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1975 Russ Collins 1000TT CB750 Chopper

Januar 02, 2024

For many of us we all have a certain bike we owned that got away, but imagine if you built a bike in the pinnacle of the seventies chopper revolution and it never got away. Imagine if you kept it preserved for over 45 years and continued riding it all that time. That's what Keith Schupp did ever since the day he got his motor back from the now famous Russ Collins of RC Engineering.

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1973 CB500 Cafe Racer

Dezember 19, 2023

This one is a 1973 CB500 started as a customer build.. he then sold it back to me, and I added my own custom touches to it. I was really going for that vintage race bike look

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Yamaha XS650 Street Tracker

Dezember 05, 2023

We recently did a feature on the crew behind central Indiana's vintage restoration shop Hoy Vintage Cycles and their lead tech Kim Wroblewski was nice enough to fire up his Yamaha XS650 rephased big bore street legal flat tracker and we couldn't wait to hear a little more about it. When you see this bike in person it's one of those things where it certainly looks fast sitting still and looks even faster going down the road but we wanted to know all the details of what makes it such a trip to ride so we sat down with Kim in the shop and got a little backstory on this really cool piece that was the combined effort between him and one of Vance and Hines top flat track specialists.

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1977 Honda CB750 Chopper

November 21, 2023

It's a 1977 cb750, in a santee frame, with a 14 over Springer that was pieced together. It's got a 19" invader front wheel and a Henry Abe 16" rear wheel. Henry Abe bread box, santee oil tank and electrical box. I made the bars and controls and the exhaust.

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Double Feature: CBX + CB1100F

November 07, 2023

In the era of late 1970’s to early 80’s superbikes Honda was leading the way by continuing to improve on their innovative designs. In 1980 Honda released the CB900F using a race inspired 901cc DOHC engine (which was a step above the previously released dohc CB750F) with its longer stroke and hotter cams which made 84BHP @ 8500RPM, offered in the USA only in 1981-1982. Then in 1983 Honda released the bike to trump both of the previous models, the CB1100F. Using hotter cams, larger pistons, and redesigned combustion the CB1100F produced 108BHP @ 8500RPM. Honda also increased the rake and added a 1/4 fairing for a bit of wind deflection and style. These 1100F were the pinnacle of the Honda motors company at the time and the only other bike to really rival it in that era in terms of notability and impressive looks would have certainly been the just slightly slower but larger than life Honda CBX.

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