Topic: Yolanda 2.0 new pretty carbs

[cheftuskey121]

thats exactly what this x-ring chain has. two lips on the rubbers. right here on the box RK shows that their x-rig chain is better (longer lasting) than their o-ring chain. you sure you dont have that backwards? x-ring is supposed to be "better" than o-ring

[cheftuskey121]

well son of a biscuit. my brake switch IS toast. brand new from DSS too. I bled the system and took off the switch, hooked it up to the harness after comfirming that jumping the brake wires on the harness DOES light up the light, and put a small allen wrench in the back to push the plate. nothing. that explains it. I was getting proper pressure, the switch is just broken. fired off an email to DSS, I purchased the switch in Feb, so we'll see what they say.

[Tews19]

Since you have done a very detailed build, send them a link to it. It should help.
Your seat latch has been sent.

[iron_worker]

Do you have the original switch to try?

IW

[cheftuskey121]

I do but I can't find it. Go figure. I'll find it after I get another I'm sure. Learning learning learning.

[cheftuskey121]

still waiting to hear back from DSS, someone here is going to buy my chain so I can get a 102L chain. odd, but it is what it is. I just won a 69-71 ducktail seat on ebay. dont care that its repro, I wanted a ducktail and thats what I'm getting. got it for $245 shipped. tews is sending me the hook latches I need, I may have to pick up a few various parts but hopefully I can put a new "real" seat on Yolanda! best part is its coming from FL so its should be here tues or wed.


in other news!!!
I rode a motorcycle for the first time today at the basic rider course! I feel so accomplished. I mean I guess I feel accomplished about building the bike but I set out a goal to ride and I did. learned how to use a clutch and get rolling without stalling, braking, turning and leaning. tomorrow is the last day, lots more to learn. I am excited. most of you do all of this second nature, but I hope you remember your first time. my first ride on Yolanda will be memorable!

[iron_worker]

Riding a bike for the first time is very exciting for sure! Congrats.

Riding your own bike that you built will be soooooo sweet ... and scary. ha

IW

[cheftuskey121]

Riding a bike for the first time is very exciting for sure! Congrats.

Riding your own bike that you built will be soooooo sweet ... and scary. ha

IW

like letting your kid outside for the first time, all prone to danger and crap. the garage is such a sanctuary. I'm nervous as all get out! gotta learn how to ride her

[Retro Rocket]

in other news!!!
I rode a motorcycle for the first time today at the basic rider course! I feel so accomplished. I mean I guess I feel accomplished about building the bike but I set out a goal to ride and I did. learned how to use a clutch and get rolling without stalling, braking, turning and leaning. tomorrow is the last day, lots more to learn. I am excited. most of you do all of this second nature, but I hope you remember your first time. my first ride on Yolanda will be memorable!

Take your time getting confidence, over confidence or a lapse in concentration  will get you killed.... My wife is still amazed at how much stuff i see whilst driving the car, its from riding bikes for years and expecting everyone to run me down, its not a garantee that i won't get hit,  but it helps you see most things coming. I would actually recommend a smaller bike, something that you can easily muscle around when needed for a first bike, once confident and capable, I would progress to the 750. Most of us rode bikes well before we got on anything as big as a 750, I was 16 when i bought my first 750 but had ridden piles of other bikes as a kid....

[Tews19]

I'm curious about the seat you ordered. I saw that yesterday too.

[cheftuskey121]

thats good advice retro. I am generally an over cautious person. I wont be leaving 200 yds from my house until I have countless hours and hours put into the new bike. I can't really spend any money on another bike, otherwise I would have bought a small one to learn on. I take my own chances with the 750, but know that I will be practicing a lot before I hit any trafficked road!

tews I will be taking pictures as soon as I get the seat. hoping the pan is all lined up properly for hardware and such. I still might purchase a "cafe" seat I've seen on ebay through a vietnamese seller. they are around $300 but include a pan. if they mount right up with the right hardware, it would be a good secondary seat for me to use because its lower, and I can still have an maintain the stock look. that will be down the road though, I am flat broke.

[Tews19]

If you are going with a cafe seat why not make a fiberglass one yourself? You can mount for 5 bucks worth of hardware from Home Depot. Or buy one from the member white orbs for 70 bucks. It may be like 80. There is a nice guillinari NOS seat for a 750 on eBay right now. Buy it now price/ reserve is 250. I will find it and send you a link.

