I have a thread over at sohc4.net, but thought maybe you guys and gals would geta kick out of this.
After building two CB500/550's and doing an engine swap in my '71 CB500, I looked around one day and realized I had almost enough stuff to build another bike, hence the name"sweep the floor"; I'll just sweep the floor of the garage and build something!
I found a titled frame and a few boxes of parts on Craigslist. Most of the parts were junk and I only ended up with one box worth of usable stuff. The P.O. had cut off the rear frame loop and passenger pegs, made struts from scrap metal and generally F'd up along the way. The front end was from, I think, a CB/CL350 and the rear wheel was a Suzuki or something.
I had a good running but oily CB500 engine from my '71.
Off with the front end...
...and on with some freshly rebuilt forks from ebay for only $65 shipped. The guy rebuilt them only to find rust under the ears. It's purely cosmetic and I couldn't care less.
After building two CB500/550's and doing an engine swap in my '71 CB500, I looked around one day and realized I had almost enough stuff to build another bike, hence the name"sweep the floor"; I'll just sweep the floor of the garage and build something!
I found a titled frame and a few boxes of parts on Craigslist. Most of the parts were junk and I only ended up with one box worth of usable stuff. The P.O. had cut off the rear frame loop and passenger pegs, made struts from scrap metal and generally F'd up along the way. The front end was from, I think, a CB/CL350 and the rear wheel was a Suzuki or something.
I had a good running but oily CB500 engine from my '71.
Off with the front end...
...and on with some freshly rebuilt forks from ebay for only $65 shipped. The guy rebuilt them only to find rust under the ears. It's purely cosmetic and I couldn't care less.