Then and now

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:57 am

Here is a picture of my red bike from just under 3 years ago.

And here is a picture I took an hour ago.

Time has been very nice to my bike, she is better looking now than she ever was in her past. She is what I call a hot rod.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:58 am

Damn nice looking bike Ray, after my new cobra pipe gets here I'll post some before and after pics

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:58 am

except for the fact it's red Laughing

nice looking bike

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:05 am

Simply sick Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:10 am

I like them both!

Ray, can you dig up your very first post or is that stuff archived and not for vewing?

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:44 am

MinnesotaF wrote:

I like them both!

Ray, can you dig up your very first post or is that stuff archived and not for vewing?

I can't get back that far, but I am sure someone can.

Thank you for all the kind words people, Tom. Wink

Red is prettier and faster but soon my blue bike will be set up just like the red one with an 1123 motor and a pair of those groovy shocks and everything.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:04 am

the earliest documented post for fasterspider is Sat Feb 28, 2004

http://cb1100f.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1971&highlight=

fasterspider wrote:

canadarox_71 wrote:

I have a 81 900f. Silver with blue, decent shape. I am wondering how much they are going for lately. Has new rear tire, chain, choke cable. Bought it about 5 years ago for 2000. Been stored in the garage in the winter.

Also any experience selling bikes on Ebay. I would like to sell it here in town, but if I have to will put it up for auction.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

If your bike is in good shape ask what you paid for it. Where are you? I have three super sports, one of each, '79 750 '82 900 and an '83 1100. Goto EBAY and it will guide you thru the process of selling you bike.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:31 am

Beautiful Bike Mr Fastspider - lots of TLC there - if only they would get better over time all of their own accord!

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:17 am

Ray that Red bike looked pretty good then, but it is now breathing air from a different atmosphere it is so awesome looking!

Geez my 1100F looked like a serious POS with major possibilities i wasn't even aware of years ago Shocked

I'm sad and glad at the same time that i do not have pictures of when 1st got it and the memories are too much as is , a real mess it was Exclamation

But i do have a picture someplace the PO gave me of what it looked like before the wreck and it don't look too bad in that one .
I gotta find it and put together a montage of my bike Razz

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:49 pm

razor02097 wrote:

the earliest documented post for fasterspider is Sat Feb 28, 2004

http://cb1100f.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1971&highlight=

fasterspider wrote:

canadarox_71 wrote:

I have a 81 900f. Silver with blue, decent shape. I am wondering how much they are going for lately. Has new rear tire, chain, choke cable. Bought it about 5 years ago for 2000. Been stored in the garage in the winter.

Also any experience selling bikes on Ebay. I would like to sell it here in town, but if I have to will put it up for auction.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

If your bike is in good shape ask what you paid for it. Where are you? I have three super sports, one of each, '79 750 '82 900 and an '83 1100. Goto EBAY and it will guide you thru the process of selling you bike.

I told you someone would dig it up, thanks Razor.
If you will notice from my early posts, I filled in my location from the gate.
Even from my 1st post, all I wanted to do is help.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:55 pm

The rapid arachnid writes "I told you someone would dig it up, thanks Razor.
If you will notice from my early posts, I filled in my location from the gate.
Even from my 1st post, all I wanted to do is help."

An angel in disguise beerchug

Hell of a disguise Twisted Evil

Gord (But I recognised him) Jones Cool

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:59 pm

fasterspider wrote:

If you will notice from my early posts, I filled in my location from the gate.

Your location, avatar and post count travel with your profile - ALL posts, no matter how old, reflect the location you have in your profile now.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:01 pm

pontiacstogo wrote:

fasterspider wrote:

If you will notice from my early posts, I filled in my location from the gate.

Your location, avatar and post count travel with your profile - ALL posts, no matter how old, reflect the location you have in your profile now.

I should have clarified that statement and said something like "If you look back thru my 1st posts, you will find no on telling me to fill in my location"
Thank you Peter.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:05 pm

So we'll never really know now will we? By the way, great looking bike!

Hawk Joined: Sep 16, 2005 Posts: 410 Location: Sikeston,Mo

fasterspider wrote:

pontiacstogo wrote:

fasterspider wrote:

If you will notice from my early posts, I filled in my location from the gate.

Your location, avatar and post count travel with your profile - ALL posts, no matter how old, reflect the location you have in your profile now.

I should have clarified that statement and said something like "If you look back thru my 1st posts, you will find no on telling me to fill in my location"
Thank you Peter.

Yes this is true but then again you wern't here to jump on a nubie's ass and make them feel like a turd and unwanted.

There's no telling how many you have driven off of here with you sweet (dickhead)additude in telling them.

Some more of my opinion Very Happy

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:37 pm

Nice work on your bike. I kinda like the stock F look, but I can appreciate the work that goes into making your bike your own. My other ride is a Harley and they stay stock for about 7 seconds after they leave the showroom floor.

