Tag: CB750

Here’s a little more cardboard aided design. The model and the flat sheet for the electrics box. And here’s the box in the frame. Still a lot of tweaks and connections to make, but it’s in there nonetheless. Session time: 4 hrs. Total time: 37 hrs.

I got the turn signals, tail light, and headlight bolted up. Here’s the back: Here’s the front. You can kind of see the AL brackets that I fabbed up to mount the headlight. I’ve also starting to think more about the battery box and such. Thinking that it will be about the profile of the…

My bit of AL plate arrived today (courtesy of Amazon Supply), so I started on the dash. I started with a scrap of AL to experiment on the mounting around the ignition and the top triple. Then it’s on to transferring to the main plate … In other news, the battery arrived too. You can…

Here’s the rear fender chopped and shaped. Will look a lot better with the seat on it. Got a lot of time in, with little visible progress. Session time: 3 hrs. Total time: 28 hrs.

Cardboard Aided Design

The seat pan went to the upholsterer and the tank went to the painter today. Both are thinking around 3 weeks. The triples and the frame were faster than estimated, so maybe these will miraculously happen sooner. Not betting on it. I’m trying hard to use local, independent vendors for this work, and have been…

So the seat from Dime City arrived today. I was very stoked, until I set the seat pan on the bike and saw that the tail-light cut-out hits right on the cross-brace of the frame. No pics, but lots of whining. DCC will take the seat back, and now I’m thinking of just having someplace…

Between grandparents here and other things, I managed to sneak in a solid 7 hrs of work on the bike (thanks Jen!). I did a bunch of cleaning-up of the motor on the floor. Not jewel-like, but good enough. I got the motor back in with the same lay-it-on-the-right-side trick. Then my neighbor came over…

The triples arrived yesterday! I couldn’t help but pop them on the frame for a look-see. OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD! So HAWT! I had to take them off to get the motor in, etc. but you can see some pics about how will shape up. I did have to cut off the old top fork stop – they…

I’ve been thinking about dashboards. The new front-end doesn’t have a normal mechanical speedo post. So, that left me with a few choices. I could use a Sigma cyclometer (they go to 199mph), but that would mean epoxy-ing the magnet onto the wheel and dealing with a pick-up. The other option that occurred to me…