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« on: October 06, 2013, 09:09:04 PM »
I thought that some of you may be interested in my project.
The background to building this bike is a long held desire in me to build a sohc 750 stock framed Pro Stock bike. Any of you who are familiar with this class of bike will know that it is a "full on" class where the bike still has to retain a stock (albeit longer and lower) look ,but where the motor can be tuned to the limit.
I drag raced/sprinted an F1 based bike back in the day in the street class( which was basically an anything goes class, providing you had lights ,road legal tyres, working speedo and rear suspension) with some success.I then moved on through a succession of bikes over the years, finally culminating in the nitrous Hayabusa which I've been racing over the last few years. Over the years I'd often wandered haw far I could have taken the old F1 , so a year ago I decided to find out, and build my version of the ultimate sohc Honda 750 based drag bike.
Rather than base the bike on an F1, I decided to build a replica of the very first bikes which were raced over in the US in the early seventies , which were based on the early K models.
I managed to pick up a cheap 75 F1donor , and have spent the last twelve months converting it into a convincing copy of a K,which took a lot of time, particularly when we found out that the steering head was twisted ,
as well as doing a number of mods to the rolling chassis to bring it up to spec.
Here are some pics of where we started from , and where we are now.
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