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Offline UPHOTO

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78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« on: April 15, 2012, 09:53:59 AM »
Well I've had the beast for about 2 years now, she started out as a birthday gift to a good friend of mine who was looking for a bike.  It was sitting in a persons garage for over a decade in amazing shape and was bought for a pretty good deal about 3 years ago.  She had about 8k miles on her and gas in the tank the whole time  :-\

My friend is about 5'8" and 125lbs which isn't a good mix for a stock seated F so it made it's way to me!  You can see it below on the first day he got it, all that was done was to put a new original looking seat and some clubmans.  When I got it I put a cafe seat on and that was about it at first.  I rode it for about a year that way.

Then about a month ago I decided to do a little more work on her.  This is my first classic bike or a bike where I did the work so it was fun to take her apart.......and a little scary.  Paint is done, I don't have a garage or much space so I won't be taking the motor out so I'll rattle can the engine very carefully.  The frame is really clean besides dirt and oil. 

Wheels were powdercoated black and I"ll post pics of those soon. 

Only ran into the usual issues like a ceased oil filter bolt, leaking oil line that decided to give up a bolt head when I went to change it and other "fun" things.

Next images will probably be the bike all back together, just waiting on my rotors that are being drilled as we speak (at least I hope so, guy hasn't been great about communicating).




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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2012, 09:57:10 AM »
I also took the front fender off and put on a fork brace.

Next up I think is going with a combined headlight/speedo and maybe a shaved triple with clip-ons but not sure about that since I don't see me doing rear sets anytime soon since these late F bikes are such a pain to do rear sets on.

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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2012, 10:56:30 AM »
Looking great!  Of course I love seeing another F getting the treatment.  Really digging the blue and white paint.
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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2012, 11:09:15 AM »
Thanks!  Your bike was my inspiration to keep the stock tank.

The blue is BMW Le Mans and I had them add the blue flake to the white also so it continues across. 

I'm also redoing the seat pad in brown instead of black, again a BMW inspiration, I like when they have blue cars with brown leather.

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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2012, 11:10:11 AM »
The brown seat will look great.  BMW's are a great place to gather inspiration, excellent styling.

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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2012, 12:45:12 PM »
The brown seat will look great.  BMW's are a great place to gather inspiration, excellent styling.

Agreed!  Great color choice!
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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2012, 12:55:54 PM »
Thank you!

Here are a few pics from today, still need to touch up paint on the engine and also get my rotors back and installed.

I lowered the headlight after taking this photo.
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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2012, 03:42:06 PM »
Wicked build so far! I have an F myself and will stay tuned for ideas for my build!!

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Re: 78 CB750F horribly documented semi build....?
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2012, 05:30:35 PM »
oh yea, looks sweet.