Seven Fifty cafe-racer. Preparation for assembling.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The weather grew steadily snowy and cold in the first days of spring. So last Saturday morning I found my garage looking more epic than I left it on Thursday evening. Sure, the look of…
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One more stage of my Honda CB750 cafe-racer project is finished. This very morning I took most chassis parts ready from paint shop. The only parts that weren’t ready today are the outer fork tubes,…
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So, frame was given into paint shop, thus I had to prepare last portion of parts for painting as well as for polishing. These were mostly aluminum chassis’ parts, only few steel details were between…
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