honda rebel?

tWistedWheelz said:
Don't go gettin soft on me boy, it is still a rebel! Grind, cut, bend, weld, and paint what ever way you heart desires! Don't be scared!
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I would cut it. But I like sparks. And I like having no choice but to go all of the way!

I smell a build thread a lurkin'!
 
Kanticoy said:
I would cut it. But I like sparks. And I like having no choice but to go all of the way!

I smell a build thread a lurkin'!
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Hell yeah! That's the attitude I had when everyone in the garage looked at me like I was nuts when I chopped off the frame for the rear pegs and kick stand which included the stock brake lever setup and shift side foot peg to make room for rearsets. I had no choice but to make the rearsets work if I ever wanted to ride it again. ;)
 
well im going to get it tomorrow morning and ride it back. hour ride on the autoban of michigans freeways. 70+ mph speed limit so everyone does 90. usually i take surface roads to avoid these idiots but the only way to go tomorrow is freeway. oh well.

hopefully ill start a build thread tomorrow.
 
Awesome Mike! Congrats man! I am very glad you wound up with the much more rare and luckily more pwerfull 450! Nice find dude! Enjoy wrenching and riding it, I know you will!
 
Hey Mike, I have a 2-1 can for this bike, I tried to put it on my CM450 but the foot controls were in the way and I wasn't doing rear sets. You can have it for the cost of shipping. It would need paint as whoever painted before I got it didn't know that sandpaper exists. You have to have either forward controls like the rebel or rear sets. It gets rid of the crossover, although the 450 rebel crossover is much smaller and lighter than the CB/CM 450's if I remeber my clymers pics. also I have a pdf of the clymer. you can get them from a link on line. That is a very clean example of the bike. They were built for longer in the UK and Japanese markets so you can get some cool mod parts if you search hard enough. I will get a pic of the exhaust if you are interested.

Cheers,

Maritime
 
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Nice, now start choppin and bobbin, or at least get rid of the dooky looking front signals.

Good deal on that bike. Clean, nothing looks like it will need fixing, just start the customizing to make it yours.

Cheers
 
I am not really sure why, but it makes me happy to know you got it home, and you rode it! I guess it is because we were just conversating about you wanting a 250, then I mentioned the 450, and now you have one! Wow, how often do things work out like that! I feel like that bike was destine to be yours! Cant wait to see you chop it down and reform it into a cool scoot!
 
Yeah I am pretty excited to see this one too Mike... When I heard you were contemplating a 250 I cringed... they are fine for beginners, but for a chop and bob you needed a little more attitude. I am all about wrung out small cc bikes and I love little twins, but the 250 in the rebel is really anemic and any hills would have really sucked. How did it feel on the freeway? I have heard these 450's make the most of the 38 or so hp the put out.
 
yeah im much much much happier i got a 450. how rare!

it felt ok on the freeway, kept up with traffic. but the route i take to work most often is a road thats 45-50 mph with lights here and there, its more relaxed and comforatable than freeway riding.

i took the bike to work with me and man oh man, did i love it! it felt so smooth and nice, im in love.

as for mods, there was a windshield on it when i got it that came right off. im gonna figure out how the seat and fender are and get a nice little bobber fender for it, and a cool solo seat. and im gonna get these guys in 8"

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My wife had an 87 450 Rebel back in the late 90s. Some tidbits I remember...

Ignore the gear indicator info printed on the speedo face, wind it out. They like higher rpms.

Don't run cheap gas, the left carb will get jammed up and they are damned near impossible to fix.

They like OPEN exhaust, Lisa ran Cobra staggered duals on hers, looked like Sportster mufflers, sounded like drag pipes. Baffled with NO packing.

Gas tank is the same as a 250. And a couple 1970s Honda twins tanks fit as well.

The stock seat set is worth as much as the whole bike if it is a stock Honda cover. The vinyl is really fragile. Pop it off, add a Dixie solo or similar.

The suspension sucks. But I do top out at 220ish...


The 250 Rebel is a joke. The 450 is a damned good (if rather quirky) bike. Make sure that whatever you do to it can be undone when you get tired of it. 450s are worth 2-3X as much stock as they are modified. Lisa's gave up the ghost in 99, we sold it in 2001 as a parts junker for twice what we bought it for running. The buyer put almost $3000 into it by the time he had it back on the road.

Nice job scoring that one.
 
yeah, with how clean it is, i asked the guy what gas he was running.

"oh i just put regular gas in it" i just gave him the "tisk tisk" head shake.

i hate that. with how much good mileage our bikes get, why not pay 5 cents more per gallon. its ridiculous.

i put the highest grade available in all my bikes. and with what im doing, ill be able to go back to stock if i wish, but ill get the cool bobber look im going for.
 
mikeadamstattoo said:
"oh i just put regular gas in it" i just gave him the "tisk tisk" head shake.

i hate that. with how much good mileage our bikes get, why not pay 5 cents more per gallon. its ridiculous.

i put the highest grade available in all my bikes. and with what im doing, ill be able to go back to stock if i wish, but ill get the cool bobber look im going for.
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Many people will simply use premium fuel in motorcycles as a matter of practise, but in most instances, premium fuel is NOT required and can, in certain cases, actually cause problems down the road. High-octane fuel actually has inferior combustion properties as compared to "regular" fuel. When you think about it, this makes perfect sense: after all, the whole point of high-octane fuel is to prevent detonation (heard as a pinging or knocking sound), which is caused by a low ignition point and high burn rate of the fuel. Thus, if you retard the fuel's ability to burn, you raise its resistance to detonation. Using these premium fuels in an engine that doesn't generate high enough combustion chamber temperatures to approach the "knock point" will result in incomplete combustion and faster build-up of carbon deposits inside the combustion chamber.

The lesson learned is this: use the lowest octane fuel that prevents pinging in your engine. If you find that your engine requires premium to prevent pinging, you should consider running a couple tanks of gas through it that contain a combustion chamber/fuel system cleaner (such as Techron; more on that in a minute). A corrolary to this lesson is that fuel additives that increase the octane number of a fuel are likewise unnecessary and possibly harmful.
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http://chrislawson.net/kz/techtips.shtml
Not the first (or even 10th) time I've been told the same thing
 
hm interesting.

but im gonna run a higher grade in the rebel, if its common the the left carb to get fucked up from using low grade gas.
 
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