Honda-SOHC

I have obviously been unconscious for many years, what year is it now? 2035?,  I remember these selling for thousands less in 2015, that's the last time I remember looking at CB750 prices before whatever happened, erm, happened.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1969-Honda-CB750-Sandcast-Classic-Vintage-Low-Number-Staggering-Condition/131617382743?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3Da1d30d370c634fec9317c87190d62fce%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D131568252385

I rode my CR for the first time today (actually its not a CR lookalike yet, it's in MOT trim, lights indicators etc, looks a bit odd as you can see below!), anyway once it's MOT'd it's remove the road bits, refit the fairing for a final check of fit, then the tank, seat and Fairing go off to the paintists).

First impressions;
Fuelling is pretty close, no flat spots, nice burbling backfires on the throttle down, I'll probably lose that once I've got the fuelling bang on , shame really.
Front forks way too soft, need some progressive springs.
Sounds glorious, took it on a few country roads and it was intoxicating, had to reign myself in a bit  .
It's quicker than I thought it would be, probably due to losing all that weight (the bike not me).
Handling feels pretty neutral but I will wait until I've firmed the front up before pushing it too much.
Front brakes are very good!, I was surprised because I'd read that the dual disc set up didn't massively improve the brakes, that's wrong it definitely does, and no squeals, yet!.
Nothing fell off!, right hand footrest/rearset need a tweak but that's probably me forgetting to tighten it in the first place.
Got to the MOT station and they'd double booked so it's now booked in for 10am tomorrow, wish me luck!!!!!.
PS insurance was £261 fully comp with Bikesure, that is for a custom bike policy which allows any modifications (apart from engine tuning, but they don't class non standard air filters and 4 into 1 as tuning), I couldn't be bothered to shop around and thought that not a bad price considering almost any mod is allowed.

Goodridge make exactly the 12/13mm internal bore reinforced black braided pipe that I need for my CR oil tank feed to engine, its called 210 series, I currently have black rubber cotton reinforced pipe fitted but one of the bends is a little tight (my oil tank isn't fitted in the standard position so the bend required is slightly tighter than OE) and I'm concerned that it could kink cutting off the oil supply to the engine, trouble is the only supplier I can find for the goodridge hose is Demon Tweeks and their minimum order is £40, I only need a piece about 14 inches long so I'm loath to pay £40!, does anyone have an off cut they want to sell, or an alternative?, the main requirement is that it is reinforced so that it resists kinking, cheers Mark.

I have asked this before but can't find the old post with the answer, I want to take the ignition switch off my CR replica but will be using lights and indicators (detachable) when on the road, I have a battery isolator switch so I don't really need an ignition switch, I think the advice I was given before was "connect the red and black wire together and connect the brown wires to each other", please could someone confirm if this is correct?, cheers mark.

This is nice, strikes me you could buy a real one for the same price though

http://www.model-space.com/gb/build-the-honda-cb750.html

Well I thought things were going a little too smoothly , virtually ready for the MOT, but.............. I just fried the loom, the green wire that leads from the regulator rectifier plug and up into the main loom plus the red and white wire that leads to the starter solenoid, both completely trashed with not a lot of insulation left on them!.(quickly hitting the battery isolator I had fitted stopped it getting worse)
You may recall that I said I didn't know much about electrics, well I certainly proved it today!.
I had everything working that's the strange thing, lights indicators, horn the whole lot, all I did today was fit and connect the rear brake light switch, it's not part of the loom that fried (and I had previously jumped that connection with a slave wire just to check that the brake light worked, it did) so I don't think its the cause, I connected the battery to check the brake light switch worked and instantly got lots of smoke!!!!.
Anyway no point crying over spilt milk and instead of trying to repair this loom I want to fit a new one (it was generally in poor condition), does anyone know of a good supplier (hopefully UK)?, I would prefer a new loom rather than salvaged (DK have a salvaged item but it looks trashed, smashed plugs etc).

EDIT, I think I know what I did wrong, I think I may have crossed over the connections when I put the battery on, schoolboy error to say the least, I cant be sure because after flicking the isolator I took the battery off, but I've got an nasty feeling that's what I did, doh!.

So far the headlight works high and low beam & sidelight, all 4 indicators work and all the idiot lights work except the oil light, the tail light also works,  the stop lamp switches work, start button works and engine kill switch, but the horn and headlamp flash don't work, there are 2 wires from the nearside switchgear that I can't find a home for, one is blue/brown and the other is black, see picture below, does anyone know what these wires are for ?, also breaking out of the main loom next to the coils are 3 wires, the light and dark green wires have my original label from when I stripped the bike that says "horn" but the black wire doesn't have a label, it is live with the ignition on but I can't see what it should connect to?, any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers Mark.

Does anyone have a photograph of the wiring inside the headlamp bowl on a 77(ish) CB750, I did label all of the connections when I stripped the donor bike but over the last year some have dropped others have become illegible, cheers Mark.