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Offline Ravie

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« on: July 02, 2014, 07:03:55 PM »
So, a few weeks ago I put an "extra" car we had on CL looking for trades. The CB bug hit me HARD thanks to a FB friend of mine who lives far away and constantly posts cafe pictures that get me drooling.

After a couple of silly offers (including a guy who wanted to trade me for a wasr AK) I finally got an email from a guy with a 1975 CB750. It's got a different tank on it with knee indents and clubman bars that have yet to have wires run.

It comes with a parts bike and a LOT of goodies, including several nice exhausts.

My plan is to tear the good bike down completely over the rest of this summer into winter and do a full resto/build into a cafe bike tailored to my liking. I'm thinking black and orange in matte for my colors. Just a combo I have always liked. I will likely leave much of it stock but the fenders will be cut down. I like naked bikes.

I will rebuild the engine myself. I've rebuilt corvair engines and jeep engines so...it doesn't intimidate me whatsoever to tear into something. I will label and take pictures along the way. Not really planning a lot for performance upgrades at this point as I am not a very experienced road rider and I don't need a bunch of horsepower. 70 is plenty!

This looks like a real good forum and I'm looking forward to spending far too much of my precious free time here.

Pics once I have it home!


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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2014, 07:45:10 PM »
Welcome.  Sounds like you have a vision and a good plan. Where are you?
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2014, 03:32:54 AM »
Welcome!

You will be just fine, I am sure.

What jeep engines did you rebuild?
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2014, 03:56:30 AM »
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2014, 04:08:08 AM »
Quote from: Ravie on July 02, 2014, 07:03:55 PM
I'm looking forward to spending far too much of my precious free time here.

Careful... the point of no return is closer than you think!  :o


Quote from: Ravie on July 02, 2014, 07:03:55 PM
Pics once I have it home!

That requirement is clearly implied.  ;)  8)
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2014, 04:49:04 AM »
Hey guys-

Stev-O. I'm in Topeka, KS

70CB - The one in the 99 GC I currently drive which is the super-easy 4.0L inline 6. I've got about 13k on it and running great.

Been working on engines and things that go my whole life. I'm sure this will be a learning experience but I'm excited!
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2014, 05:55:42 AM »
Welcome!  Like others say this forum is very useful. I did nothing but researching here to fix my bike which had mysterious charging problem and other issues for the first year.

 Now I just post cat pictures.
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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2014, 10:28:14 AM »
Hahaha

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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2014, 02:56:45 PM »
Hey ya'll. I made you a video!



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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2014, 03:09:50 PM »
Watched the vid, thanks nicely done, best of luck with the project(s)

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Re: Soon to be owner...
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2014, 03:32:48 PM »
Thanks! So far the only thing that intimidates me is wiring. There's a lot of it!


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