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Middleweight Stocker Shootout

craz1's 1974 CB550
7 (25%)
CB500K1's 1972 CB500
21 (75%)

Total Members Voted: 28

Voting closed: July 31, 2022, 08:19:53 AM

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Offline SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan

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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Offline PeWe

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2022, 09:39:59 AM »
Difficult to tell which, all are winners.
Beautiful stock bikes.
CB750 K6-76  970cc (Earlier 1005cc JMR Billet block on the shelf waiting for a comeback)
CB750 K2-75 Parts assembled to a stock K2

Updates of the CB750 K6 -1976
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180468.msg2092136.html#msg2092136
The billet block build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,49438.msg1863571.html#msg1863571
CB750 K2 -1975  build thread
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,168243.msg1948381.html#msg1948381
K2 engine build thread. For a complete CB750 -75
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,180088.msg2088008.html#msg2088008
Carb jetting, a long story Mikuni TMR32
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,179479.msg2104967.html#msg2104967

Offline MauiK3

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2022, 07:03:47 PM »
Wow, tough one
1973 CB 750 K3
10/72 build Z1 Kawasaki

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2022, 03:05:44 AM »
Both are awesome but colour alone swung it for me.
C95 sprint bike.
CB95 hybrid race bike
CB95 race bike
CB92
RS 175. sprint/land speed bike
JMR Racing CB750A street ET drag bike

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2022, 03:33:33 PM »
I'm with Sam, colour swayed me, does that make me shallow ?
past-cb100,ts250,cb500,cb500,gs1000,gs650g.phillips traveller
present-CB 650 retro
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           TS185[sold]
           XL125S[sold]
           MT50 (white)
           MT50 (red)[sold]
           KN250/XS400 project
           XR/XL250 bitsa under construction
           SL100[sold]
           XL250R
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Offline Sam Green Racing

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2022, 10:17:10 AM »
I'm with Sam, colour swayed me, does that make me shallow ?

No mate, It makes you a winner if you voted for the gold one. haha.
Congrats CB500K1 on a fine win.

Sam. ;)
C95 sprint bike.
CB95 hybrid race bike
CB95 race bike
CB92
RS 175. sprint/land speed bike
JMR Racing CB750A street ET drag bike

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2022, 08:04:29 PM »
Wow, a big thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. I’m humbled, things like this keep me motivated :)

Offline Stev-o

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Re: Vote for Bike of the Month August 2022
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2022, 07:43:40 AM »
Congrats!
'74 "Big Bang" Honda 750K [836].....'76 Honda 550F.....K3 Park Racer!......and a Bomber!............plus plus plus.........