Author Topic: my 1972 cb750 has an italian rear rim!?! (Read 4140 times)

Does it actually say Borrani on it? Should be stamped into the aluminum. When I put Borrani's on mine in 1980, the mud catching channel kind, I couldn't get Borrani in an 18" only 19". I had to substitute an Akront mud catcher for the rear 18".

dave500 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2011, 01:29:52 PM »

Quote from: CycleRanger on August 12, 2011, 07:25:31 AM

http://tinyurl.com/4yufhfr

i just tried that with "shoulder massage"and it hasnt happened yet?

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2011, 01:34:58 PM »

Quote from: TommyT on August 12, 2011, 08:29:27 AM

http://tinyurl.com/632hcv

This is going to come in handy. Too funny.

ZanVooden · « **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:01:26 PM »

Quote from: TommyT on August 12, 2011, 08:29:27 AM

http://tinyurl.com/632hcv

I cant stop laughing at that!

mrbreeze · « **Reply #14 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:30:51 PM »

Quote from: ZanVooden on August 12, 2011, 02:01:26 PM

Quote from: TommyT on August 12, 2011, 08:29:27 AM
http://tinyurl.com/632hcv

I cant stop laughing at that!

MAN!!!!!................This has to be the biggest thread hijack of all time!!!!

jaguar · « **Reply #15 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:14:31 PM »

really never seen LMGT?
great joke.....

Dyrden · « **Reply #16 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:40:37 PM »

http://tinyurl.com/3zgxhh6

dave500 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2011, 04:52:17 AM »

im still waiting for my automatic shoulder massage,,man this internetweb stuff isnt all its cracked up to be.,,anyone wanna google me another beer?thats the last time i try and fix an auto gearbox,i googled tranny and was horrified!!

xsmooth69x · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2011, 06:09:52 AM »

feels good teaching old timers how to use the interweb

so you can hide the tinyurl because you give it away when you do that

this would have been a good trick

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?action=post;msg=1047600;topic=94004.0

just copy the url up top since it dosnt do anything since your using a different url link

{url=http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duhhhhhh]whatever txt here[/url}

just for show i used { } in actuality it uses [ ]

dave500 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 13, 2011, 06:34:49 AM »

only the desperate will click the link you supplied,we had to much fun already.

xsmooth69x · « **Reply #20 on:** August 13, 2011, 06:38:16 AM »

Quote from: dave500 on August 13, 2011, 06:34:49 AM

only the desperate will click the link you supplied,we had to much fun already.

sorry i missed the festivities.....

my response post was more of a educational post

xsmooth69x · « **Reply #21 on:** August 13, 2011, 06:43:48 AM »

but ya even with the links i cant find stuff about my rim other than google

ebay doesn't really turn up anything other than there expensive

is there any special about them other than made in Italy

MCRider · « **Reply #22 on:** August 13, 2011, 08:06:05 AM »

Quote from: xsmooth69x on August 13, 2011, 06:43:48 AM

but ya even with the links i cant find stuff about my rim other than google

ebay doesn't really turn up anything other than there expensive

is there any special about them other than made in Italy

As one of the few that actually had them on a CB750, I'd say its pure bragging rights. They are Italian and hence cool. I ditched mine in favor of shoulderless Excels. The shouldered design is difficult to clean on a street bike that actually gets ridden in the weather. Hence the "mud catcher" monicker.

And as i mentioned, I have yet to have anyone show me an 18" Borrani Record from that era. If you have one I'd like to know. More likely its a knockoff or an Akront, not a Borrani. The front is possibly a Borrani.

They do bring good money in the aftermarket, I sold both the Borrani and the Akront easily too cheap.

dave500 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 13, 2011, 08:10:58 AM »

you said money mcrider,now xsmooth is all yours.

xsmooth69x · « **Reply #24 on:** August 13, 2011, 09:32:20 AM »

ow im not going to sell it i just thought it was weird you would put an aftermarket italian rim on a cb750. i thought there would be a japanese aftermarket rim.

^ i have a shoulder style rim?

754 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 13, 2011, 09:42:39 AM »

You have a 16 inch,
Yeah its shouldered, I hate em but I got a front so I may ine day run shouldered rear..
The Honda Aluminum ones used on GLs are not my fave either.. The dirtbike shoulderless are nice
Why did they use em back in the day/? , nothing else out there..
Back then it was Akront, Borrani, Raedelli.. in the pre magwheel days, its the only thing you could do to lighten your wheels other that changing complete wheel and going to disc rear..

MCRider · « **Reply #26 on:** August 13, 2011, 10:04:50 AM »

Well my record is intact, still haven't seen an 18" Borrani Record rim. But I must say, I'd never seen a 16" either. Maybe they used them on MotoGuzzis in the old country?

Back to the 18"... Dunstall sold a kitted out CB750 with pipes, fairing, rear sets,and ... Borrani Record Rims. I always thought it was weird that they used a 19" front and rear. We thought at the time it was to give the bike a little more ground clearance. But when I tried to fit them to mine, I ran into this issue of no supply of 18"s. So maybe Dunstall couldn't get them either.

754 · « **Reply #27 on:** August 13, 2011, 10:27:28 AM »

Back in the day, it was thought that for best handilng both rims should be same size, Norton ran 2 19s I believe.

MCRider · « **Reply #28 on:** August 13, 2011, 10:32:23 AM »

Quote from: 754 on August 13, 2011, 10:27:28 AM

Back in the day, it was thought that for best handilng both rims should be same size, Norton ran 2 19s I believe.

Well that's what we thought about the kitted Dunstall CB750. But does it really explain the lack of the 18" borrani? I mean, wouldn't it have been better to have 2 18s? Or at least the option? Will we ever know?

I think my 1967 Triumph Bonneville, and its successors, no slouch in the handling dept, had a 18 rear/19 front.

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