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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #75 on: February 11, 2012, 12:53:26 AM »
Let me help get this thread back on track...  I like the bike.  I really like the tires, they may not handle well, but I can't ride well either...

It will be me that wrecks the bike before I can blame my tires.  Yes, I have wrecked with nice tires and bad tires. 

I'm working on a cb450k5 (basket case) cafe racer and then moving on to a cb500t or cb450 brat-style bike.  I am going to use this bike as inspiration once I finish my current project--will have the firestones or maybe cokers.  The 750 is too much bike for me (too heavy and too much motor).
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #76 on: July 31, 2012, 01:12:34 PM »
I'm a new member on here, just got my first bike, 1978 CB750F, and i just want you to know.....a few months ago i saw your motorcycle on BikeExif and it is one of the reasons i bought the motorcycle i did. You bike is EXACTLY the style i love and i think the fact you did it on a budget is even better. You had a hand in my motorcycle inspiration, and i thank you for that

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #77 on: July 31, 2012, 10:54:20 PM »
Great looking bike.  I built a cafe out of my then less desirable K7.  If your bike had been a pristine example, I would have voted for preservation.  But whatever, it's yours to do with, not mine.  I think your build came out great.  I love the seat.
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #78 on: July 31, 2012, 11:42:51 PM »
I came up on a 78 K for $250 that I was planning on having a good time turning into a mild cafe but the dang thing is so original that I have a hard time justifying modifying it.  I was pleased when I saw the original tool kit under the seat.  Then I saw the owners manual in the flap under the seat also I was blown away.  Still has the factory spare fuses.  So until my budget picks up I will just be spending time cleaning and polishing and tuning. 
Great looking build though.  Would love to hear those pipes

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #79 on: August 26, 2012, 05:44:26 PM »
Very nice, and welll done
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #80 on: August 27, 2012, 11:04:35 AM »
12 grand might get you a really busted up Vincent motor
 Take a good core bike, restore it, subtract that from 12 grand, Is that a exorbitant sum?

 A lot more folks can afford 750s than Vincents.. and there are barn fresh ones showing up weekly..

 Iconic and desireable, does not always mean rare.

 If they were as tough to find as say a Vincent, you would see far less of them being  butchered these days.
  The Vincent stock has a look that appeals to a lot more people than the stock 750 look..IMO

It is too bad that HONDA did not mass produce that big V twin they made a prototype of. I was a 954 I believe, and looked a lot like the Vincent engine.

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #81 on: October 17, 2012, 07:53:01 PM »
I'm a new member on here, just got my first bike, 1978 CB750F, and i just want you to know.....a few months ago i saw your motorcycle on BikeExif and it is one of the reasons i bought the motorcycle i did. You bike is EXACTLY the style i love and i think the fact you did it on a budget is even better. You had a hand in my motorcycle inspiration, and i thank you for that

Thanks so much, your comment really means a lot...... Thanks!!!

Here is what the bike sits like today.... a little more refind.
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #82 on: October 18, 2012, 08:55:56 AM »
I like the look of the bike, but I cringe thinking of right handers , but hey thats just me. Its not my bike.
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #83 on: October 18, 2012, 09:21:03 AM »
Quote from: roach carver
but I cringe thinking of right handers

So do I haha and pot holes for that matter lol.

Can't we all just get along hahaha? Anyways like I said before I built this bike to have a certain look and I was willing to sacrifice pretty much anything and everything to achive that look. The bike doesnt handle great but its not as bad as some of you might think. Ya I have to avoid pot holes and watch out for bumps because it feels like the rear tire goes right up my ass sometime. Its basiclly built to look bad ass and ride straight on a warm day on a smooth road maybe once a week lol haha.... for any other spirited riding I have five other rare purpose made bikes ;-)

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #84 on: October 18, 2012, 03:31:48 PM »
 Oasis, you need a high pipe, will try to post a pic of mine later...
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #86 on: October 18, 2012, 04:56:56 PM »
Mmmmm high pipes  ;D

But for really I think I'll keep the straight flat pipes.....I really went for that flat straight line on this bike so I think the pipes on it really go with the look.

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #87 on: October 18, 2012, 07:45:58 PM »
CycleX have some cheap low pipes that would look great on your bike... Actually, that side winder looks like a cyclex pipe...
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #88 on: October 18, 2012, 08:48:25 PM »
Oh yeah..wait till you see mine..Got a buddy in Calgary that wants set, if there was more demand..be worth setting up to make them...
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #89 on: October 18, 2012, 08:54:40 PM »
 Does this look interesting?
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #90 on: October 18, 2012, 08:56:21 PM »
Like this..
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #91 on: October 19, 2012, 01:03:30 AM »
love the look of your bike nice job

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #92 on: October 19, 2012, 02:38:42 AM »
Does this look interesting?

What about a lovely "under seat" pipe conversion? This was done by another member here who thought he'd built something unique out of what had been quite a nice original CB750. Oh well.............  ::)

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #93 on: October 19, 2012, 04:32:12 AM »
I know I`m a new guy here and I hesitate to comment but jeez guys its a build thread not a smash and bash contest. Take it out of Oasis`s Thread.

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #94 on: October 19, 2012, 06:50:35 AM »
 Pretty hard to lower the bike with undertake exhaust..top of my tire is about where the frame rail is.
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #95 on: October 19, 2012, 07:48:49 AM »
I had been contemplating getting a bike for a while. On the fence whether or not I should buy one or not. And then I saw your build on BikeExif. That was truly my inspiration to bite the bullet and do it! Your bike is the tits, no matter what the trolls say on here. Thanks

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #96 on: October 19, 2012, 09:35:32 AM »
 Yeah let's  talk about slammed Hondas, that can't corner hard..fine with me...
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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #97 on: October 19, 2012, 10:06:39 AM »
love the bike   .... i think i love the thread a little more though ..  ;D ;D


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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #98 on: October 19, 2012, 11:16:59 AM »
Love the look of the bike and glad to hear you are enjoying it.  It's not what I would ride (in terms of the tires), but it looks pretty cool.

Terry, that undertail exhaust bike is cracking me up!!
« Last Edit: October 19, 2012, 11:18:57 AM by CB750 Cafe Racer Fan »
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)

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Re: My CB750 brat style build
« Reply #99 on: October 21, 2012, 03:51:32 PM »
I just spent a while clearing out the off-topic posts in this thread.  Interpersonal issues and bickering need to be dealt with through PMs, not out in the open for everybody else to have to sift through.