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CB750 / Re: CB750 Super Sport
« on: February 09, 2012, 12:28:22 PM »
Pete, tried to upload pictures.
Reduced them to 250KB and clicked on " insert image" then added them in "attachments" at the bottom left, machine chuntered away for a minute or two then came up with an error message.
What am I doing wrong?

Archie

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CB750 / Re: CB750 Super Sport
« on: February 06, 2012, 10:00:14 PM »
Not a runner Pete. Scared to try and start it without a bit of investigation.
The guy I got it off said the last time he was on it, his left boot was covered in oil so he stuck it in a van, took it home and bought another bike (the VF500). Seems a bit drastic to me, like buying a new car cos the ash tray's full. LOL. Engine turns over with the kickstart though. Am just finishing off restoring my '95 ZZR600 then I'll start the CB750 restoration.
The bike's got a bit of bling on it, ribbed alloy clutch and alternator covers, a clear plastic points cover, a seeley silencer and finned rocker caps so someone loved it at some point. It's also had a rear end shunt in its short life. The rear number plate bracket is bent and the plastic rear mudguard is missing but apart from that, looks to be original.
Anyone got a rear plastic mudguard? Got a brand new rear number plate bracket off fleabay for a tenner.
Think its worth trying to fire it up?

Archie

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CB750 / CB750 Super Sport
« on: February 06, 2012, 09:11:03 PM »
What exactly do I have?
Frame No. CB750G - 1005503
Engine No. B750GE - 1004749
The only ref I can find that coincides with these numbers is the CSMNL site that quotes it as a CB750 F2 Supersport (England) but everywhere else I look quotes the F2 as frame number from 210001 and engine number from 2600004.
Is there such a model as an F3.
The bike is a 'T' registration which ran from 1st Aug 78 to 31st July 79 and was first registered on 18th June 79. The tax disc on the bike ran out on 30th Sept 81 so it appears to have been on the road for only about 2 years. It's only got 16000 on the clock.
Any ideas?

Archmill

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New Member Introductions / Re: Hello from Motherwell, Scotland.
« on: February 06, 2012, 12:38:31 PM »
Certainly is a small world Steve, it was Jim Moore who came to the house to do the photo shoot and interview for the VF500. I am now in good comms with Alan Seeley of Practical Sportsbikes and have done a couple of articles for him in the mag, one on reproducing obsolete stickers, one on how to re-furb a rear shock and one on how to make a laser wheel aligning tool which should be in the next issue out on the 19th of this month. Yi haw! famous at last. LOL

Archmill

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New Member Introductions / Hello from Motherwell, Scotland.
« on: February 05, 2012, 02:47:24 PM »
Hi from Motherwell, just joined the forum today.
A couple of years ago, I picked up 3 bikes from a friend of a workmate who stuck them in his garden shed in 1985 and never took them out again.
A 1984 Honda VF500 F2 with a genuine 5000 miles on the clock which I have restored ( made 9 pages in issue 3 of "Practical sportsbikes".
A 1978 "T" reg CB750 Super Sport with 16000 miles on it and in not bad nick, and a Suzuki 400 which I wouldn't use as a door stop so I gave it away.
I am now starting a full "nut and bolt" restoration of the CB750 and having never owned one, I have a million and one questions to ask so I look forward to talking to you guy's for some expert advice.

All the best
Archmill

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