BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
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BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
https://www.bikeexif.com/honda-cb900f-nct-motorcycles
Hmmmmm Yeah i can kinda get that one. The opposite side though, not so much.
Hmmmmm Yeah i can kinda get that one. The opposite side though, not so much.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Why not?
Maybe the builder prefers building bikes than going round and round in circles on the same bit of tarmac? Each to their own.
I can't say i like it, but then anything using that engine has to be a Freddie Spencer rep IMO.
Maybe the builder prefers building bikes than going round and round in circles on the same bit of tarmac? Each to their own.
I can't say i like it, but then anything using that engine has to be a Freddie Spencer rep IMO.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Jesus, that's shit, what a waste of a CB900, it's well known there's only one thing you can do with a CB900, Freddie replica.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Needz twin cans.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Since I have no fucking idea what a CB900 is supposed to look like and only a vague motion of who Freddie Spencer is I sorta like that
Looks pretty good from the front 3/4, but oddly gappy from the sides.
Looks pretty good from the front 3/4, but oddly gappy from the sides.
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That reminds me, I've been thinking about getting a new anchor for the boat.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
They look like this:Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:44 pm Since I have no fucking idea what a CB900 is supposed to look like and only a vague motion of who Freddie Spencer is I sorta like that
Looks pretty good from the front 3/4, but oddly gappy from the sides.
and can be made into this:
This chap:
wasn't too shabby back in the day:
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Yeah I'll take the cafe racer version over that all day, every day.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Where does it say Freddie Spencer rep?
Freddie is a legend and these days it seems he's happy to turn up to anything bike related, but if you put his name to that monstrosity I reckon he'd poke you in the eye.
Freddie is a legend and these days it seems he's happy to turn up to anything bike related, but if you put his name to that monstrosity I reckon he'd poke you in the eye.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
NOwhere, Cheb brought the Freddie Spencer rep into the discussion.
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I can find out what a CB900 literally looks like or who Freddie Spencer is on Google. I just mean it has no context whatsoever for me, so naturally I don't buy into the "waste of a CB900" thing. I just see a bike that looks cool from some angles
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My comment was that the only reasonable thing to do with a DOHC 750/900/1100 engine is to make it into a Spencer rep. That's because I think they look aces. The 'irk the purists' in me thought about getting CB900 tank and bodywork and fitting it to the TDR.
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Same here. I don't care if he's done the "wrong" conversion, because I have no connection to the "right" conversion.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:32 am I can find out what a CB900 literally looks like or who Freddie Spencer is on Google. I just mean it has no context whatsoever for me, so naturally I don't buy into the "waste of a CB900" thing. I just see a bike that looks cool from some angles
To me he's taken an old heavy UJM, made it look pretty and ride better, and that's the whole story.
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The youth of today, mutter, mutter, mutter.
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I wasn't being serious, and I appreciate anyone under 50 will have no concept of Freddie Spencer and Eddie Lawson racing AMA Superbikes, but it was popular in the early 80s.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:32 am I can find out what a CB900 literally looks like or who Freddie Spencer is on Google. I just mean it has no context whatsoever for me, so naturally I don't buy into the "waste of a CB900" thing. I just see a bike that looks cool from some angles
Freddie was the Marc Marquez of the time, he could do things on a bike no one else could at the time, like using the rear brake to control rear wheel spin.
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
Unsure if you can still buy the Duke videos Fast Freddie, one of the best bike documentaries made
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
You can buy them online to download.
I used to go to my local bike shop and buy the Duke videos, my favourite was the Schwantz one, Flick the Beast.
https://www.dukevideo.com/prd1442ED/Kev ... t-Download
I used to go to my local bike shop and buy the Duke videos, my favourite was the Schwantz one, Flick the Beast.
https://www.dukevideo.com/prd1442ED/Kev ... t-Download
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Re: BLACK SWAN: A HOT-RODDED HONDA CB900 WITH DUCATI PARTS
THe more this thread pops up, the more i like it