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[greaser]

Quote:Jefrs:.....

One of my mates had a CB750 at that time, big, heavy and quite fast but more tractor-like, it could be a bit of a handful hustling it.... I think sometimes we miss the point that a caff racer is supposed to be mid-weight and nimble Un-Quote ............

My CB 750 does not weigh much more the 535GT & quite a bit less than my Thruxton, due to fitted aluminium & light weight bits as the photos show, I use to have a proper Dresda Triton which was "The Daddy" of café racers, but that was quite heavy........
I much perfer the Honda its a dream to own & ride

.....[by the way I don't knowhow to put images on here, tried before but its a pain, so just paste the links into your browser]

[Gwilly]

Parts left over made me chuckle scaly, aside from getting the young apprentice to ask the storeman for a long weight (wait).

It was common practice to add a couple of extra nuts and bolts to the carefully laid out parts of some machinery the poor lad had been detailed to repair..

Quick lad the foreman wants this inspected and running by 4.oopm.. Would be nearly in tears trying to remember where this odd solenoid coil fits..

Greaser i do like the cafe racer, Alloy tank is the dogs dangles..

[jefrs]

The 'long weight' is actually a real thing, it goes inside the sash box of sash windows to counter-balance the frame, paired with a 'short weight' for the other one. So after about 40 minutes the lad is given a pair of theses things to carry back. And to return to stores a few days later for the next victim. None of the works buildings had sash window so these were only stocked for the apprentices



Greaser, you have a really nice modified bike. On my mate's stock one in the late 70s you sat bolt upright, first of the super-bikes, it was certainly powerful but you couldn't fling it left-right like the smaller stuff.

One of my other mates had a Triton in the early 70s, he'd run his ancient Dommie through a low brick wall and ripped the engine in two, so he fitted a 5TA, it wasn't all that quick and looked like a rat bike. Apprentice lad he was, couldn't afford much.

[Bullet Whisperer]

CB750, first of the superbikes? After the Trident / Rocket 3, maybe.

[jefrs]

Yeah they came out around the same time but it was the Honda that got called a superbike, the earlier Commando didn't get called a superbike did it. The name, retrospectively, ok. They raced well but I seem to remember road bikes getting low-compression con-rods for some reason.

[Bullet Whisperer]

My Trident [1974 T150V] came to me in 1982 in fairly standard 750 form. There wasn't much in it, but my Triple could accelerate faster, corner faster and had a higher top speed than my mate's CB750K6, from 1976. We occasionally swapped bikes on ride outs and the Trident always came out on top, but was more expensive to run on fuel and tyres - 800 miles was about all I could get from a TT100 on the rear, but you don't keep a dog and bark yourself ! The Honda was more refined, but refined doesn't do it for me. Regards, Paul.

[greaser]

Bullet Whisperer

if we were all the same life & biking would be very boring...each to their own ,there is nothing like having a variation & choice........Malarin Monro always did for me but my mate preferred Yoko Ono...oh no oh no

[Scalyback]

You sure that wasn't supposed to say Mandarin Munroe?

[greaser]

Mandarin Monroe who's she ? ha ha

Definitely not a dreamer & i almost always get what I set my mind on, unfortunately Miss Monroe was dead before I was old enough to get to her,although I have to say I am very lucky my other half is very close.

[Scalyback]

I guess you fell into that one, I think you meant to put 'Marilyn' instead of Malaryn in the first post?