frame fabrication not VMax

[Fire-medic]

My friend Steve has been busy in the shop. Here's a GSXR 1100 Slingshot frame being updated w/a Honda single-sided swingarm, Yamaha rear shock, and an USD front end.

The top shock mount is a billet piece sized to fit the triangulated casting on the inside of the frame. It could have been lightened a bit, but it's certainly going to withstand any load!

An air/oil-cooled GSXR 1100 engine is going in.

And, here's another custom he's been building. if you're 60 y.o. + then this should strike a very responsive chord in your memory. From 1969-1972 this bike was pretty much king of the street, sure, the Kawi two-stroke triples were probably faster, but the SOHC Honda 750 was the bike you could ride across the country on, and have a reasonable expectation of making it w/o breakdowns, or being vibrated/buzzed into submission. The owner wanted to have a bike w/modern technology, and if you've been into bikes for decades, then you probably recognize what's gone into this.

 

[Biker Dash]

Pretty damn good work there!

 

[blaxmax]

I drag raced a 1971 honda cb750 w/CR carbs and a jardine header against a brand new 1977 750 supersport and he could not believe he lost to an older bike.
That honda is going to be gorgeous.

 

[Fire-medic]

Yep, they could be made to run. Russ Collins (RC Engineering) and Terry Vance and Byron Hines all made some hellaciously-fast bikes, with never-seen-before engineering, and then rode the &^%$$! out of them. Probably started more cottage industries than any other bike, until the Z-1 arrived.

I don't think there was much 'special' about the SOHC Supersports, they were mostly just style differences. I do have a very special Honda 750 SOHC-powered bike awaiting its turn to be refurbished. One you won't see on the other side of the intersection, unless maybe you're pulling out of a certain venue in Birmingham, Alabama after an event.

Yes, it's already pretty-nice, you could spend an hour going over it and talking w/the builder about what he's done for the customer. As "Click" and "Clack" used to say, "a real time-waster!" (but not to we who are gearheads)

Here's another vintage Honda DOHC 450 parallel-twin scrambler he did for a customer. The 'scrambler' style always has appealed to me. My first bike was a 305 Scrambler on which I learned how to ride offroad, I sold that after a year, and bought a brand new Yamaha 360 Enduro I raced hare scrambles, enduros, and just messin' around in sand & gravel pits in MI. I still have it.

And pics of one of the 1/4-mile bikes he's building, an elderly Kawasaki air-cooled two-valve J-model, running Schnitz electronics and a big wet-shot of H2O2. Lectrons, and a rear tire that eliminates the need for a sidestand. Something in the neighborhood of 1700 cc...MTC block and a lot of machine work by my friend the machinist.