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High Pipes

Post by gbc » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:15 pm

Nothing finer than Honda Scramblers on the first warm day......
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Re: High Pipes

Post by Muddy » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:39 pm

Great bikes, great photos.
Thanks.

Regards

Muddy

'64 C72
'63 C72

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Re: High Pipes

Post by DJM » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:53 pm

Here in the UK I'm still waiting for our first warm day, even first DRY day would be good.

I have an early(small brake) CL77 of my own but I'd love a CL450 to go with it!

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Re: High Pipes

Post by brewsky » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:46 am

NICE!

I chucked a set of pristine pipes from my 1970 CL450 in the dumpster after installing a set of under frame TT aftermarkets in 1971!

Nothing like being young and stupid!
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Re: High Pipes

Post by gbc » Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:21 pm

brewsky wrote:
Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:46 am
NICE!

I chucked a set of pristine pipes from my 1970 CL450 in the dumpster after installing a set of under frame TT aftermarkets in 1971!

Nothing like being young and stupid!
We have all been there and done that. The K5 is probably the quietest bike I have ever owned with the stock exhaust, but I have found I enjoy that for a change.

Another example if we only knew. My Wife loves antiques and we even had a small side business a few years back where most of the good pieces ended up coming home. We have a complete "Lance" jar set with the rack in our kitchen, (they are an old time cookie and cracker supplier here in the US). My Wife paid over 500 bucks for the set years ago and that was a steal at the time. We had the exact same set in a small country store my parents ran when I was a kid. When the store closed I remember helping my Dad throw them in the back of the pick up, breaking every jar as we carried the whole shebang to the dump......

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Re: Another big mistake!

Post by DJM » Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:46 pm

Many years ago when I built my first CB77 into a race bike i sent the original camshafts off to a 'specialist' to be re-profiled.

Cheaper than buying a 'proper' after market race cam which I couldn't afford.

Needless to say the job was complete crap and the profile so bad that it broke one of the exhaust valves wrecking the top end of the motor.

The offending cam went in the drawer along with a lot of other junk, only years later did I spot the letter Y in the flank of the cam, so yes I'm pretty sure I junked an ultra rare CYB race cam. How it came to be in the bike in the first place I can only guess but the bike did go pretty well BEFORE I started messing with it, Oh the ignorance of youth!

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Re: High Pipes

Post by teazer » Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:33 pm

CYB cam was very mild compared to almost any reground cam available in the period or today.

Timing IIRC was 20-40-40-20 @1mm. I can't remember the lift or came dimensions but I have them here somewhere.

I always liked the high pipe look - even on a street CB72/7 or a racer.

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