Topic: What did you do to your bike today ?

[Freaky1]

Ed - I gently used a scribe to pry it out, I would not doubt there is a better way, slow and easy won this race for me though.

Took the cover off the shifter side to find out why there was a noise coming from there, small gear was loose. Loctite-ed that sucker in there and tweeked the lock washer some, can't imagine I'll have that problem again.

Took her out on a nice strech of road that jus happens to run by a Harley dealership and a Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki shop, hit almost 90 and she took it all in stride. Have I said how much I love her?

[Markcb750]

The only two European countries on that list that drive on the left are #25 & 71...

14, 20. 25, 26. 29. 38. and 39

Mick

OK, OK;  I should have said continental European countries.





Jeezlaweez.

I did say i was bored.....

Mick

Ditto   

[bucky katt]

i set the timing, put the hondaman ignition on and went for a ride. what a difference it makes, not only going from stock points but coming from 3ohm dynas and a dyna s. it starts alot quicker and i only run the choke about 30 seconds and it's ready to roll. running at part throttle has a much crisper sound and nice quick throttle response. it wanted to pull well past redline too, in 1st redline was there before i knew it, and thats running 17/46 sprockets on my k4 750. i then went to turn into my driveway and dumped the bastard. my leg protected the tank and side cover but the kerker i was supposed to sell to a fellow member is toast now. other than a few bruises and a scuffed helmet everything is cool. now i have to decide whether to put the mac 4 into 1 or a jardine 4 into 2 onto it.

[Ryan 550k]

I visited my bike at the shop and looked at it longingly.  Imagined all of the cool, fun things I'd like to do to it.

This sounds creepy doesn't it?  

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Glad ur OK Bucky!  As for the Kerker, well, DAMN!

[bucky katt]

i just finished bolting a mac header with a pacesetter exhaust tip that was on a spitfire i used to have. i got to say to the wife "i told you it would come in handy one day" about the header and exhaust that i salvaged off the burned car.

[gearhead ed]

Thanks Freaky1 I'll give that a try.

[xfactor]

Today I spent some time charging and eventually firing her up. As far as I can tell everything is fine, except that it is running a bit rich. I can post a video of it tomorrow, but any suggests as to why its running rich I would love to hear them.

Croix

[Hush]

Rebuilt my siren circuit board, man is that thing loud!
Mental note: do not set off the Police siren in an all steel garage.....
Got 5 different tones, guess I'll just annoy the neighbours until I find one I like.

[Terry in Australia]

Well I had to buy a set of Yamaha FZR1000 forks to replace the bent ones on my K2/F2, none listed on EBay so I had to ring around all the wreckers (well, all the wreckers left, EBay has pretty much killed the business of parting and selling crashed bikes here) and there was only one pair here in Melbourne, for the ridiculous price of 450 bucks, ouch! Oh well, I can't ride it without forks, so I ponied up the dough, and I also picked up a nice chrome fender for another 50.



The forks are back together now, the wheel is on and the brakes are connected. I still need to mount the fender, my nice chrome headlight bucket, speedo and tach etc, but it's getting there. I threw on my Yoshimura pipe and fired it up, and I've gotta say, this is the sweetest CB750 (albeit 836CC) I've ever owned. It really does feel and certainly sounds like a race bike with a nice crisp bark when you crank the (extremeley light, thanks to the CV carbs) throttle.



I'd done an oil and filter change and swapped the filter canister for another one I had in my spares box, but it turned out that the canister was cracked! Bugger! Ok, took the pipe off again, replaced the canister, reinstalled the pipe and took it for a quick ride up and down my street, and I gotta say that it goes as good as it sounds. I'm looking forward to finishing it and taking it for a decent ride! Cheers, Terry.  

[andy750]

Are Yamaha FZR1000 a straight bolt on to the 750 triple tree? Or are some mods required? What size front wheel do you use with that?

thanks
Andy

[Retro Rocket]

Looking very nice Terry.....

Mick

[Brown Bomber]

Yeah Terry, tell us more about that front wheel, fork setup. Looks great!

[Industrial Cafe]

man that looks good, the rotors look like they bolt right up, the calipers look sexy, and the overall look still has a 'vintage race' look to it.



maybe you could post a thread about it?

[n9viw]

I wandered out to the garage today, and after putting hinges on the plywood hanging over the doorframe, I had new doors! Low-buck, that's me.

I haven't touched my poor CB550 except to push it from here to there and back as we've recently (well, December '08) moved 600 miles to our new farm. Poor thing has been languishing in an unheated, un-de-humidified drafty barn of a garage for the last year, and languished in an unheated, un-de-humidified drafty barn of a garage for two or three years before that as I was made redundant and enjoyed the trials and travails of joblessness for a bit. I was partway into a project on it when I got a new job, and never got back to it.

ANYWAY!

Rebuilt carbs, fresh gas, new battery (still gotta change the oil), but he had no love for me. I kicked myself half-dead before I ran the battery half-dead, and all he had for me was some faint-hearted popping and stumbling, occasionally voicing his displeasure with me with the occasional backfire. Yipes! No sustained fire and running for me, I've got to get back in his good graces.

