Hello from PA

[psubrock]

I'm glad I found this site. As owners of these rare bikes, we need to pool our resources together so we can all benefit from each others knowledge, experience, etc.
I found my bike (#334 for 1990) sitting in my bosses garage. $400 bucks and she was mine. They were unsure of the bike, they thought it was a 600. After getting it home, I was almost disappointed, looking at my filthy small engined non-running bike.
Well, I was surprised when all it took was a basic tune up to get her running, and hours of cleaning to get her looking good. I was certainly impressed by how smooth a 16 year old bike could run. I drove it from last winter until now, racking up 4000 miles. 
Along the way I added a windscreen, center stand, various nuts, bolts, bar ends, levers, CBR900RR shock with preload set to 3. I highly reccomend this mod if you are like me and weigh 200lbs, it actually feels like there is a shock back there!
I have alot of work to do this winter. She needs a new back tire, rear brake pads,chain/sprockets, fork seals. I will try heavier weight oil to stiffen up the soft front end.  I have a nice spare swing arm that would look good polished up.
I also want to take the carbs off. This bike's 1/4 mile is usually 13.5 seconds, I consistently ran a 15.00-15.2 @90MPH this summer. I think the jetting could be better.
Well, that is my story thus far. I look forward to reading all of yours! 

[mrbones]

Hey there!

I like your black bike. Is that a Canadian model? Why is it called CBR-1? I got the CBR900RR shock ('95) on mine, too and it was too stiff with the preload on 5. Yours is on 3, is that better? What compression and rebound settings are you running?

A good upgrade is a braided brake line on the front. It works 10x better.

I checked out your photo gallery, is that a CB750 in there? Check out the attached photo. It's my '78 CB550K.

Oh yeah, welcome to the site!

[psubrock]

I have compression and rebound on the softest settings, I had them each one click stiffer and they were too stiff and the back tire bounced a little. Even with the preload still on 3 and soft I can ride two up with about 300+ lbs and she isn't that bad, if it was a longer trip I would probably use 5 for two up. The bike is domestic, just has a bad paint job. I did some  research and found that decal is from an CBR F1, I guess when it was painted black they thought that decal was cooler. I do have the steel braided front brake line it is awesome.  We took that pic the day we brought my dads bike home. It is a '76 CB750K. It looks alot better now.
That is a super clean bike.

[psubrock]

MB, do you like the kerker exhaust? I have only seen it supertrapp.com for
560 bones.  Go to motorcycles, sport, kerker K series.
For less than that you could buy the can of your choice and fab a s-curve pipe.
If it was on the bike when you got it you probably don't have their dyno sheet showing what the HP and tourque increases are.

[mrbones]

The Kerker came with the bike. I've read somewhere that a White Brothers exhaust for a CB400SF will fit with a little teaking. That might cost cheaper, too.

Check out this article and read the Stage 1 section, http://www.hondacb1.org/reviews-cycle1090.shtml it has some info I quoted below.

"Next came a trip to the Kerker dyno, where the results of Stage 1 were recorded in rear-wheel horsepower. Below 4500 rpm, the stock engine has a slight advantage over Stage 1, but from there the project bike edges ahead, building to a three horsepower advantage from 8000 to 9500, spiking upward to best the stocker by 8 horsepower at 10,000 rpm, and peaking at 11,500 with 50.8 horsepower--a gain of 6 ponies or 12 percent."

I bet any aftermarket pipe would yeild similar results.

I don't know if my bike has a jet kit in it. If I could get a spark plug out I could tell depending on the plug condition. I've been too lazy as of late to tackle getting one of those plugs out.

[Rusty]

psubrock
what part of the burg you in. I am south of you in brownsville. on the Mon River

[psubrock]

I'm 45 min northeast in vandergrift.  We should try and organize a meet up near quaker steak sometime this summer. Wow, my orignial post was awhile ago. I did end up fitting the swing arm, new JT sprockets, new brakes, new rear tire, new oil/fork seals with 15w fork oil, and decided preload setting 5 felt better with compression and rebound still at their softest settings. I'm planning on a set of race tech springs soon