[iron_worker]

I learned how to ride on the 750. The only bikes I had ridden before that were a 50cc Honda and a 100cc Honda trail bike... so no comparison really. lol

You can learn to ride on a 750 but you have to be aware of it's weight... especially when going slow. The height of the seat also works against you when trying to control the weight. With time it will become second nature though.

IW

[Retro Rocket]

I learned how to ride on the 750. The only bikes I had ridden before that were a 50cc Honda and a 100cc Honda trail bike... so no comparison really. lol

You can learn to ride on a 750 but you have to be aware of it's weight... especially when going slow. The height of the seat also works against you when trying to control the weight. With time it will become second nature though.

IW

I would be more concerned with the weight going faster rather than slow, lock a rear wheel in the rain doing 50 and tell me thats fun, especially on a cambered road, slow speed takes balance, faster speeds take real skill when in a bad situation....

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

The 750 is a heavy sled to flick and stop -- especially compared to any modern sportbike -- but it still has enough get up and go to get you into trouble.  Go easy for a long ass time, and get some experience in the saddle.  Get used to countersteering and avoid target fixation (look where you want to go and countersteer).

[Viktor.J]

Put up a picture of the seat Im corius !

And regarding driving and cb750's. I took My driver licens for motorcycle last year in Sweden. And Since Sweden is if not the "safest" one of the safest countries regarding motorcycle drivers, the proccedure to get a licens it quite hard and expensive.
 
This is the test.

One maneuver part with
1: Safety control, checking bearings, brakes, electrics etc.
2:Low speed handling, max 6 km/h. They are quite strict with "clutch & throttle" control, not using any brakes only low revs and clutch.

3:"high speed" handling, 50 km/h.

4: Brake from 70km/h, here the they focus on right braking technique
5: Brake from 90 km/h

And one 30-40 min traffic part where you drive in city center, country roads, highway and all other tricky situations. This is where most fail, they are very strict with handling, placement on the road, how you look and read the traffic, "brake readiness" in when needed, not breaking any traffic rules. Basically the whole driving have to be really risk conscious. 

After all it cost me 19 000 SEK = 2800 dollar, total of 12 lessons and thats pretty basic for what you pay for a Mc driver license if you already have a license for car.



And about CB750's. Yes they are heavy as a stone, and feel really heavy due to the poor dimensioned brakes. That's the main reason why I personally wanted to restore the brakes and fit a second disc - To do what you can
The main thing I AM and WOULD be concerned about,being a new driver, is not really "how to drive" even if that's essential OC. The thing is to drive safe, to keep your distance, to be prepared to brake in different situation and not taking stupid and dangerous risks.
So I would add to the list, Also really focus on braking these bad boys in dry, in wet, with sand on the street, hard, soft everything, driving behind a experienced driver and analyse is moves, and also have him drive behind you and let he analyse you for various of traffic conditions for a long time.

Just take your time and keep calm as soon as you find a open road and rev up the engine it's all worth it

[Tews19]

I never knew you haven't driven a bike before. If I remember we are similar in stature. I'm 5'9 150. I can touch the ground but the 750 is definately heavy when at a stand still. If it were me and I was able to build your class of a bike. I would seriously consider buying a 550.  A beat up runner that you can take time to learn on. Even IMO the 550 rides differently then a 750 in regard to flicking back and forth while riding. But then again if I had a bike look as good as yours, staring at it in the garage daily after a great build, temptation would get the best of me. You have the akills for a great build so if anything were to happen such as you dropping it on a side while standing. You now know you can fix it yourself.

Be safe and any new pics?

[Stev-o]

Chef - you'll be ok, just start working out!

[cheftuskey121]

well I passed my course! it was a 4 day course and it waives the riding test at the DMV because we did the riding test at the end. only one to get a perfect score in the class! I am very excited and proud, I cant wait to use my new knowledge. going to the dmv to get my license on tuesday. going to be lots more parking lot exercises and learning how to handle this 750. I think if I can go from never riding to a perfect score in four days, I can train myself on a new bike. this confidence comes with much caution, so dont be fooled. I aint gonna just ride out into traffic. there is no way I can afford any other bike at this time, I am over my head on this one already. ride what I got. if it breaks, I'll figure it out. If I break, my moms a nurse

I will do an update with a few pics soon. not too much though! thanks for reading

[Stev-o]

Congrats....you'll do fine.