The battery's back on the charger now, I'll get some good oil into him and give the carbys another going-over. Perhaps if I can coax some fire out of him I'll take him out and blow the dust off, then change the oil again, as it's been sitting in the sump all this 3 years' time (Yipes! again!).

Nick

[Kinch]

Got my K5 running well with some advice from knowledgeable folks on here, moved onto my GS850 and put on the new stainless steel brake lines that I had ordered but couldn't figure out for the life of me how I misjudged the needed length because I was about an inch short of reaching the bracket after all was set up.

After scratching my head for a bit I realized that I had the thing on the center stand but measured the hoses with the bike on the ground  

New MC, new front brake lines and now the thing stops on a dime....hooray!

[Grnrngr]

The days just run into each other....bought a 76 cb750 front end; clamps, legs, fender, and caliper with mount...$100. Last week, found another 83 Virago 500 (the only year for the 500) that had been sitting in the garage since 93, 16k miles. PO said "It needs a starter, the guy I got it from said to always pull in the clutch, even when the neutral light is on because it might not actually be in neutral, one day I forgot to pull in the clutch, hit the starter, heard a pop and a big puff of smoke came up from between my legs...but I rode it for a while after that, it always started real easy just pushing it down the gravel road." Hmmmmm..starter's up front, not likely to puff smoke between yer legs..a little gas in the (clean as a whistle inside) tank, put the jumper cables on the crusty dried out 20yr old battery, arced the solenoid, and started it after 17 yrs of silence. Still needs some tweaking but hey...for $300 with title, it'll clean up nice. Sorry about the "non-Honda" post...   been thinkin about putting my spare K motor in a Yammie frame with Kawie wheels/forks and calling it a Hondawasakamaha...

[Cormac]

ATF/acetone in the cylinders, PB on the case screws, and told it in a firm, commanding voice "You will turn over. Or you will be torn apart, take your pick"... I do believe a rebuild is rapidly approaching. Damn the rainforest anyway! Who knew that if you let these things sit for 5 years they freeze up solid?

[bucky katt]

i rode the #$%* out of it 

[Retro Rocket]

i rode the #$%* out of it 

Right side up i hope......

Mick

[Terry in Australia]

Are Yamaha FZR1000 a straight bolt on to the 750 triple tree? Or are some mods required? What size front wheel do you use with that?

thanks
Andy

man that looks good, the rotors look like they bolt right up, the calipers look sexy, and the overall look still has a 'vintage race' look to it.



maybe you could post a thread about it?

Yeah Terry, tell us more about that front wheel, fork setup. Looks great!

Thanks Guys, The hubs have "bolt on" stainless steel extensions that bolt them on to the OEM hub with a different stud pattern for the the FZR discs, special axle spacers and speedo drive arrangement. The triple trees are custom made from billet, to accept the 41mm OD fork tubes, and a special steering tube was machined from billet steel. Apparently the aluminium block that the bottom tree was cut from was 300 bucks alone! The PO machined them on a CNC mill and did a magnificent job, underneath he machined a lot of material out, but machined what looks like cast "webs" to give it strength without the weight. 

I do have a set of FZR1000 trees that have been modified (new steering stem machined from billet etc) to go straight into a CB750, if anyone's interested, I thought about fitting another set of FZR forks to one of my other CB750's, but I really need to sell some of those bikes, so I'll leave them alone. I could also do another complete FZR 1000 conversion, I suppose, but I'd use the later 43mm forks, for some reason the early 41mm forks are hard to come by.

Good thing is the FZR forks are only about 20mm shorter than OEM CB750 forks, so with the 18 inch front wheel you've got a racier "stance" without the alternator cover dragging around corners, as most old bikes fitted with modern suspension components and 17 inch wheels will do. Thanks again guys, Cheers, Terry.

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Took 'er off the cycle jack after finishing up a 750K1 fork graft onto a 550K3 tree (read: bigger brake disk).  I still need to fit a fender and brace.  Took 'er out for a romp around the neighborhood.  Damn! I missed her! 

So far the graft seems to be taking.  Front braking feels strong, but I'm holding off judgment until the new pads seat into that big disk.  Not a lota pep out of the engine.  Think a tune-up is in her near future. 

Swap meet on Sunday. 

[Industrial Cafe]

good to hear!

pix?

[bucky katt]

i rode the #$%* out of it 

Right side up i hope......

Mick

yes, i stayed off the ground too 

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Took 'er off the cycle jack after finishing up a 750K1 fork graft onto a 550K3 tree (read: bigger brake disk).  I still need to fit a fender and brace.  Took 'er out for a romp around the neighborhood.  Damn! I missed her! 

So far the graft seems to be taking.  Front braking feels strong, but I'm holding off judgment until the new pads seat into that big disk.  Not a lota pep out of the engine.  Think a tune-up is in her near future. 

Swap meet on Sunday. 

good to hear!

pix?

OK, but just a peek, her leggs are still nakked!