To shoot photo like one in my previous post there should be a complete harmony between mechanic who do the project and photographer who shoot the process. I am glad that I combine both of them in my very person….
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Hurray! We did it. The pivotal point of the project is achieved and exploded view of Honda CB750 cafe-racer is shot. Preparation of such scene is quite a complicated and tiresome operation. It took whole day for me to check…
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Sorry for keep you waiting for this part of my Honda CB750 cafe-racer story. But as I wrote, sometimes small works took more time than big ones. And there were a lot of those small works to do, not counting…
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Still somewhere in shadows snow could be find, but it will be soon: all warm and green and flowery summer.
As I wrote in previous part of the story, I got an issue with rear rim. The rim has 32 holes as required, but it turned out that dimples have holes frilled under the angles that were for around 10o…
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I begin my story about CB750 cafe-racer wheels from new rims. As I wished to have perfect result, I decided not to paint or powder-coat those pair of rims you may see on all previous photos, but to order a…
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So, as clutch cover didn’t arrived and all other parts were polished, I turned my mind to the next task: wheel assembling. As I used to adjust wheels installed on bike so I had to assemble and install all suspension’…
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And here are photos of polished parts, as I promised. In real life they look a bit less impressive, but to be honest, I don’t satisfied for all 100% only with sprocket cover and clutch slave cylinder. Maybe I’ll make…
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What could be said about polishing? It is 90% surface preparation and only 10% polishing itself. A couple of delta sanders and Dremel are very useful during surface sandpapering, but always a lot of work may be done only manually…
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