[cheftuskey121]

alright an update with pictures.

finally bought a new (to me) clutch adjuster cover with good quality chrome to match my new chromed covers



bought a scorpion battery per lots of great reviews here. charged up nicely.



frame hook that stev-o sent me that attaches to the front of the lower triple to hold the tach cable in. I had to widen the mounting hole in it to accept the bolt but that was easy enough.





K1 rear winker mounts











nice looking rear end if you ask me. some rust still on the tailpiece but it will be covered by the plate



I have spent too much time in here.....I just wanted to changed that little o-ring behind the hub held in by the 4 stripped phillips head bolts. turned out to be an adventure



I took the shifter fork assembly off, springs and all, and then got that hub off after some pb blaster, heat, and an impact driver. one of the screws had to have a slot cut in it so I could use the flat tip on the impact. came out though! changed the o-ring, and put the hub on with 4 new bolts I already ordered. THINK ahead



then I began to have the most fun reassembling this. I saw the parts fiches, I read threads, I could picture HOW it went together but I coould not get the rear spring to stay properly on without coming towards me and preventing the rest of the assembly to stay tight and flush.



this pesky spring.



see that arm should be pushed back flush but the spring would not straighten itself out and was caught between the arm and the lip immediately behind it. so frustrating. I worked for about 3 hours, almost cried, decided to go to bed, and come back in the morning.







when I came back in the morning I thought it through and figured if I put the whole assembly together I can use the natural force of the nut to tighten it and push the spring out from in between and let everything be flush. it was a combination of controlled tightening and using leverage vertically from above with a flat tip screwdriver (I have one screwdriver with a thin tip that is used for prying anything). I was able to get it just out of the way enough for the force of tightening the nut to push it off and have everything seat. took 10 minutes. how crazy our minds fixate and deteriorate over an issue. all is well there. got my new cycle x gasket on there and new cover on and tightened it down. cool right? wrong

came back to check for some reason (glad I did) and it turns out as I put the cover on it did not seat on one of the dowels properly and crushed it......



Stev-o to the rescue again. got a dowel from him and proceeded to have a battle of a life time to get this out. it was STUCK. lots of pb blaster and heat did nothing. was able to barely get at the edges with vice grips. eventually I decided to clamp the whole thing in the vice grips and did that a few time rotating the grip. eventually came out. crazy. went to put the new one in and the cover on. I could feel it wasnt going. not going to mess up twice. pulled the cover off and realized the chrome plating had thickened and made it impossible for the dowel to fit! go figure. so I carefully filed the inside of the hole down until the dowel fit. problem solved, no harm down so far (knuckles dont count, they get hurt no matter what).

here is it after I finally got it out


 

[cheftuskey121]

moving on, I received my tank trim and popped that on. I am not 100% in love with it but it is much better with it than without. really sets off the lines/colors. I am content. popped the tank on to get an idea



cool POV shot on the gauges after I got them in place.



polishing various hardware with simichrome and steel wool, then a buffing pad on my drill. worked great!



horn. that was cloudy as can be before. I think I still need a new one. this works fine but man is it quiet compared to others



old bullet connectors off



new ones put on



new "ultimate coils" from the pamco kit put on (after I stupidly figured out how to mount them).



long bolts they provide. tank was not fitting with that.



enter the dremel





fixed it right up. then I assembled the new wires and NGK caps. I havent decided if I am shrink wrapping the cables black or leave them yellow. the yellow is growing on me. I love the blue/yellow combo anyway.



power! this was before I realized my tail light wires were switched and the hi filament was always engaged. another duh moment.



brand new sealed beam from honda was $7. couldnt believe it. I assume its good quality



new gauge harnesses and new bulbs. very lit up. easy to see and read



received my oil pressure gauge.



started actually running the wiring after I tested it all. fixed that funky issue with my flasher (check that your winker hots arent shorting to ground!)



wiring done and tucked in!



low beam



hi beam

[cheftuskey121]

I still havent heard back from DSS after two emails two days ago. going to send another. getting frustrated that their front brake switch doesnt work and really need one so I put fluid in and rebleed my brakes etc. turns out I did bleed them properly the first time and all was well, just that switch was broken.

[Stev-o]

Great update, Chef.  Bet you are getting so close you can taste it!
Hope my parts were up to your high standard. 

[cheftuskey121]

ha! no worries stev-o they have worked out great. I just like the "seen" parts to look nice. everything else is a crapshoot. I didnt buy ALL new hardware, just some

anxious to get my chain and seat, I need to figure out how I want to wire this pamco in. read different ways but I want it to be neat and tucked in.