Ha. Sucker. It's a good buy for her. Very clean.trek97 said:1980 CM200t Rachel upgraded.
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danejurrous
Been Around the Block
Tune-A-Fish said:Nice, but that dude sold the wrong bike
Agreed but I didn't have the heart to tell him that
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crazypj
Split personality, I fake being smart
1sttimer said:Just loaded this up. Test rode it a parking lot - thing is terrifyingly fast. I have no idea how people race and control those bikes. Mad respect.
The gent I got it from was super cool. He raced for Penton back in the day - they gave him two race bikes in crates a year and I'm sure he ragged the mess out of them. Neat fellow to talk to for sure. What it's all about.
Oh and he heard that I had a CB175 and threw in a spare motor for free
With a few mods and a decent exhaust system that 400MX will be quicker than a Kawa 420 full on MX bike of around same vintage.
The top spring seat inside frame tube is weak on them, mine shattered and I ended up riding home on a 'lowrider' ;D
Spring can't pass the mounting bolt though so rear end drops about 5"
Barnburner
Coast to Coast
Just picked up this crusty very early CL77 for a bill. Can't decide if I should save it for a later restoration or part it out and quadruple my investment. Anyone with experience with this model have any opinions? Anyone desperately need anything off it?
Tune-A-Fish
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If the wheels are decent thats yer hundy back... I would get it spining and dump oil all over it where needed and push it in the barn till you can find time to play with it, would make a cool town cruiser, people here call em cafe or bobbers, you know the flat board seat things with tire rubber bars in back... one of those but without the tire rubber
CharlieT
I remember the days before there was dirt.
BarnBurner said:Just picked up this crusty very early CL77 for a bill. Can't decide if I should save it for a later restoration or part it out and quadruple my investment. Anyone with experience with this model have any opinions? Anyone desperately need anything off it?
Have a couple of those plus a large stock pile of parts. Have also had half a dozen or so go thru our shop. Depends on a lot of things.....does the motor turn over? If so, does it seem to have compression? What would you want to do with it.....full on resto, rider resto, or build a custom?
it's a dt with about half the power of the mx and an extra 40 lb... i do remember how fast the mx400 was ..at the time and me and a guy from the next town were the fast open class intermediate riders but i always beat him on my 360 bul against his ole husky.then one race at corning mx he shows up with a brand new shiny white tank mx 400 and i will never forget the feeling (i was in first place :-\)of being passed on that long rough dry creekbed that was the back straight ...right when he passed fucker then shifted up another gear, pulled me by 4-5 bike lengths and peppered me with 28 pounds of creek stones ....the bultaco glory days were over :'(crazypj said:
JustinLonghorn
No Purple Hearts, No Blue Ribbons
I have an MX250 lump/frame in my shed. Maybe I should do something with it.
You have my address, right?JustinLonghorn said:
Barnburner
Coast to Coast
Tune-A-Fish said:If the wheels are decent thats yer hundy back... I would get it spining and dump oil all over it where needed and push it in the barn till you can find time to play with it, would make a cool town cruiser, people here call em cafe or bobbers, you know the flat board seat things with tire rubber bars in back... one of those but without the tire rubber
I've seen 305 cafes and bobbers but they're not for me. Definitely not a brat bike either. I like to ride upright with a comfy seat
You sure those wheels are valuable? They're the earlier steel versions not later alloy ones. I guess since they're steel there's likely less around due to the tin worm. Good idea to do a little preservation since I won't get to it soon. I'm in Ohio and Winter will be here before I know it. CharlieT said:
It's missing the kickstart lever so I've tried turning it over by manually turning the crank bolt. It's stuck but who knows how stuck. Looking at the list of missing parts, many of which seem to be the harder to find items (someone probably stripped it along the line), it looked like an expensive restoration. If I decide to keep it I will probably do a light rider-resto. The CL models seem to already be stripped down so as long as I'm not worried about originality or correctness I should be able to get it going just fine. I just didn't know whether it would be one of those "most expensive free bike ever" projects.
Tune-A-Fish
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I got 3 or 4 sets of Ti spigots
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Tune-A-Fish
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No I still use primitive tools :-\
I still use primitive tools :-\
MotorbikeBruno
Over 1,000 Posts
Tune-A-Fish said:No
But if you are able to do the same work a lathe can with primitive tools, that's some skill. Unless it looks like crap. Then I retract my statement.
Tune-A-Fish
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Yeah, I have to measure and cut tubing for this project so no worries, if I need to turn something it's a better plan to sub it out.MotorbikeBruno said:But if you are able to do the same work a lathe can with primitive tools, that's some skill. Unless it looks like crap. Then I retract my statement.
omgwtfbbq!
Active Member
Finally picked up my bike! She's an 81 CB750K with 2230 original miles and almost all the original parts. Gonna get her up to date and ride until it gets cold then start a café build.
omgwtfbbq!
Active Member
If I wanted to buy a standard and leave it stock I'd have a brand new bike with ABS and fancy electronics. I needed a new project after getting a reliable daily with a warranty (that stops me from making that a project) so I picked this up. The CB750 isn't rare or special, but if you'd like to rescue this one from me I'll gladly sell it for $2000 more than I paid
A bunch of LEDs for the 7fitty and engine seal kit for the smoker.
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