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SOHC.co.uk Forums => CB750 => Topic started by: SteveD CB500K0 on February 02, 2015, 05:05:32 PM
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I have looked after this engine for the last 8 years. It's lived in the barn with the (now all gone) dozen or so motorcycles and miscellaneous parts that formed "Nirvana Motorcycles".
It was built in the early 90s by Dave Jupp (of VJMC fame) from a set of F2 crankcases that had suffered from a chain "blow" and various other scrap pieces that were about. It lived in Tippetts Motors showroom in Surbiton until the inevitable glass/chrome corporate refurb consigned it to the scrapheap. No room for this sort of thing in a modern motorcycle dealer.
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/engine_cutaway.jpg)
Dave did a fantastic job. He split the duplex primary chain and half of it descends into the box below where there lives a large electric motor with a small electronic timer. Press the button and the motor ran for about 60 seconds before resetting. A glass mirror case and internal lighting completed the show.
I decided that the engine had to find a new home (not least because the owner of the barn was retiring and wanted to sell up and move to the coast), but had to be sure that it went somewhere that would appreciate and look after it.
Sammy Miller fitted the bill and after a few calls they admitted that they had just completed a new extension to the museum and that this would make a fitting addition to the new exhibits.
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sammy-Miller-new-extension-Dec-14.jpg)
Today, Bill (the curator) came down and collected the engine for the beginning of the next stage of its life...
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CB750-Engine-in-SM-Van-1024.jpg)
(http://www.nirvana-motorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CB750-Engine-leaves-Nirvana-1024.jpg)
More soon.
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Nice one steve , glad it went to a museum
pete
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Plus one with that great
Cheers
Bitsa
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I will keep you all posted on progress.
I feel an SOHC meet coming up.
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Great idea Steve ,i Feel another SM visit coming on.
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Great idea Steve ,i Feel another SM visit coming on.
Never been there is it a good venue?
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Yes Ash a good day out,lovely countryside down there as well, mostly British though.
Good for a summer ride, but watch for holiday makers
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Yep
Rich beat me to it
Cheers
Ralph
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;) yes saw that doing the shows years ago niffty bit of kit
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Well done Steve and Sammy Miller!
Looks very interesting and is probably very rare away from Honda Japan.
Can I remind those enquiring or otherwise about Sammy's fab museum in the New Forest that I'm organising a VJMC, Honda sponsored Japanese Day at Sammy's on Sunday, 14th June. Last year it attracted 300 Jap bikes - many Pre 90 and lots of 'Classics'. Prizes start from £100.00. There is a 'Best Girl Bike' too! Loads of outside seating and grub! We may well have some Jap stands selling possible interesting hardware - you never know, one might spot something they're looking for!😉
Be good to meet some of you there if it's not too far to travel of course, 14th June!😊
Nige.
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about 155 mls each way for me,
but its a thought
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It's worth a trip there just to see the 4-cylinder 50cc engine/bike!
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This one, you mean...
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That's the chappie!
Well done, ta,
D.
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AMAZING NEVER SEEN THAT AFORE.Anyone got a penny for a piston? ;D ;D
Thanks
Bitsa
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On holiday for a week in Dorset, and thought I'd drop in to Sammy Miller Museum. What I didn't realise that it was the official opening of the extension today.
Steve, your cutaway 750 engine takes pride of place as one of the exhibits in the new extension!
I was looking at the museum's 400/4, when Sammy Miller, Murray Walker and John Surtees walked by. They were very friendly and chatty, and John Surtees said what great bike the 400/4 was, and that he used to own one. Quite an experience to bump into these legends!
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Well bugger!
Nice of them to invite me... :'(
Did you get any photos?
Steve
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Thats not good of them Steve should have asked at least.Maybe your not a big fish to them :-[
Cheers
Bitsa
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Well that sounds about right.
When we meet up we can all give them a good old fashioned ear bashing. ;)
Mick
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Must say Steve.
I'm also a bit p..'d off they didn't offer you the chance to be there. I'm sure it was an oversight but nevertheless I'd be cheesed off too! I will mention it to Viv...😔
Nige.
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Frankly that's completely unprofessional. Go and pick it up Steve :-)
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Only if they've refurbished it and put it in a new glass case!