tripped upon this video looking dor ideas for a cb450 chop and recognized the bike and realized who you were!love the magazine and all the work and effort all you folks put into it.hope to get mine in backtalk.
Nice chop job. I had one some years ago ( ''77 CB 750a) but mine was set up as a dresser (fairing,trunk and hard-bags. Fun in a way but Painfully slow on take off! Thanks for the video and refreshing the memories.
You can hear me shift from low to drive at 3:57 on the video, however the second time I take off it's in drive. It's not a like 'drive' is a single gear on a normal motorcycle, you hold the throttle open and the speed will climb and climb. I was up to about 60 mph for part of the video. The bike will do triple digits, I haven't had it that fast, but the RPM doesn't get to annoying heights.
I cafed this one I was gunna chop it but it wanted to be what it is but your right low is zippieer fun as hell on little tight turns and narrow mt roads
I never took my old Honda Matic 400 out of high range for the 3 years I owned it ,low range woulda been good for around town but I was commuting 70 miles 1 way on the highway so I just never bothered using low range at all ,along with the 250 and 350 Sprints I used to own I wish I'd of kept that old honda-matic 400 .
I just noticed you got rid of that God awful parking brake, damn thing drove me nutts when I had my honda-matic, my other bike was a 1936 EL Knucklehead with the rocker foot clutch so when I rode the Honda my left hand grabbed that stupid parking brake at stops out of instinct ,I was always terrified of that little locking button breaking & the parking brake would engage at speed when accidentally grabbing for the clutch, I wish HD would bring back an optional rocker clutch and jockey shift ,I've got other bikes I ride more but the 36 Knucklehead my father bought right before the war is the bike I have the most fun on ,young bikers have a hard time imagining riding something so different ,I'd imagine your chopper draws a lot of 2nd looks as well from young bikers that never heard of an automatic motorcycle.
lots of nice paint cork. does the automatic decel hard or can you coast a while? i was just wondering if it decelled hard youd need to hold the throttle almost constantly???
love the build...building one myself right now. can you tell me what you used for the kick start lever? I couldn't hear it very clear on the video. thanks, Brett
Awesome bike David! I have a 77 hondamatic Trike that I have put the same cycle x carbs and am having issues with jetting. I seem to be running way too rich at WOT. If you don't mind me asking, what's your carb settings on the main and pilot jets? And did you change the needle as well?
Nice ride! Got a q about how the autotrans works. How does it work? Outside from shifting from 1st to Drive, I never heard it change gears. If it only has the one gear, I bet that motor is rapped out at highway speeds (if it can even do that). Just looking for some clarification. Thanks!
The buy on an XS650 base for my first build has gone squirrelly, so I'm considering backups. I see a few CB750 Autos CL'ed in these parts, and wasn't thrilled with burdening a 650 twin with my 200 lb plus arse anyway. If I chop a CB750 will the gains in displacement be countered by losses in the trans?
The manual 750 was a lot faster than the auto. I don't think you would gain anything going up 100cc. The auto sucks up quite a bit of power. That said when I went from a 03 Shadow 750 to an 07 vulcan 900 I couldn't believe the difference. It was easily 2x as powerful, but it was also a fuel injected motor.
