Here you go SgtSlag

[Nails]

https://albuquerque.craigslist.org/mcy/ ... 28211.html

1975 Honda super sport 750cc - $500 (Sandia park)

1975 honda super sport
engine displacement (CC): 750
motor: gas
odometer: 57,735
title status: clean
transmission: manual
street legal

Needs work, some electrical, foot pegs gear shifter.

[SgtSlag]

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[SgtSlag]

Oops! I don't know that I saw this until today...

I miss my '79 CB750K. I mod'ed it for touring: customized the seat into a King/Queen; added soft saddlebags; added a secondary Brake Light LED strip to the trunk; mod'ed Goldwing Lowers to fit the Vindicator fairing; added an oil cooler with a spin-on oil filter adapter which had three ports (two for the cooler, and one for an oil temperature gauge); dual-rate Fork Springs and new Rear Shocks with Dual-Rate Springs. She was a beautiful bike (me, on our first real motorcycle tour, circling Lake Superior, back in 2009); here is a better photo of it. I will always miss that bike -- it was my first bike that I owned, first bike we toured on. Small, under-powered, compared to the Voyager, but memorable, and reliable. Priceless memories riding that bike...

Thanks for thinking of me, Nails. Cheers!

[Nails]

Oops! I don't know that I saw this until today...

Sheesh pal, only a half-year later ... I'm guessing that you missed your chance.

Yeah, I miss my first-gen 750K too -- not my first bike, but the first I did any touring on. I had a 550 Four previously; and I did a lot more touring on a subsequent '75 GL1000 that I liked best of all. (It came naked, when Wings were still a bike.)

My XII has been great but I'm done with the superslab, 1K-mile days that suits it best. I want something smaller and lighter mostly for Western B roads and occasional dirt, such as to campsites ... which I've been doing on the XII anyway but it's really too piggly and doesn't like the bumps at all.

I'm (slowly) building a GL500 with a 650 motor, GL1100 forks, and GL1000 wheels (spokes for an ADV aesthetic), aiming for another short-wheelbase Honda. I don't think this GL will be much different from the beloved K bike, with very similar specs. I'm fine with a compact cockpit. We found a way to tour on our 750Ks, and I guess I'll just see.

And I'll have enough parts to build a couple CX500s, one stock cruiser and the other a cafe scooter. As mentioned, the 650cc V-twin's output is much like the 750K; and the 500cc V-twin out-performs the 550 Four. I like the Guzzi styling, even if the motor has an altogether different character. Back in the day, we were all infatuated with in-line fours; but now these sushi-guzzis are having a renaissance.

[SgtSlag]

Inline two's and four's are all that interest me. V-twins are not my thing, period. I used to think that my 750K was piggish to handle, until I got my XII...

The XII is amazing on the highways, but in town, it's a beast, especially when it's loaded for touring, with full bags and trunk. We put all of the heavy stuff in the bags, and we have a carrier attached to the hitch on the back, nice and low, with a cargo net -- this is where we put the heaviest stuff. We put only lightweight stuff in the trunk, and it is still top-heavy and clumsy. Heck, with just the two of us on it, with empty bags and trunk, it is still too top-heavy and sluggish for our liking. Once she is running down the road, though... Cheers!

[Nails]

Inline two's and four's are all that interest me. V-twins are not my thing, period.

Like I said, the SushiGuzzi's motor is nothing like a real Guzzi ... and by extension any "typical" V-Twin. It's oversquare and likes to spin, more like a "typical" parallel twin -- which is basically just a 0-degree V-twin. From butt dyno on a 20-mile ride, the GL500 (in desperate need of mechanical love) felt more powerful than the 550 I had in college -- how's that for reliable data?

A little more reliable, here's a spec-sheet comparo between '74-'78 550 Four and '78 CX500, both from the same internet source:

- Four: 544cc, 50hp at 8500, 31.8 ft-lbs at 7400
- V-twin: 497cc, 50hp at 9000, 33.7 ft-lbs at 7000

Probably not what you expected.

I plan to use the 673cc version, 64hp at 8000, 45 ft-lbs at 6500 -- and then put on slide carbs and other well-trod mods. And yeah, down on the XII 1196cc, 97hp at 7000, 79.5 ft-lbs at 5000. But also down about 250 lbs; and I won't be running down superslab anyway.

I'll see how it goes before parting ways with the XII. It probably won't be ready until next summer given all else going on right now.

[Conrad]

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