Stupidly overpriced motorcycle for sale thread

Iceman said:
Pod filters and no exhaust past the headers, I bet she runs like a dream.

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It has Mikuni VM29 carbs.
I could make it run right, with or without pod filters and an open exhaust.
The problem arises with pod filters on constant velocity carbs, VM29 are smoothbores
 
GreyGhost said:
Please nobody give him a 750 to send to the scrap heap. That is basically what he has done to the 550. Absolutely good for nothing anywhere.
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Na, he already 'built' a CB550 now he wants to 'build' a CB750
It would still make a dandy sawmill conversion.
 
Nothing like the spray from your rear tire going straight into your carbs.

It looks like a project that hasn't been completed. No front fender, no headlight, no mirrors, no turn signals, bad electrical routing, no taillight, no rear fender of any sort. I can only imagine the wiring mess under the tank.
 
:unsure: apparently the no fenders and guards "looks good" and the owners never ride in rain or on wet roads, there is no wire mess because they chop the OEM wire harness off and install a thing called a moto gadget, which is actually just a fancy expensive circuit panel junction box but also a standard cafe chopper bobber requirement.
GreyGhost said:
Please nobody give him a 750 to send to the scrap heap. That is basically what he has done to the 550. Absolutely good for nothing anywhere.
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Street legal CB750's must be getting fairly rare by now, I've seen an awful lot of them altered into fenderless unridable art projects decorated with pretty lights, digital gauges and thick layers of powder coat paint over old chrome.
 
Iceman said:
Pod filters and no exhaust past the headers, I bet she runs like a dream.

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What? I can't hear you! Doesn't she sound grate!
just listen to all that additional power from the 650 cam :cool:
 
bitzz said:
It has Mikuni VM29 carbs.
I could make it run right, with or without pod filters and an open exhaust.
The problem arises with pod filters on constant velocity carbs, VM29 are smoothbores
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I get that. But I've met a huge number of people that can't properly rejet but still running pods.
These days "carb tuning" is a black art to many.

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Iceman said:
I get that. But I've met a huge number of people that can't properly rejet but still running pods.
These days "carb tuning" is a black art to many.

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There a lot more art to carbs than tapping some numbers into a computer on FI which gets closer to science. The carb on the mini doesn't have an accelerator pump, instead it has a dashpot full of viscous fluid controlling a slide. If you want more accelerator pump, you thicken the fluid, temperature changes the viscosity some. Bleh. Part of me wants to switch to a rack of webers but it is a fortune, a pain to setup and doesn't get you much power.
 
There is an equal number of people that don't know what the functions of an airbox are.


They make mini's run way better, they put a BMW K100 engine in it.
 
Trials said:
There is an equal number of people that don't know what the functions of an airbox are.


They make mini's run way better, they put a BMW K100 engine in it.
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An airbox is the thing you take off to make a bike run worse and look better.

No. Lots of engine swaps are available for minis (VTEC, Busa, etc). No. I intentionally bought a crotchety old british car. If I wanted a BMW I would have bought a BMW. My only concession to modernity is getting one with 12" wheels so I could have reasonably affordable front discs, the front drum brakes were scary and real Cooper S was way more money than I wanted to have tied up in a toy.
 
I'm in the camp that is afraid of carbs... I've only owned FI bikes, and there are a lot of bikes that I admire that have carbs, so I just stay away.

When I started riding a friend of mine got a carbed bike, it didn't run for 2 seasons, he gave up fiddling with it and just got out of riding lol
 
ScorpionT16 said:
I'm in the camp that is afraid of carbs... I've only owned FI bikes, and there are a lot of bikes that I admire that have carbs, so I just stay away.

When I started riding a friend of mine got a carbed bike, it didn't run for 2 seasons, he gave up fiddling with it and just got out of riding lol
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The upside to carbs is you can do something with them for little to no money. With factory FI, you are pretty much SOL if it doesn't work exactly as you want unless you spend quite a bit on an additional computer.
 
My new bike will have a carb :| fuel is going to be very expensive. Even my wife figured that out already.
 
GreyGhost said:
The upside to carbs is you can do something with them for little to no money. With factory FI, you are pretty much SOL if it doesn't work exactly as you want unless you spend quite a bit on an additional computer.
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Which is one reason i got rid of the Ossa.Worked awesome when setup properly (very time consuming) with the factory cables,battery,software and laptop.All of which should have been supplied with the purchase of the bike,or made easily obtainable and affordable.
 
GreyGhost said:
Does it need fancy fuel or you just plan on riding it whenever you are awake?
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Both :cool:
50-50 race/high test pump plus expensive 2-smoke oils
I want to get so use to riding it that it feels like my left ***.

... reminds me of my buddy when he was selling his Beta, the buyer wanted to know how many hours were on it and he replied as many as physically possible.
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