The Honducati ....... Finished
- Thread starter mtmooradian
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Thank you, it's getting phase 2 right now
Bolts taken out of my knee.... Have to find a good spot for them on the honducati..
SoyBoySigh
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That gap in front of the tank, if it's not on a perimeter style frame, like an RCB RS1000 etc - I've seen a lot of folks fit tanks like that over on the DOHC forums, and I've always thought they'd make a great location for some custom triangular oil coolers, tucked up tight completing the lines, ideally forming a parallel between the front slope of the tank and the rake of the forks, like the Bultaco tanks and Rickman CR tanks everybody loves so much - there are an abundance of large tanks out there from perimeter framed bikes, with nice wide tunnels from the air boxes etc - not a lot of custom builders have the balls to use one and you've pulled it off right here. And I do realize you've already found a great location for your oil tank. But it's still a nagging empty hungry belly feeling on the front of your motorcycle ennit? (I'll just leave it at that one anal-ogy!) It would also make a really cool location for a finned oil TANK, so long as it's insulated from the gas-tank itself. I've always wondered about those combination tanks with one wall of alloy between the gas and hot oil. Crazy. But yeah, this would be an awesome location for a small tank like that 'cause it would be right up there in the wind where it can act as a cooler while it's holding the oil - Might be difficult to get as much surface area on it as you'd have on a purpose built cooler per se, but a dual-purpose part is a "two-fer" which counts for double bonus points. Some kind of ZX-style forward facing air-box intake ducts would also make a good filler chunk. (Wasn't it the 750 Ninjas that first did that, on a production model at least, back in the early '90s?) Personally I like the idea of the cooler best, as a regular cooler messes with the nice collar-bone area on the CB's breast. What I prefer to see is the stock beeper horn, and the pipes sticking out abruptly, perky if you will. Of course, being a DOHC guy through and through with too many childhood memories associated with the SOHC CB's, I lust after the OEM features of the CB750K more than anything else. the candy paint on a gum-drop gas-tank, the little rubber bits and the chrome trim on the tank, the metal indicator light housings, etc. But I'm not one to simply go out and look for a restored sand-cast when I can simply convert a CB1100F with new bodywork, as a sand-cast tribute of sorts, (((or better still a CB1100R with polished tank sides in a CB450 Black Bomber tribute ... one of these days I'll get around to a CBR based RC build, but right now I'm in the middle of wire-wheel conversions on a KZ440LTD involving a 4LS Suzuki drum and 3x16 Borrani & 3.5x16 Akront rims, NOS belt-drive - AND more wire wheels on my DOHC using again a 3" Borrani and 3.5" Akront -in 18" this time - all the rims and hubs are at Buchanan's right now. But yeah, I wanna do the same job on a CBR900RR next time, or at the very least a 2010 CB1100....))) LIKE I was SAYING - I love getting all mixed up in it and as such I can appreciate ANY custom build and the problems associated with conversions using stock parts from disparate models. This gas-tank thing just keeps coming up whether it's a BMW K model tank on a DOHC or the tank you're using here - and I keep thinking to myself "What IF" - take it with a grain of salt.
Post-Script - I dig your idea with the Titanium screws. They don't hand out a lot of those in the currently knee-capped Canadian Health-Care system (thanks to those TORY sons of bitches) So I don't currently have anything like that to put on my bike. But I've been thinking of saving up a couple thousand of the 8mg Dilaudids they've been force feeding me with, and stuffing them somewhere deep inside the bike, so I can smuggle 'em somewhere that they're worth a lot of money. Just kidding. I THINK. Seriously though, while it's got a much deeper meaning to put something on your bike with some personal history, all of that medical grade shit is some awesome kit for building a bike. Like - picture screws like that buried into some kind of composite structure, a carbon fibre swing-arm or some such - a carbon fibre wheel even - they'd make really great anchors for brake rotors etc, if they had the large paddle screw on the outside and a female fine bolt thread on the inside for the parts to attach. You could put 'em somewhere showy as a conversation piece, but it would do 'em more honour if you used 'em for their strength more so than their "bling" factor. Of course, if it wouldn't throw off the weight too much, you could always tap and thread 'em for some novelty air valve caps. Or machine a mating spiral into some fork cap nuts, and use 'em as pre-load adjusters. Or you could use a thick-walled alloy tube for your handlebars, and use 'em in the ends to mount up some bar end mirrors. Or they could screw down through your foot-pegs and come out at the tips, for making sparks. Lots of funny little things like that. Because you've only got two of 'em and they're a part of YOU. But think BIGGER - is there a medical waste dump-site anywhere nearby? If you could find a whole bunch of 'em they could become a sort of MOTIF....
Post-Script - I dig your idea with the Titanium screws. They don't hand out a lot of those in the currently knee-capped Canadian Health-Care system (thanks to those TORY sons of bitches) So I don't currently have anything like that to put on my bike. But I've been thinking of saving up a couple thousand of the 8mg Dilaudids they've been force feeding me with, and stuffing them somewhere deep inside the bike, so I can smuggle 'em somewhere that they're worth a lot of money. Just kidding. I THINK. Seriously though, while it's got a much deeper meaning to put something on your bike with some personal history, all of that medical grade shit is some awesome kit for building a bike. Like - picture screws like that buried into some kind of composite structure, a carbon fibre swing-arm or some such - a carbon fibre wheel even - they'd make really great anchors for brake rotors etc, if they had the large paddle screw on the outside and a female fine bolt thread on the inside for the parts to attach. You could put 'em somewhere showy as a conversation piece, but it would do 'em more honour if you used 'em for their strength more so than their "bling" factor. Of course, if it wouldn't throw off the weight too much, you could always tap and thread 'em for some novelty air valve caps. Or machine a mating spiral into some fork cap nuts, and use 'em as pre-load adjusters. Or you could use a thick-walled alloy tube for your handlebars, and use 'em in the ends to mount up some bar end mirrors. Or they could screw down through your foot-pegs and come out at the tips, for making sparks. Lots of funny little things like that. Because you've only got two of 'em and they're a part of YOU. But think BIGGER - is there a medical waste dump-site anywhere nearby? If you could find a whole bunch of 'em they could become a sort of MOTIF....
