What a concept - A Girl Bringing Back Her 1966 Super Hawk

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:42 pm

G-Man wrote:Yes I saw the CB750 - a sort of pre-sandcast sandcast and the only one in captivity. Not sure I would fork out that sort of cash fro a pre-production museum piece. I don't mind looking at it but I'd like someone else to take care of it. You could have a lot of fun for 120 grand...

My friend had a Kawasaki H2 and I made the mistake of going for a ride on the back with him. I pretty much thought that I was going to die that day.

When my buddie saw my 400/4 post restoration he had to have one. I bought a frame with registration and we set about building him one entirely out of parts from swap meets and a few NOS parts from David Silver. The most annoying thing was that it turned out nicer than mine.....

G

Two hard-ons now.......

I remember a guy living local to me in Southampton in late 1970 had a road-going Kwakker H1R -- the one with all the black bits instead of chrome; what a sound it had! This was just before I got street legal. I could never understand why my first bike -- a James Captain 200 (197cc Villiers engine and 50mph tops) -- never sounded quite that good; it was still a 2-stroke, after all.... The original Crazy Frog, with its "drrringggg-ding-ding-ding".

When I had my first GT380 I spotted a 1972 S2 for sale in the classifieds, so I rode along for a looksee. Pretty ratty build quality, compared to the Suzuki, but I took it for a ride anyway. Fatima, Mother of Mohammed! What a scary machine! I gave it a fistful, in first gear, and it seemed to do little apart from exude a shedload of induction noise; then came the power band. Holy sh1t! I sailed off up the road with the front wheel four feet off the tarmac! No power-on then dump the clutch; it just had a will of its own!! If the Mach IV was The Widowmaker then the S2 was The Willbreaker.

I turned it down, rode home and promptly changed my messy shreddies....

I never mounted another Kwakker triple again. Too bloody hyperactive for my liking.

peter4821 · Post by **peter4821** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:25 pm

Well ya, I ride a 1200GS and at 5'11'' I am on my tippy toes. In retrospect when I ride my dream it feels so small like a mini bike. I ride with a girl that actually hops of her bike at a stop then does a flying start. She also does a seminar on how to pick up a bike. She has the boys gently set down the biggest bike in the parking lot, then she stands backwards and picks it up with her knees, spins around and strattles the thing like it weights 50 lbs.Does size really matter?????

jensey · Post by **jensey** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:09 pm

Hi,

Two strokes, I had a few, still one left in the garage, I have to admit, I love strokers.
My best stroker was a RD500 YPVS, rode it for 30.000 km, sold it to buy a more usable RD350 YPVS, rode that one for 100.000 km, sold it because I had to wrench to much (every 20k km new pistons !). Bought a new, very reliable XRV750 Africa twin (which I still own, has 316k km on the speedo) and still I couldn't resist and bought myself a Kawasaki KR1-s (I still own this bike).

Today, I have a few bikes, and all together they didn't cost me more that that CB750 special sandcast.

Not for the world I would have missed the fun of all these bikes. I doubt I would have the same fun with that CB750.

In the end you can't take anything with you, just your memories.....

Jensen

Here some shots of my bikes (other then my CB72's, dreams and CB450's) :

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:24 pm

Jensen

I'll have the KR-1S. Ringa de dinga ding. I used to hate it when all the bikes on the grid at race meetings were Yamaha TZs. Now I miss them all.

I would really like a nice Suzuki Super Six. such an advanced little bike for its day.

G

sarals · Post by **sarals** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:27 pm

The rear fender is in paint. Finally! I really thought that fender was straighter than it is. It looked great in primer. Now, well. I see every imperfection. Is that a female thing??

Bob750 · Post by **Bob750** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:37 pm

No. It surely is not a female thing. It's a what-kind-of-brain-do-you-have kind of thing. :-)

sarals wrote:The rear fender is in paint. Finally! I really thought that fender was straighter than it is. It looked great in primer. Now, well. I see every imperfection. Is that a female thing??

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:38 am

Bob750 wrote:No. It surely is not a female thing. It's a what-kind-of-brain-do-you-have kind of thing. :-)
sarals wrote:The rear fender is in paint. Finally! I really thought that fender was straighter than it is. It looked great in primer. Now, well. I see every imperfection. Is that a female thing??

The technique that the "pros" use is to dust a dark color (guide coat) onto the primer once you think you have it spot on. When you sand that you will have some nice dark patches where the low spots are. Then is juts a case of more filling / sanding / priming / guide coat until a) you have gone insane b) you give up c) perfection is achieved (a variation of b)........

I have a lot of parts which made it to topcoat then went back to primer because of my "boyish" impetuousness...... :-)

My paint gets done in the back yard by yours truly because I may not have the skill and equipment of the pros but I have a ton more patience...... It took me around five weeks to fill / sand paint my C72 which started off like the lunar surface....

G