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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #625 on: July 11, 2019, 03:50:07 PM »
Bike looks so damn good with the Lesters, by the way...  One aftermarket part that was really superior to what Honda provided imo
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #626 on: July 11, 2019, 05:25:19 PM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on July 11, 2019, 03:50:07 PM
Bike looks so damn good with the Lesters, by the way...  One aftermarket part that was really superior to what Honda provided imo
Thanks, I had two parts bikes and drove 30 miles to my friends bike shop looking for info on spokes or rims. His wife does the parts and she said I needed some Lesters. I went home and searched for Lester mags on craigslist and there was this bike. A few miles from that shop. The bike's owner cloned the shop owners bike because he couldn't buy it. So here is a town of maybe 50 people and two K0 750's with Lester mags.
 I actually bought a no title K0 for the rims so I could make this one a spoke rim bike. Buuuut that's not happening any time soon.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #627 on: July 12, 2019, 06:10:38 AM »
Quote from: Don R on July 11, 2019, 02:44:41 PM


Wow! That looks amazing. 

What do you have left to do? 
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #628 on: July 12, 2019, 01:36:32 PM »
I'm calling it a resto mod and done. As a contrast to the red Sandcast survivor. I procured a 69 engine with a non stamped replacement case but the 836 is just too much fun. I don't see me changing it any time soon. I'm ready to enjoy it for a couple years.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #629 on: July 12, 2019, 04:48:45 PM »
That is a pretty pair of bikes  8)
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #630 on: July 12, 2019, 09:19:32 PM »
 Thanks, the red one came from a friends estate. I had to bid on it to get it. When he was alive he let me look at it to see how to rebuilt the green one. I think he wanted me to have it. After I got it running I rode it to show the family.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #631 on: July 13, 2019, 09:05:24 AM »
Can I get a second to my nomination?  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,176614.0.html
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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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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: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #632 on: July 13, 2019, 09:06:37 AM »
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #633 on: July 13, 2019, 09:09:23 AM »
Quote from: Bankerdanny on July 13, 2019, 09:06:37 AM
Quote from: SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan on July 13, 2019, 09:05:24 AM
Can I get a second to my nomination?  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,176614.0.html

Done


Don,
Please head over to the Open Nomination thread and accept. 👍🏻
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
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)

Sold/Emeritus
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: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #634 on: July 13, 2019, 07:17:27 PM »
 I am honored and humbled, thank you.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #635 on: July 19, 2019, 11:57:50 AM »
 I see photobucket screwed me on some of the photo's. Dang. I think some are on floppy discs lol. My old sony camera used them.
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #636 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.

Congrats on the nomination!

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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #637 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 #638 on: July 19, 2019, 08:33:47 PM »
« Last Edit: July 19, 2019, 08:35:54 PM by Don R »
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Re: I've been K0'd! 10 years later, it's done.
« Reply #639 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 #640 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 #641 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 #642 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 #643 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 #644 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 #645 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 #646 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 #647 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 #648 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 #649 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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