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It starts here. 1974 CB550 that I've had for 15+ years. It runs and rides great, and until nearly 2 years ago was my daily rider. Everytime I rode or cleaned my new motorcycle I could feel the icey stares coming from the other side of the garage. I promised one day soon would be her time for attention.
Plans are for lowered rear, lowered front, clip-ons, hacked cafe seat, knee dents in tank. Also beer drinking, hitting things with hammers and cutting things with angle grinders. And beer drinking.
Engine doesn't need a tear down, so it won't come out of the frame.
All large detail items will be taken care of and the bike will get put back on the road, then the little weekend projects can take over.
All of my pictures will be dark because most things will occur after work and will be taken with my iphone. I'm lazy like that.
Got the forks dismantled. Going to paint the lowers black. New fork tubes and fork seals and gators going on. Look how crusty the tops of those fork tubes are.
Made a template for knee dents out of a beer box. Thanks Busch Light!
Too dark to tell but I went way to aggressive on this side. I'm going to have to build a lot of bondo up for it to look right. There is a massive ripple in the upper right in that photo.
Here is a run I'll spend forever trying to sand out, only to pop through the paint so I get to paint the tank again. Actually I need to anyway because I didn't come anywhere near to smoothing out my knee dents. Didn't realize until I started spraying color. Live and learn.
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