So my hopes are to make this a start to finish build. Not expecting to be done with this bike ever as with most projects.
Got the bike in Olympia and rode it home to Bellingham stopping at my dad's in Auburn. The trip was roughly 170 miles, filling up before I left and the petcock turned to res by the previous owner I didn't think to check it. Made it 3 miles from home before running out. I reached down to turn to res only to find it was already on it haha. Happy with the mileage though, said good things about the health of the motor.
The idea is to start out with performance/function which should eventually come with looks as well. I figure with most of these threads the idea is more pictures, less talking, so I'll try and snap pictures as I go.
Bike's already had quite the life, 40 years and over 21,000 miles.
What was once a uni foam filter is now just the spring covered by some old socks. Quite proper filtration I'm sure.
Both sides have some poorly spliced plug wires. I realize this is the only way to replace wires on stock coils.
I don't have a picture of it when it was on the bike but it was embarrassing on a cb350 to have this huge sissy bar.
Front and rear at this point have zero dampening. You can see the other side carb's filter was still intact.
Won't need these anyways, but was sad to see them damaged.
Doing 80+ on my way home with the bike, these were the only thing on my mind. The front was about flat when I rode it from the guy's house.
The front spins amazingly true, but the tires gotta go.
Custom fuel lines that would leak, causing steam while sitting in stop and go traffic making me wonder what to do if the bike caught on fire.
Another shot, the carbs were SO far out of sync too. I haven't done it proper yet, just by eye/feel, but when twisting the throttle the left cylinder got quite the headstart on opening.
The miles really show sometimes.
Biggest taillight ever made. Went well with the sissy bar, but both need to go.
Got the bike in Olympia and rode it home to Bellingham stopping at my dad's in Auburn. The trip was roughly 170 miles, filling up before I left and the petcock turned to res by the previous owner I didn't think to check it. Made it 3 miles from home before running out. I reached down to turn to res only to find it was already on it haha. Happy with the mileage though, said good things about the health of the motor.
The idea is to start out with performance/function which should eventually come with looks as well. I figure with most of these threads the idea is more pictures, less talking, so I'll try and snap pictures as I go.
Bike's already had quite the life, 40 years and over 21,000 miles.
What was once a uni foam filter is now just the spring covered by some old socks. Quite proper filtration I'm sure.
Both sides have some poorly spliced plug wires. I realize this is the only way to replace wires on stock coils.
I don't have a picture of it when it was on the bike but it was embarrassing on a cb350 to have this huge sissy bar.
Front and rear at this point have zero dampening. You can see the other side carb's filter was still intact.
Won't need these anyways, but was sad to see them damaged.
Doing 80+ on my way home with the bike, these were the only thing on my mind. The front was about flat when I rode it from the guy's house.
The front spins amazingly true, but the tires gotta go.
Custom fuel lines that would leak, causing steam while sitting in stop and go traffic making me wonder what to do if the bike caught on fire.
Another shot, the carbs were SO far out of sync too. I haven't done it proper yet, just by eye/feel, but when twisting the throttle the left cylinder got quite the headstart on opening.
The miles really show sometimes.
Biggest taillight ever made. Went well with the sissy bar, but both need to go.
