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Offline Laverdaroo

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Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« on: November 06, 2021, 11:18:11 AM »
This months Practical Sportsbike has a small but picture filled double page spread on this little cracker.
I’m not sure if there’s anything I don’t like about it. What a little screamer and fantastic execution. I can only get one photo at a time on here from my phone so I’ll do a couple of posts but this, sadly is the whole article. Enjoy


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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2021, 11:19:33 AM »

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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2021, 11:19:55 AM »



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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2021, 11:20:20 AM »



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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2021, 11:20:55 AM »
Quote from: Laverdaroo on November 06, 2021, 11:18:11 AM
This months Practical Sportsbike has a small but picture filled double page spread on this little cracker.
I’m not sure if there’s anything I don’t like about it. What a little screamer and fantastic execution. I can only get one photo at a time on here from my phone so I’ll do a couple of posts but this, sadly is the whole article. Enjoy


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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2021, 11:21:26 AM »



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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2021, 01:56:01 PM »
I like the side panels..a bit of original patina.

Is that the standard tank, but shortened and with something - electrics?- under a new rear section?
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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2021, 01:59:03 PM »
The article says its the standard tank with an extension on it fixed to the outside to allow for the rider, theres all sorts of gubbins on it. :) 8)
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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2021, 02:30:01 PM »
Very good project,  and loosely from an era that I think brought some really cool bikes.

Honda endurance racer, late seventies one of my favourites

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This one 750 sohc based.
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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2021, 02:34:42 PM »
Replica of the last of this line before honda stopped it, quite similar is the 400 example to this.

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2021, 02:37:22 PM »
Plus a more modern take based on cbx 750 (much of the motor architecture in this came from rcb series racers) to give a very good interpretation.

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2021, 03:04:13 PM »
Man, that CBX is to die for. My kind of bikes through and through.
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1977 CB550F (current money pit!!)
2002 VFR800 VTEC (The Beloved)
1977 CB400F (the last money pit!)
1998 Ducati 748\853 conversion(sold :()
1980 ish CB750KZ in a billion bits (need to get rid, anybody want one?))

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2021, 03:38:42 PM »
Quote from: Laverdaroo on November 06, 2021, 11:21:26 AM



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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2021, 04:33:23 PM »
DAMN YOU!

I have been working on EXACTLY the same fibreglass tank extension idea for my 750. For exactly the same reason.
but I was making mine as a little storage thing to hold waterproofs etc.

I took an initial pattern from the back of the tank.....and laid up a fibreglass thing on the inside of the mould. It;s too wide....so I needed to cut it in half, narrow it...and then rejoin it.
Been considering buying a knackered tank to redo it in steel, but even the ruined ones are expensive.

Still...at least it proves the idea worked, but I have been beaten to it :)
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Offline Laverda Dave

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Re: Fancy a tricked to death 400/4
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2021, 05:08:54 PM »
The 400 is absolute class, up to 65bhp from a motor originally producing 37bhp is an amazing hike in performance. The clutch looks really trick.
Nigel, was the original endurance racer based on a cb750sohc with a dohc top end?
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