joining the herd

[markmatt]

Hey fellas (and ladies).

Well im here to introduce myself. My names matt but most of my friends call me mattmark, or markmatt. Im from philadelphia and my bike is a 1975 cb500t. it has 8k miles on it and loads of issues but it is what it is. im debating right now fixing it (top end work) or selling it. I am an animator by trade and do some light graphic design work from time to time as well as paint when i hate the time. im an avid gamer and cyclist, but all i want to do right now is ride my motorcycle (which currently is burning oil at an alarming rate).

nice ta meet ya.

 

[markmatt]

woops, forgot the picture. my baby.

 

[krafty]

Nice bike! You could always just tell the uninitiated that it's a 2-stroke.

 

[markmatt]

haha yea. thats the running joke at the shop i hang out at. 1. that it smokes like a 2 stroke out of one pike or 2. that its like cheeck and chong are doing a ride along with me.

 

[vibration]

Nice CB Twin to customize. Here's what I did with mine:

 

[markmatt]

very nice. though i do like the stock seat on the 500t. i may be just keeping my stock.

 

[vibration]

Stock seat is definitely more comfortable...

 

[markmatt]

how do you like those pipes? iv wondered about doing something to get rid of the box between the pipes that yours does not have.

 

[vibration]

I dumped the stock exhaust and bought some CB450 headers in good condition and mated them to some straights (with 8" baffles)...gives it sort of an old British look.

 

[markmatt]

how are they performing? did you have to rejet?

 

[vibration]

Swapped out the carbs for Mikuni VM32s, so the set up was from scratch anyway. Everything is working great...dumped a lot of unnecessary weight, so she's now very quick.