What IS up with the anal "post your location its a requirement"? Seems kinda unfriendly when that is the first response to a newbys question.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:05 pm

bmcdonau wrote:

Nice work on your bike.

What IS up with the anal "post your location its a requirement"? Seems kinda unfriendly when that is the first response to a newbys question.

Thank you.
The location thing is an intelligence test, it is to see if one is smart enough to read the directions. But evidently there are more and more pussies riding vintage motorcycles nowadays with very thin skin and when they are asked to follow directions they cry and claim they are being picked on unfairly.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:12 pm

bmcdonau wrote:

What IS up with the anal "post your location its a requirement"? Seems kinda unfriendly when that is the first response to a newbys question.

It's kind of a hint that you violated the 2 min rule*.

Before you posted you did not read the front page in it's entirety.

You did not go through the FAQ section.

I got spanked for it my self, but I claim ingnorance as I am/was not forum savvy when I came looking for info.

People who have been on the site for a while get tired of kindly reminding newbies of the error of there ways.

* The 2 minute rule
Any one coming into a conversation that is already in progress should listen for 2 minutes before adding to the conversation, This helps to prevent the new member from looking like and idiot.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:56 pm

Personaly I think that filling in your location is nothing but a benifit to youself and to others. I have been very fortunate to find another F'er just a few miles away who has a lot of knowledge about these bikes and is very helpful.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:01 pm

Is there anyone else that wants to put pictures of there CB-F "Before & After"? I would sure like to see the metomorphasis that you all have put your bikes through also.
This is not about location, this is about the changes that have gone on to our/my bikes in the past few years.
Please disregard any posts that do not pertain to the changes our bikes have gone through?
My blue bike has gone through quite a few changes also since the day I brought her home from the junk yard I bought her at.

She was red and in some pretty sad shape and then after I finally got her all together, I crashed her.

I put her back together again and this time I made her blue so I could have one of each.

After my CB7/1123 Super F was killed, I took her wheels and motor and installed them on the red bike.

I soon followed suit with the blue bike and made her a Super F also.

Then last year Martin came up with the SMF connection and I installed a Cobra on the blue bike and then another on the red.

Then to keep the changes happening and give me something to do, I took the 1/4 fairing off the blue bike.

The latest mod was the shocks and then all that is left is the swing arm and this bike will be done. {Unless I upgrade my forks, wheel & brakes}

So from almost three years ago to date, my bikes have gone through some serious changes.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:03 pm

Sorry - had to Razz

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:08 pm

pontiacstogo wrote:

Sorry - had to Razz

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Thanks for the levity, that was why I started back into what the thread was about.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:11 pm

Great Thread. Great ideas! Great Mods!

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:16 pm

fasterspider wrote:

Thanks for the levity, that was why I started back into what the thread was about.

I'll play then (someone's got to post pics before Griz does Wink

);

This $260 eBay bike was rescued from being cut up for a trike...

It now looks like this (but not for long):

..and this is my first (and favourite) F:

and she now looks like this:

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:38 pm

bmcdonau wrote:

Nice work on your bike. I kinda like the stock F look, but I can appreciate the work that goes into making your bike your own. My other ride is a Harley and they stay stock for about 7 seconds after they leave the showroom floor.

What IS up with the anal "post your location its a requirement"? Seems kinda unfriendly when that is the first response to a newbys question.

Tradition baby.... tradition.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:39 pm

I want in on this..

Here is my $120 1100 after its first wash

and here is the same bike last year after getting new paint

since then I have added a Dyna and coils, CR carbs, a damper, Raask rearsets, and some other things i cant think of right now. I need to post some new pics soon!

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:51 pm

This is a cool thread. Nice job on your bike Ray. I have a buddy that ran a shop for decades and he had done many restorations, race bikes, and Hot Rods. I was in his shop once taking pics of several completed projects and I took a pic of a box of parts he had taken in in exchange for work on another bike. It was an early 60's Norton completely disassembled. He said what are you wasting film on that junk for. Eventualy the box of junk ended up a wonderful conours quality restoration. When he saw the pic of nothing more than a box of junk, it became clear to him why i had "wasted film" on that junk. It had never occured to him how cool it would be to have a before and after pic. While your bike was nice before you began, it is cool to document it's evolution.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:55 pm

Pont and Moto, your rescue projects are awsome as well, it is so cool to see examples of the work of the guys I have been chatting with. Those St Pauli Girl posters bring me back to a birthday celebration in the early 80's. Way too much fun that night to feel good the next day!

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:04 pm

My Turn
Need to do more internal work, cam chains, valve shims, and possible clutch.
I know the seat has got to go.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:08 pm

kwd wrote:

My Turn
Need to do more internal work, cam chains, valve shims, and possible clutch.
I know the seat has got to go.

What kind of fairing is that in the top picture?