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Offline DME

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Hello from Sweden
« on: June 11, 2014, 10:16:24 AM »
Hi all,

My name is Daniel Melander, I live in Piteå way up in the north of Sweden.
Bought a 1975 CB750 K2 as my first bike back i 1994 (by god, just realized twenty years has passed since...) and I´m still hanging on to it.



Ran it as I bought it the summer of 1995 and then it ended up in the shed as other bikes came and passed. Mainly sportstourers like GSX1100f and sportsbikes like Fireblade, TRX850 etc.

Anyway, the Honda stayed in the shed for ten years, as i could not bring myself to sell it.

Brought it out in 2005 and decided to give it a complete overhaul and rebuild it as a racer.

Wanted to keep a lot of the stock appearence and make it easily recognizable as a CB750.
Stretched a stock tank 6 inches to give it a endurance race look and made the seathump from sheetmetal.
Raask rearsets and clipons.
The stock pipes were badly rusted out so I cut them and took out everything that was rattling around.
Made some glasspacked baffles, shorted the pipes and welded them up.
Sandblasted and painted black.
Rebored the engine 1st o.d. (+0,25) and rebuilt it with new bearings and chains throughout.
Stock otherwise.
Frame powdercoated, aluminium polished in front of the TV every evening...
Rebuild the wheels with new spokes and D.I.D. rims from David Silver Spares.

Came out like this in 2006:







Bought my first house in 2007 and the Honda was put on hold while the house was restored. Took me 6 years to get the house done up and I finished it last year. Sold it immediately and moved on to a new one... Needed to build a garage because the new house didnt have one so last summer was spent building... again  :P

The garage should be finished this summer and this winter I hope I will find the time to give the Honda some improvements powerwise as the stock 55 rwhp is a bit unmatched by its look nowadays  ;) Got to love the powercurve though, straight as an arrow!






Cheers
Dan

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2014, 10:20:21 AM »
Hi Dan and welcome to the forum , I recognise your name and bike from the sohc4.net site  ;) cheers Mick.

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 10:56:47 AM »
Hi Dan.

I remember your bike caused quite a stir on .net when you posted the build thread.

I assume that you still have it?

Steve
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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 12:09:54 PM »
Thnaks for the welcome Mick, and yes I still have the bike, Steve.
Can´t imagine ever selling it  :)

Just hoping that more time will come that I can spend riding and wrencing on it....

As you perhaps remember from .net I had plans to get the head ported back in 2007. Sadly the fellow (P.A. Pettersson) that would do the work passed away suddenly and it all came to a stop. Not easy find reputable guys that has experience of porting an old 750 head anymore. Talked to Mike Rieck but at the time I felt that the cost of sending the head to the US and back again plus the cost of the work would be too much... And the risk of getting the head damaged or lost in transport also put me off :-\

Is there anyone in the UK that you know of and can recommend for doing work on a CB750-head?

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2014, 01:36:46 PM »
I had a 500 head done by Mike and bought a used one from US ebay they had it shipped direct to him so there was only one atlantic crossing, cheaper that way!

Offline mickwinf

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2014, 10:21:34 PM »
lovely bike!!
Love the 500 and 550 have a 500 called Lazarus under restoration

Offline JamesH

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2014, 08:36:40 PM »
Hi Dan - love your bike. Is that you on your own rolling road?

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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2014, 08:40:54 AM »
Well, I wish it was mine but it isnt.
The rolling road is at turbospecialists McXpress - and the guy in the photo is the companys owner/founder Erik Marklund.
The nicest guy, builds and sells 400 bhp Hayabusas and snowmobiles all over the world - still takes time to put my old stuff on the dyno just for fun :-)

http://www.mc-xpress.com/

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2014, 03:56:09 PM »
Hi Dan nice bike you have there, welcome to the forums
pete

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2016, 02:06:27 PM »
Thnaks for the welcome Mick, and yes I still have the bike, Steve.
Can´t imagine ever selling it  :)

Just hoping that more time will come that I can spend riding and wrencing on it....

As you perhaps remember from .net I had plans to get the head ported back in 2007. Sadly the fellow (P.A. Pettersson) that would do the work passed away suddenly and it all came to a stop. Not easy find reputable guys that has experience of porting an old 750 head anymore. Talked to Mike Rieck but at the time I felt that the cost of sending the head to the US and back again plus the cost of the work would be too much... And the risk of getting the head damaged or lost in transport also put me off :-\

Is there anyone in the UK that you know of and can recommend for doing work on a CB750-head?

You might have found where to port the head...
MotoSpeed in Västerås Sweden did very good port jobs on CB750 heads back in the 70-80's and still do it!
I got my CB750 head ported 1983, same head restored spring 2014 by same guy. I have new plans for same head so he will  have more to do.
I can't find a new bike replacing my old CB750

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2016, 06:58:26 PM »
Hi Dan and welcome.

I know that bike so well. It is honestly the reason I got back into SOHC Hondas again.

If you built that bike you are a god in my mind!

I'm sure you will have alot to offer the forum and hopefully we can revert...

Tim
One day I'll have the time to restore it, not just talk and dream....

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2016, 07:48:30 PM »
Now that is one handsome motorcycle.....all credit to you....especially as it still looks good years later.
Now: 2008 CB1300S, CB750K4, 1970 Bonneville. Various other 1960's 650 Triumph T120's/ TR6's/ TR6C's (all in bits...many, many bits unfortunately). Previous: 2007 CB600FA, 1976 CB500 Four. BMW F800ST. GS750E. ZZR1100. CB1300 (2). ZXR1200S. VFR800. CB750 Nighthawk. CX500. XS500 Yam. Suzuki GT500. BSA A10. Various Lambrettas. Zundapp Bella (honest).

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2016, 05:45:35 AM »
Wow that is one nice bike love it

Offline Sgt.Pinback

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2016, 06:51:40 AM »
That is realy nice.

Where exactlxy did you shorten the exhaust?

cheers, Uli

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Re: Hello from Sweden
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2016, 01:40:00 PM »
Love the tank! I've got a set of std second hand exhausts that I am planning to do the same with on my CR750 themed cafe racer - until I save for a set of replica CR750 pipes.
Current Bikes:-
Honda CB750K2 (1975)
Honda CB500K2 (12/1972)
Honda CR750 Replica (1972)
Honda CB350K0 (1969)
Kawasaki ZZR1100D3 (1995)
Kawasaki ZZR250 (1990) Project (Going on eBay ASAP)

 

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