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Offline smashedmelon

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CB750K3 working girl
« on: August 17, 2011, 03:19:35 AM »
This bike has been a rolling project for the past five years. I started out by restoring it mildly as a newbie and keeping it in original form. Unfortunately it was taken down to the dirt by an unsuspected cager (always suspect a cager ;)) and it quickly became a project bike again. Here's how it looked before the crash.
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Offline smashedmelon

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Re: CB750K3 3rd "Morph"
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2011, 03:58:56 AM »
Since I never really formally introduced myself on this forum (lurked here and there) I thought it might be a good idea to give a bit of background info on the bike and share a few things I learned along the way. This may become boring for you.
After the crash I tried swapping out a stock bar for a clubman and found the stock seating position uncomfortable. I also understood that tall riders benefit from rearsets when running a low bar.  I wanted dunstall rearsets and finally found a set, slapped them on, along with the clubman bar, while looking around once in a while for dunstall clip-ons.

There were two minor fitment issues with the dunstall rearsets. The first was that the kick-starter wouldn't clear the rear-set. Turned out that the 77-78F model kick is longer than the K model, just (barely) long enough to clear the brake pedal so I got one.
The second issue was the shifter assembly clearing the stock pipes. Luckily a small spacer and longer bolt seemed to work for a while. Eventually the (copper I think) bushing got torn up, and the whole assembly slants a bit, one of my newer projects. When I added the spacer and longer bolt the two sides actually became more symmetrical with regard to distance from the frame and clearance of the pipes


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