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Offline IRISHCBRACER

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures)
« Reply #150 on: October 03, 2016, 12:37:17 PM »
I should have gone to the track that weekend.  It's only 40 miles from here (and no traffic from this side).

I'll forgive you for ditching your front end with my part.

LOL!  That's right! I went a little sideways from using the OEM CB forks ;)  I resold your speedo drive to another project guy ;)

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #151 on: October 04, 2016, 07:33:19 AM »
Were you allowed to take the bike on the track at COTA? Did anyone ride the track with the bike?

I'm wondering if it is as fun as it looks.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #152 on: October 04, 2016, 10:16:46 AM »
Were you allowed to take the bike on the track at COTA? Did anyone ride the track with the bike?

I'm wondering if it is as fun as it looks.

I doubt anyone did any hot laps on this then freshly completed bike, but I bet it would be fun!
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #153 on: October 04, 2016, 11:04:13 PM »
Correct, no riding COTA with a packed MotoGP and MotoAmerica racing schedule.

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #154 on: October 07, 2016, 08:29:11 AM »
Wow, that's an inspirational bike build for sure! Good luck with the BOTM nomination. Awesome attention to detail everywhere on your bike. Good work! ;)

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #155 on: October 07, 2016, 12:08:01 PM »
Maith an buachaill !

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #156 on: August 17, 2017, 10:28:18 PM »
Slainte!

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #157 on: August 18, 2017, 08:24:37 PM »
One of my favorites.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #158 on: November 15, 2017, 09:31:35 AM »
KUDOS to Paul.  The LCR tribute bike is featured in the December 2017 issue of Cycle World!!

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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