# 1975 Honda CB550 cafe bike build! **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [January 17, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/1975-honda-cb550-cafe-bike-build/61505 "2009-01-17T16:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 202
**Author:** ![focusinprogress](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/focusinprogress/32/7227_2.png) [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/1975-honda-cb550-cafe-bike-build/61505/202 "2012-07-18T06:28:02Z")
> [@newman](#): > > How’d you make out with the carbs? To quote myself from last night from the Tea Leaf thread… > [@«OFFICIAL» NYSpeed Weekly Meet! Tuesdays: Food Truck Tues -\> Cruise to Tea Leaf Cafe](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-nyspeed-weekly-meet-tuesdays-food-truck-tues-cruise-to-tea-leaf-cafe/214471/534): > > the motherfucker wont run. I think there are battery gnomes… after spending three days cleaning/rebuilding carbs and shit, the fucking battery didnt have enough juice in it to start. FUCKING FUCK! I have 37hrs from right now until I’m supposed to leave for Vintage Motorcycle days and my bike is being a MOTHERFUCKER. I have the battery on charge overnight…so tomorrow either it will have over-charged and blown the fuck up eliminating all my issues and wrecking my vacation plans, or it will run and I can smile for once. fucker. I was pretty heated last night. Got up early this morning and figured out that my new pilot jets work they way they should and I can’t use choke when it’s this warm out or the bike floods…managed to get it running and rode it around the neighborhood. everything up to 3/4 throttle feels great…I’m still not convinced the 120 mains I just put in are enough still… going to get the bike warm with a quick ride after work and then try sync’ing the carbs and see how it is after that. It’s rideable, its running better than when I broke the carbs down, it just still doesnt pull very good at WOT; in my opinion there should be more oomph up top. we’ll see I guess. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/1975-honda-cb550-cafe-bike-build/61505)._