Front Fork Is Off

Finally! The front forks are off the CB750... Without a motorcycle lift the job can be tricky!

The legs need some TLC, and it will be done by someone else! I hate buffing! One of the reasons why I build Café Racer and don’t drive chrome fruit cakes...

Next step is to get an extra brake caliper and disc for a dual disc brake conversion. NICE !!!

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It Is Never The Motorcycles Fault!

Hunter S. Thompson on Café Racers

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. That is why they are dangerous.
You have to be a little crazy to ride these super-torque high-speed crotch rockets anywhere except a racetrack - and even there, they will scare the whimpering shit out of you...
Cafe Racing is mainly a matter of taste. It is an atavistic mentality, a peculiar mix of low style, high speed, pure dumbness, and overweening commitment to the Cafe Life and all its dangerous pleasures... I am a Cafe Racer myself, on some days - and it is one of my finest addictions.
I bought a brand-new 650 BSA Lightning when it was billed as "the fastest motorcycle ever tested by Hot Rod magazine." I have ridden a 500-pound Vincent through traffic on the Ventura Freeway with burning oil on my legs and run the Kawa 750 Triple through Beverly Hills at night with a head full of acid... I have ridden with Sonny Barger and smoked weed in biker bars with Jack Nicholson, Grace Slick, Ron Zigler and my infamous old friend, Ken Kesey, a legendary Cafe Racer.
Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. 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....
A fool couldn't ride the Vincent Black Shadow more than once, but a fool can ride a Ducati 900 many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has plagued me all my life. I am a slave to it. On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME."

Extract from Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson

SEE FULL TEXT AT: http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

Cling On Guys !!!

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Drag Strip CB750

Joker Machines 1972 CB750

Joker Machines really did a good job presenting what is possible with a CNC Machine in this build. All of the really cool bits and pieces like the Trible trees with H-bar clamp, Steering stem nut, Side cover kit, Speedo cable plug, custom Clutch cover, and custom valve tapper covers are just some of the nice features that have been made for this bike. And all the parts can be acquired Joker Machines Webshop hip hip hurra [See link below].

But this CB750 is a bit like a spoiled kid right?! It has all the toys that you can’t afford!!!

The Joker Machine is a nice bike that I think you all should have a look at, but personally I think that it is a bit over the top... It has too much going on.

Joker Machines makes cool parts, they just have to be put together in a different way.

Joker Machines Honda CB750 Parts: http://www.jokermachine.com/onlinecatalogcafe2004.asp?CategoryID=85

私は言葉を理解していない

Ian Barry Quote on Electric Motorcycles

Electric motorcycles: Yes or No?

Yes, because to ignore electric motorcycles—purely because of an obsession with combustion powered ones—limits my imagination of what’s possible on two wheels. I love old bikes but they were once new, trying to out-perform the one before. When I bring an old bike skeleton back from the dead, I try to refine it with technology, forms, and materials that weren’t available when it was made… but at the end of the day, it’s still built within a framework of vintage elements. In the modern bike world, the ‘frame’ of mind is the present and the future, so if an electric engine is what ends up fueling (no pun) a superior-performing and interesting motorcycle, then who’s to say that it’s not part of the ‘perfect’ evolution of a modern bike?

See the full interview here: http://www.bikeexif.com/ian-barry-falcon

LOL

Pioneers

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Rear Fender Is Off

The nasty old rear fender is off, and after some surgery the CR750 race tail will be ready to be put on.

Honda Emblem and Headlight for Sale

The fully functional headlight (without the fucked up wiring) and Honda emblem + fixing plate is now for sale.

If you are interested please contact me at: sub2jazz@gmail.com

How many connectors are needed to make a headlight work?!?

Ok I figure it was not an electrician who did the wiring of this headlight! Removal of the headlight was like opening a can of worms! The wires were all tangled up like a ball of spaghetti, and how many connectors are actually needed to make a headlight work?!?

The old CB750 K7 wiring diagram will sure come handy...

Heat Wrap Is On

Just finished the heat wrap job, and I am very satisfied with the result. Even in the really narrow places I managed to do a decent job.

Heat wrap just makes old and bended pipes look so much nicer!

Toni Elías: 2010 Moto2 World Champion

With his result of fourth place at the Malaysian Grand Prix the Spaniard sealed the Moto2 World Championship title.

Growing up in the family bike shop in Manresa as the son of a ten-times Spanish motocross champion, Toni Elías was destined for a career on two wheels.

He started the year as one of the title favourites in the Moto2 class, and throughout the season his weath of experience and race-craft has shone through as he claimed seven wins, incuding four in a row over the summer period. The Spaniard became the first ever Moto2 World Champion at the age of 27.

Jorge Lorenzo: 2010 MotoGP World Champion

As expected a third place in the Malaysian Grand Prix secured the Fiat Yamaha rider his first ever premier class title.

Jorge Lorenzo is Spain's first MotoGP World Champion since Àlex Crivillé in 1999.

Having battled with team-mate Valentino Rossi and Honda's Andrea Dovizioso in the last knockings, the Mallorcan eventually elected to play it safe.

With Closest challenger Dani Pedrosa out of action due to a broken collorbone, Lorenzo's winning of the title ends a two-year victory streak for Rossi, who triumphed in todays race for the first time since he broke his leg.

Jorge Lorenzo MotoGP Champ 2010?

Following Valentino Rossi’s pace-setting form of Friday, Yamaha team-mate and Champion elect Jorge Lorenzo has registered Saturday morning’s best effort at Malaysia’s Sepang Circuit. Casey Stoner moves up to second for Ducati as Rossi completes the top three, followed by Dovizioso’s Honda and Simoncelli’s Gresini.

With Dani Pedrosa out of action after breaking his collarbone at Motegi, Lorenzo needs only a ninth place in Sunday’s race to seal the title – something he should be more than capable of.

Lorenzo looks like the MotoGP champion of 2010?