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New Member Introductions / 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
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
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
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