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Offline IRISHCBRACER

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures)
« Reply #150 on: October 03, 2016, 11:38:12 AM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 03, 2016, 10:32:23 AM
Damn.  Very cool.  I bet Lucio Cecchinello was stoked. 

Cal C. (not J.) has signed some photos for me at IMS.  He's always a nice guy to the fans.

Don't forget to "accept" the nomination!!

Lucio was stunned at the result, he was speechless when he first saw it.  Rizoma did a photo shoot with it at Austin and published pics on there Facebook page etc.  It was a full Rizoma livery that weekend too which I had no idea before i arrived to the track.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures)
« Reply #151 on: October 03, 2016, 12:20:30 PM »
I should have gone to the track that weekend.  It's only 40 miles from here (and no traffic from this side).

I'll forgive you for ditching your front end with my part.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures)
« Reply #152 on: October 03, 2016, 12:37:17 PM »
Quote from: rangelov on October 03, 2016, 12:20:30 PM
I should have gone to the track that weekend.  It's only 40 miles from here (and no traffic from this side).

I'll forgive you for ditching your front end with my part.

LOL!  That's right! I went a little sideways from using the OEM CB forks ;)  I resold your speedo drive to another project guy ;)
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #153 on: October 03, 2016, 12:57:12 PM »
Dang, that makes the nomination even BETTER!

Shame that the LCR team wouldn't tune your bike for you with all their know-how and fancy diagnostic tools  ;) I suspect with their EGRs, they could have set those 26's up in about 12 minutes flat.  ;D
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #154 on: October 04, 2016, 07:33:19 AM »
Were you allowed to take the bike on the track at COTA? Did anyone ride the track with the bike?

I'm wondering if it is as fun as it looks.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #155 on: October 04, 2016, 10:16:46 AM »
Quote from: rangelov on October 04, 2016, 07:33:19 AM
Were you allowed to take the bike on the track at COTA? Did anyone ride the track with the bike?

I'm wondering if it is as fun as it looks.

I doubt anyone did any hot laps on this then freshly completed bike, but I bet it would be fun!
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #156 on: October 04, 2016, 11:04:13 PM »
Correct, no riding COTA with a packed MotoGP and MotoAmerica racing schedule.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #157 on: October 07, 2016, 08:29:11 AM »
Wow, that's an inspirational bike build for sure! Good luck with the BOTM nomination. Awesome attention to detail everywhere on your bike. Good work! ;)
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #158 on: October 07, 2016, 12:08:01 PM »
Maith an buachaill !

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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #159 on: August 17, 2017, 10:28:18 PM »
Slainte!
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #160 on: August 18, 2017, 08:24:37 PM »
One of my favorites.
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Re: Irish CB Racer 76' CB550 Build (Final build pictures, see page 6)
« Reply #161 on: November 15, 2017, 09:31:35 AM »
KUDOS to Paul.  The LCR tribute bike is featured in the December 2017 issue of Cycle World!!

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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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"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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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold
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