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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #625 on: July 19, 2019, 02:33:48 PM »
Photo_ucket is pretty arrogant to watermark the photos you upload to it. They have no rights to the photos to stamp them like that!  The original poster/photographer should be able download them and they not be watermarked, but I bet you cannot.

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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #626 on: July 19, 2019, 08:33:19 PM »
 Thanks David, They are holding everyone's photos hostage for the monthly fee.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #627 on: July 19, 2019, 08:33:47 PM »
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #628 on: August 02, 2019, 12:14:31 PM »
 It won a bike show last Saturday. Best foreign bike.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #629 on: August 02, 2019, 10:44:41 PM »
Congrats Don!
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #630 on: August 03, 2019, 03:25:24 PM »
Gotta love a K0 that looks that great.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #631 on: September 16, 2019, 07:11:07 PM »
 Did I mention I despise photobucket?
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #632 on: September 20, 2019, 10:06:25 PM »
I paid the fee, I wonder how long until they unlock my photos. 12am -9-21-2019

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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #633 on: October 02, 2019, 12:47:07 PM »
 OK, maybe the bike of the month deserves some freshly polished koni shocks. But with some pretty springs on them.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #634 on: October 26, 2020, 08:19:58 PM »
 Bump for old time's sake. I've been scrolling through my old threads just to see how dumb I was. Much smarter now and humble too. 
  I'm going to undo things I did once to my first K0 and clean up a more recent find.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 11 years later, 2 done, 2 to go.
« Reply #635 on: October 27, 2020, 08:43:15 AM »
The exhaust, the seat, wow, a bike that a mother can love!
Your October appearance on the calendar is in my garage on the refrigerator, great picture.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 11 years later, 2 done, 2 to go.
« Reply #636 on: October 27, 2020, 09:44:27 PM »
  Thanks Maui, that's really cool.
  That pic is of a bike that was a clone of one the PO tried but couldn't buy.
  The one he couldn't buy is the second cb750 sold at our local shop, the guy that assembled it still owns it and he also assembled the first one sold here, my sandcast.
  Judging by the numbers, the bike pictured is probably the third one sold here since the three are each 4,000 numbers apart.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 11 years later, still into it.
« Reply #637 on: March 06, 2021, 04:13:51 PM »
 I got the green one out and rode it today. I just can't stay out of the throttle, 3,500 rpm and up pulls like crazy, 836 kit, ported and KH/F cam It still wants to foul #1 at part throttle cruise. I'm thinking I need to check the metering rod number and clip location. It doesn't flood when parked with the fuel turned on now, that's a bonus. The front forks still feel stiff, I took part of the spring shim out, I may try another set of springs and no shim.
 A carb balance will be in order since I did use new 4-1 cables when I assembled it and I suspect they have broken in  a bit and may need tuned.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, still into it.
« Reply #638 on: March 20, 2021, 05:27:29 PM »
 Today I realized that the Green one has K1 forks. Edit: I see correct forks on it in pics with the black tank, it was me that took them off! They're either on a K2 in storage or went to England on a K1.
   Now I'm realizing how I have evolved as a bike owner. When I found this, I just wanted the Lester mags and anything that ran, and the mags were a shortcut because all the wheels I had were rusty. My brother said it was the easier of the two choices I had to get running. That turned out to not be true and I swapped the engine from the other bike during the process of making something run so we could ride together again.
  The PO had built this as a clone of his favorite bike and used a k4 and a k1 for parts, back then it was my hot rod bike but now is slowly returning to it's original form.
   
