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Offline drillmastertommy

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Re: CB550 Custom Cafe Racer attempt #1
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2011, 12:14:34 PM »
Bottle of Rum, yes. Glorified shed, yes. Designed..... not so much, I saw Freezingprocess' 550 and decided that that was the style I wanted to build, scoured ebay for a few weeks then convinced the wife I could build it within a budget and got the green light. Several months later......

I don't know what model the seat/tank combo from Vonzeti is, when I was looking I got in contact with Bert at Vonzeti and the tank was a new model they were developing, larger knee cut outs and a slimmer tank. He just emailed me a load of pictures and I said "I want that one". Very helpful guy Bert

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Re: CB550 Custom Cafe Racer attempt #1
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2011, 12:29:49 PM »
awesome awesome work!!  yet another reason that's one of the best paint schemes out there!  :-D

those videos caught me off guard at first, i forgot that you were in england, and i was a bit spooked with your crazy way of driving!!  wrong side of the road and all!   :D :D

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Re: CB550 Custom Cafe Racer attempt #1
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2013, 02:57:52 AM »
Nice.

Offline iron_worker

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Re: CB550 Custom Cafe Racer attempt #1
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2013, 10:32:53 AM »
Great looking and sounding bike!

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Re: CB550 Custom Cafe Racer attempt #1
« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2013, 10:23:46 AM »
Great looking bike.   You nailed the color - red is hard to do sometimes.  That darker shade works - looks more "vintage" for lack of a better term.

Well done.   Tasteful and not too overdone.  I dig it.  I went ahead and nominated it for BOTM - hope you don't mind.
« Last Edit: February 13, 2013, 10:30:03 AM by greenjeans »
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