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New Member Introductions / Re: 35 years old the bike not me!
« on: August 20, 2011, 04:08:56 PM »
I like that, just got to drop the front muddy and get a cleaner line on the chop.

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CB500/550 / Re: 49 Miles from new! How Much???
« on: July 27, 2011, 04:17:10 PM »
I see a lot of 70s Jap bikes on ebay, and some of them are super horrendous money, there were a couple of Kwack Z1s, and the sellers wanted around 13,000 euros each, then the original CB750s go for silly money, RD and RG  400/500, RC30 went for an astronomical amount a while back - truth is, for some reason 70s Jap bikes are going through the roof and Harleys are going down like a lead balloon, I wish I held out for a Harley motor when I built my chop as it would have worked out cheaper, mind you my CB500/4 build isn't proving to be much cheaper  :D

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New Member Introductions / Re: Newbie from the East Midlands checking in and doing the do...
« on: July 17, 2011, 03:24:54 PM »
cheers Steve, long story short I guess is - i'm OK with fab work, did a Royal Enfield Chopper/bobber that got some media time a couple of years ago and a 9ft Harley Sporty (current bike) - so I like to have a challenge, the thing that crossed my mind was to get the lower legs of my 500/4 and shave them down on a lathe and tig new brackets for modern calipers?  Then I was told it would be sacrilege to do so, so I got my hands on a set of forks yesterday from another forum member I know, they are 35mm which will fit into the standard yokes but are a couple of inches longer, still need to ID them but for a tenner I can't grumble  ;D

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New Member Introductions / Re: Hullo.
« on: July 17, 2011, 03:01:49 PM »
howdo Nick - i'm another noob in the same boat as you so if your ship starts sinking let me know and I'll give you a hand if I can  ;D

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New Member Introductions / Re: Newbie from the East Midlands checking in and doing the do...
« on: July 17, 2011, 03:00:05 PM »
ooo forgot to mention, Steve did you get my PM on the other forum?

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New Member Introductions / Re: Newbie from the East Midlands checking in and doing the do...
« on: July 17, 2011, 02:58:37 PM »
not sure what it is over on the US forum but itseems all the noobs get passed by when asking questions?  I guess it could be to do with the time difference and the amount of posts, but hey, who knows??

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New Member Introductions / Newbie from the East Midlands checking in and doing the do...
« on: July 11, 2011, 08:32:53 PM »
Hey to you all, my name's Mark and i'm from Leicester.  This is my 3rd bike build in the past 3 years.  The last two builds have been a 92 Royal Enfield 500 chopper and last year I finished a 9ft Harley Sporty 1200.  I picked up a basket case Cb500/4 from one of the members 2 weeks ago and already  started to make progress on her.  She will be a brat style bike (I know I know to the purists) but when I got her she already had the rear frame rails chopped and to be honest not much came with the project so it lends itself to a brat style bike.

I scoured the site for a while and in the past when I was trying to get me hands on a 750 but that fell through  :o  Hope to meet some good folk on here and pick your brains as all mine have feel out  ;D

cheers for now

(ps...didn't realise that there was a UK SOHC owners club) so the introduction is copied from the US one  ;D)

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