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I'm cleaning and painting my CB175 frame, and had a structural question. It looks like a lot of people remove the welded on "fender" type section in the rear behind the battery box. Does this have any structural implications? Other than visual aesthetics, I don't see any reason to take it off.

Looks gorgeous. Two questions: 1. Did you buy or make the seat? If you bought it, where's it from? 2. Where'd you get the side wing emblems, eBay? Edit: Never mind, I see you made the seat. It's very nice looking...I like the curves.

I'm an idiot. I never thoroughly checked the throttle cable. Where the main cable splits into two there is a plastic housing. The main cable had popped out just enough to keep it suck open a bit. Now I just have to adjust the idle and I should be in business. At least I have really clean...

I just cleaned the carbs again, including the plastic pieces connecting to the engine. I boiled all the internal parts in lemon juice and soda blasted the external parts, then blew it all out with an air gun. Everything seems very clean, the needle moves freely, and all the jets are OK. There...

I recently got a 175 that has been sitting for a while, but is in otherwise great condition. I fixed all the other issues, but now I'm having carb problems. I can only start it with the choke open unless it's warm, then it can be started in almost any position. Once it starts, it revs up to...

After waiting a few weeks and watching eBay and Craigslist, I got lucky with the local classifieds. I called about this $200 '72 CB175. When I went to pick it up, the guy insisted he should give me $50 off because I had to rent a truck. Hard to argue with him :) It had a know bad cylinder...