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Offline Eydugstr

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21950 on: June 12, 2016, 02:03:29 PM »
Quote from: Desert-SOHC on June 12, 2016, 01:51:38 PM
Washed it!   :P

Same here, but cleaned up the Connie and Voyager while I was at it, too.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21951 on: June 12, 2016, 07:00:56 PM »
Put them outside and took some photos while I was cleaning up all the rain water that leaked into the garage  :-\
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21952 on: June 12, 2016, 07:08:41 PM »
Today I went for a ride and got it very dirty in the wet fog on muddy roads .... Cold for California. But fun!  (My CB is in the back there...
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21953 on: June 12, 2016, 08:59:36 PM »
Hi Dave,

Just noticed your post about nerve pain and thought I'd send a comment your way.  The grips you have there look pretty good actually, but I have had good success with the ones below.  I am not affiliated with Randakk's, but am a satisfied customer:

http://randakks.com/products/randakks-amazing-grips

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21954 on: June 12, 2016, 10:55:47 PM »
Took the Transalp out on a group ride today.

Melbourne was all blue sky and sunny, but around 4 degrees C at 8am.

We left the city and went out to the airport, then rode the famous "Mad Max" roads out there (USA people got that movie from us as "The Road Warrior"). Then we went up to Lancefield, through Pyalong to Seymour for a pub lunch, then down to Strath Creek, across to Flowerdale, up to Kinglake and down to St.Andrews.

Probably means nothing to a lot of you (except Terry here) - but these roads are magnificent and right on Melbourne's doorstep.

So if you re ever here - maybe we can take you out on them.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21955 on: June 13, 2016, 12:25:11 AM »
Put a little diy twist on the pedestrian slicer.

Waiting for the paint to dry.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21956 on: June 13, 2016, 09:57:16 AM »
Prepped a spare cam and valve cover for install after new pucks and o-rings are received in today's mail.

Hope to be riding again tonight. It's been a couple weeks.


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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21957 on: June 13, 2016, 12:50:21 PM »
Quote from: joeyvans on June 13, 2016, 09:57:16 AM
Prepped a spare cam and valve cover for install after new pucks and o-rings are received in today's mail.

Hope to be riding again tonight. It's been a couple weeks.


Yeehaw!  Hard to believe two sohc4 members burned out rockerboxes within 2 weeks of each other.


Anyway, the paint dried on my slicer, so I mounted it and put the wheel back on!

That was a fun little project.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21958 on: June 13, 2016, 12:53:24 PM »
Quote from: BomberMann650 on June 13, 2016, 12:50:21 PM
Yeehaw!  Hard to believe two sohc4 members burned out rockerboxes within 2 weeks of each other.

I'm guessing mine was bad for awhile, but I had been too concerned about carb tuning to really dig into it.



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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21959 on: June 13, 2016, 01:22:28 PM »
Made a nice curbside score today on the way to a buddies house.
Somebody was giving away/throwing out a couple of paddock stands and some new Emgo anti-vibe bar plugs.
The black one is a Trackside with the paddles in the little box.
The white one has no name on it and the wheels need lubed.
So anyway that was nice!  :)
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21960 on: June 13, 2016, 01:26:28 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 01:22:28 PM
Made a nice curbside score today on the way to a buddies house.
Somebody was giving away/throwing out a couple of paddock stands and some new Emgo fork anti-vibe plugs.
The black one is a Trackside with the paddles in the little box.
The white one has no name on it and the wheels need lubed.
So anyway that was nice!  :)

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21961 on: June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 PM »
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.



Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21962 on: June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 PM »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 PM
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



You got a hard copy?
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21963 on: June 13, 2016, 03:36:00 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 PM
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 PM
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



You got a hard copy?

Yes.  eBay again.  I search CB500 & CB550 daily and this happened to pop up.  This is the 1972 publication.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21964 on: June 13, 2016, 03:45:04 PM »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 PM
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.



Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.



Nice bike
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21965 on: June 13, 2016, 04:02:45 PM »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21966 on: June 13, 2016, 04:13:30 PM »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21967 on: June 13, 2016, 04:48:00 PM »
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 03:36:00 PM
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 03:25:18 PM
Quote from: Schroeder on June 13, 2016, 02:49:30 PM
Got my eBay headlight brackets and reshaped them to fit the 35mm fork tubes.


Also read through the Shop Manual a bit.  Great find.


You got a hard copy?

Yes.  eBay again.  I search CB500 & CB550 daily and this happened to pop up.  This is the 1972 publication.

Nice! I like having the original paper!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21968 on: June 13, 2016, 04:50:41 PM »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21969 on: June 13, 2016, 05:20:44 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on June 13, 2016, 04:50:41 PM

As long as it's not the seat. ;)

Nice look with that fender..

Absolutely not the seat! haha. 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21970 on: June 14, 2016, 04:13:14 AM »
Quote from: TomsK8resto on June 03, 2016, 08:34:53 AM
Ordered a new set of handle bars for my '78 750K bike.  The set that came on it were too tall, the super bike bars on it now are too short, so I ordered a set of '69-'71 750 replica bars from 4into1.  Hopefully they will be just right!

Tom
The PO put some cafe' bars on my K4, but included the originals. I was planning to revert back to them.  Were the tall ones stock or aftermarket?  Are they replicas to OEM spec?
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21971 on: June 14, 2016, 10:23:18 AM »
Depends on what you mean by tall. But in the US the bikes came with taller bars than the European SOHC4's and a lot of owners don't like them and go with what is commonly known as superbike bars, which are 2-3 inches lower than the typical OEM US spec bar, but not flat like drag bars or below the triples like clubmans and clip-ons.

I think that the rise on OEM bars is in the 4 inch range
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21972 on: June 14, 2016, 01:00:52 PM »
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21973 on: June 14, 2016, 01:02:03 PM »
Quote from: Bankerdanny on June 14, 2016, 10:23:18 AM
Depends on what you mean by tall. But in the US the bikes came with taller bars than the European SOHC4's and a lot of owners don't like them and go with what is commonly known as superbike bars, which are 2-3 inches lower than the typical OEM US spec bar, but not flat like drag bars or below the triples like clubmans and clip-ons.

I think that the rise on OEM bars is in the 4 inch range

+1 to low rise superbike mgp bars.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #21974 on: June 14, 2016, 04:02:55 PM »

Quote from: djwillard18 on June 14, 2016, 04:13:14 AM
Quote from: TomsK8resto on June 03, 2016, 08:34:53 AM
Ordered a new set of handle bars for my '78 750K bike.  The set that came on it were too tall, the super bike bars on it now are too short, so I ordered a set of '69-'71 750 replica bars from 4into1.  Hopefully they will be just right!

Tom
The PO put some cafe' bars on my K4, but included the originals. I was planning to revert back to them.  Were the tall ones stock or aftermarket?  Are they replicas to OEM spec?

The taller bars which came on my '78 cb750K bike were stock on that vintage K bike.  Comfortable, but a bit higher than I liked.  I tried the superbike bars and had problems with my wrists.  They looked great, but were not comfortable for very long.  I found these replica bars at 4into1, installed them, got my cables routed to where everything works smoothly and then rode it.  I like them very much.  They are about 2" less rise than the bars that came on my bike which I think were stock for '77/'78.

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