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, I've nearly reached my goal.
« Reply #639 on: June 17, 2021, 05:55:31 PM »
 After getting the two colors I really wanted the tri-fecta of a gold one too. Mark B  set me up with a gold tin set and I got that one running. It has a build thread in case no one saw it. What's left is to decide on the exhaust, whether to put the 341's on it or wait until no number pipes are available. I think the 341's will go on it until I move them to my brothers k4.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, I've nearly reached my goal.
« Reply #640 on: June 17, 2021, 06:32:26 PM »
Are the seats on the other 2 bikes OEM or Aftermarket Don? I've got a similar seat on my K0 to your gold bike, but I can see that it doesn't look much like the more original looking ones on the other bikes in your pic? ;D
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, I've nearly reached my goal.
« Reply #641 on: June 17, 2021, 08:15:44 PM »
 The red bike has the original seat with a new red foam, Blue green has an original seat I bought here and gold has a DSS reproduction.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, I've nearly reached my goal.
« Reply #642 on: June 17, 2021, 11:23:34 PM »
Quote from: Don R on June 17, 2021, 08:15:44 PM
The red bike has the original seat with a new red foam, Blue green has an original seat I bought here and gold has a DSS reproduction.

That's good to know, from memory the K0 and K1 seat bases are identical, I've got a K1 seat base here, I might buy the red foam and a new cover from Yamiya and put it on my K0, and put my repro K0 seat on my hotrod K1 build. I picked up a really nice K0 "shorty" chain guard on Ebay Oz last week, so I might retire the one that's on it, it was on my rolling chassis when I bought it, but it's pretty rough. ;D
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, I've nearly reached my goal.
« Reply #643 on: July 01, 2021, 07:48:14 PM »
 Bike of the month from a couple years ago has a problematic#1 carb, The green K0. I've replaced multiple parts, it still overflows repeatedly. I can't say how many times I "found" the issue and thought it was fixed.
 I'm pretty good at closing the petcock but on occasion when out and about I get distracted and leave it on. Like tonight. ARG.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining mode.
« Reply #644 on: July 22, 2021, 02:44:44 PM »
 Red and green are happy, gold still a wee bit rough. I need to get on it. The 341 repro pipes are still in the box from cmsnl. I should install them on something.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining mode.
« Reply #645 on: July 22, 2021, 02:47:07 PM »
There is nothing like the 4-4 setup for looks, sound and performance.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining mode.
« Reply #646 on: July 27, 2021, 10:01:02 AM »
 Agreed, I'd like 4-4's on the Gold K0 but I'm secretly hoping to save the CMSNL 341's I have for my brothers bought new K4 and land another set of no number pipes for the Gold bike.

 Blue Green has had the frame repaired and it left the side stand is a tad too vertical. I have a shortened one but it won't hit the rubber stop on the 4-4 pipes. My next move is to bend one in the hydraulic press. This bike had the shortened one when I got it, with a crescent wrench handle welded on to make a landing pad. Great for dirt parking.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining and improving mode.
« Reply #647 on: July 31, 2021, 08:13:34 AM »
 While counting sprocket teeth on blue/green it was obvious the retainer bolts were not there. Probably for a while, the oiler and it's lock tabs were holding the retainer in place. I cleaned up a pair of nice 8 head bolts and with loctite blue and lock washers, put them on. It's 17/48 at some point it will go 18/48 after I get done thrashing it this fall.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining and improving mode.
« Reply #648 on: July 31, 2021, 01:47:33 PM »
 I found some nicer rear foot pegs, put on new rubbers and gave the bike a polish job.  They stay up now and may stop grabbing my shins every time I walk by.  I mentioned in the racing page I ran it on a blacktop today, it still hasn't been as fast as the Sandcast on top end but that was due to the corn being so close to the road I was on.
 My favorite headlight test road sucks for going fast.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 12 years later, maintaining and improving mode.
« Reply #649 on: August 09, 2021, 03:38:47 PM »
 I did get up to 105 mph on a better road. The top end went lean according to my meter but midrange cruise afr is around 10-1 so today I dropped the metering rods the last notch. They were already on the second down. I accidentally pulled a brass nipple out of the petcock. I drained the tank, cleaned the hole and used red loctite before I tapped it back in.
  The petcock again had grit in it even after multiple tank flushings and a blow out with a leaf blower. I'll check the carb bowls  again but will leave the main jets while I test some more.
  Moral of the story, don't count on a body man keeping the gas tank sealed while blasting the old paint off of it, my foil tape was loose on one side when it came back.  I refer to the guy as old 80% because that's my satisfaction rate with him. He's not perfect 8 0f 10 times, just 80% on everything. 
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