.  I guess I can also tell you again: I'm a huge fan of your CR build!
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #434 on: May 26, 2014, 05:19:23 PM »
Great 200 mile ride up and down Angeles Crest Highway.  Amazing twisties!  If you are in the SoCal area, this should be on your list of To Do's! 
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #435 on: June 09, 2014, 12:10:03 AM »
Went to the Vintage Bike OC monthly meet-up in Huntington Beach today. Lots of cool vintage bikes, including a Norvin, lots of Triumphs a pair of CBXs and a few CBs. About 130 bikes ridden in. Really nice people. I got a HUGE surprise by winning their ride in contest. Wow!!


























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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #436 on: June 09, 2014, 02:51:07 AM »
Well done big fella.... ;D ;)
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #437 on: June 09, 2014, 06:35:03 AM »
Great looking bike, I can't believe how much patience you've had throughout the process dealing with vendors. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the digital gauge it seems out of place on a bike that has a vintage look to it. 
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« Reply #438 on: June 09, 2014, 06:49:26 AM »
Nice job. Sounded like a great time to boot.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #439 on: June 09, 2014, 05:52:35 PM »
Thanks, guys. It was a really great group. No poseurs or attitude. There were some amazing restos including an Indian Scout used in the Bejamin Button movie that I thought blew my bike away. Luckily the Scout was a former winner.  All riders, too.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #440 on: June 09, 2014, 09:14:56 PM »
I've looked at this bike many times as a resource while trying to figure out the long term plan for mine. Never noticed this before but I love how the lines flow from the tank all the way back to the seat. Really nice. For a while now I've thought I would keep my bike with the stock seat so I could ride two up with my wife but after my first safety class today (I finish tomorrow) I now think I might end up doing a solo seat.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #441 on: June 10, 2014, 10:54:39 AM »
River,

Cal's advice is spot on.  Get lots of seat time before you tackle 2-up riding.  It is like riding with a 115 lb or so sack of potatoes.  You want to be as sure-footed as possible before you have a passenger to accompany you.  Imagine if you had to swerve or make a panic stop with your wife aboard.  That would be enough to contend with if you are inexperienced and riding alone.  Seat time (with good habits) will create safe riding instincts to keep your skin on your body and not on the pavement. 

It's hard enough for me to get my better half to ride pillion.  If I were a newbie, there's no way in hell she would get on the seat.

Enjoy the heck out of that bike!

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #442 on: June 10, 2014, 10:58:24 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 03:43:52 AM
Thread jack: Riv, best to get plenty of riding experience as a solo before you commence carting your bride about. Short, casual stuff is fine, but you still need lots of seat time before you take on the added dimension of a passenger.

If modifying your seat plans to a solo effects that restriction, then do it, I say. I tell my boys that they need 5,000 miles of riding experience (and I gauge check them) before they get a 2-up seat. And I still ride with them on short area rides to monitor their progress.

I'm a bit over-protective on riding behavior as I strongly believe 99% of all bike accidents are the fault of the rider (either too much speed, poor decisions, poor technique, not being "seen" or just plain old "I'm in the right, they'll stop mentality"). Doesn't matter if you're "right" and dead...

Sorry, guys, sermon over.

It is a beauty of a bike, Don and so delighted you're finally getting lots of trouble free riding on it! Now pull a Tweakin' and sell it  :o

Sell the Nine Lives bike, Cal?  Are you interested?  Someone asked me this weekend how much I had into the bike.  I really have no idea, nor do I want to tally up all of the build costs.  I know I will never get what I put into it, if I sell it. 

But, if you know someone who really wants to buy it, there's a price for everything!  Regretably, I think I will plan on selling my RC51 instead.  I'm wondering how longer I can hunch over a superbike as I get older, and it numbs my wrists on any appreciable long distance.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #443 on: June 10, 2014, 11:04:13 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 11:02:23 AM
I wouldn't insult you, Don. It's not what's it's worth, it's what I have left after these outlandish bike builds  ;)

I just figured Tweakin had set the new mode of getting it running great, every conceivable upgrade, then selling it below capital value, so you'd be next! Now, if you need to move that outta your garage to accommodate some space, I'd be proud to make sure it gets ridden properly, maintained perfectly, and travels the show circuit here to keep it "fresh" and "hip". Let me know, I'll send a trailer (got one going by Trad's place to pick up my $100.00 bike from him).

Bwah-hahahah!

;) There's always a comedian in any group!
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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
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #444 on: June 10, 2014, 11:13:15 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 11:02:23 AM
I wouldn't insult you, Don. It's not what's it's worth, it's what I have left after these outlandish bike builds  ;)

I just figured Tweakin had set the new mode of getting it running great, every conceivable upgrade, then selling it below capital value, so you'd be next! Now, if you need to move that outta your garage to accommodate some space, I'd be proud to make sure it gets ridden properly, maintained perfectly, and travels the show circuit here to keep it "fresh" and "hip". Let me know, I'll send a trailer (got one going by Trad's place to pick up my $100.00 bike from him).

Bwah-hahahah!

Cal, I told you to add two more zero's as in $10000. Not two after the decimal point like $100.00, Wise Guy.  :P
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #445 on: June 10, 2014, 11:27:09 AM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 11:16:07 AM
What you said and what you meant are not the same. But I will concede, it's worth what you're asking. And I can't afford it now that I'm buying Don's 750. So we are all good!

Got the trailer to turn left to head towards SoCal from NDak. Caught him in the nick of time before he crossed the border...

Haha, busy guy over here. I still think we should pick a date and meet somewhere in the USA, and test driver each others bikes. Wouldn't that be awesome? I think so!.......... I'll even trailer in from up here in the great white north.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #446 on: June 10, 2014, 02:33:41 PM »
Oh I completely agree and I'm glad I took this class. I really don't want her on it at all so all the more reason to change it. I'll keep it as is for the summer but that will be on the list to address in the fall. I passed my class today and got a helmet on the way home. Now I need to get to the DMV and then get tires.
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #447 on: June 10, 2014, 09:20:46 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 11:31:55 AM
Since I've got a trailer rumbling along the badlands now, how about he stops by, grabs your bike, then goes to SoCal, grabs Don's, and bring them here. I'll hold them for you all and we can drive the Blue Ridge Parkway during the premium autumn foliage scenes? Devin lives right near by, Chaser60, and Jordan will be here by then too!

I like this idea, I should be able to come up with my dad on his new cb450 ;)
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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #448 on: June 10, 2014, 10:52:43 PM »
Quote from: calj737 on June 10, 2014, 11:31:55 AM
Since I've got a trailer rumbling along the badlands now, how about he stops by, grabs your bike, then goes to SoCal, grabs Don's, and bring them here. I'll hold them for you all and we can drive the Blue Ridge Parkway during the premium autumn foliage scenes? Devin lives right near by, Chaser60, and Jordan will be here by then too!

You guys have some beautiful roads through the country.
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1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"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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1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
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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Re: CB750K7 Nine Lives Cafe Racer
« Reply #449 on: July 03, 2014, 08:10:02 AM »
Wow, just found this thread. What a story and a fantastic looking bike to boot! I've gotta ask about those rotors were they for the GL model? I have a extra stock calliper for my K7 and really would like to do the conversion. I'm a newish rider and these 70s brakes are a little scary!
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