Zornra
New Member
Hi Everyone,
First post, been lurking on these forums for a while. Figured I'd better start a build thread now that I'm finally starting on my project.
Backstory:
I was helping out some folks cleaning up a storage yard for an auction 2 years ago. One guy had a 1976 cb750F that had been sitting inside a seacan for the past 6 years. Funny enough he knew I had been talking about working on a cafe project so once he remembered it was there he offered me the bike for free provided I could get it home. Long story short, got the bike out of there (and a crate full of extra parts they had accumulated over the years) and kept it at my Grandfather's shop. I intended to start work on it as soon as I finished my home reno project but as soon as that finished I ended up taking a work contract overseas in the Netherlands for 6 months which put the project on hiatus. Fast forward to this spring and I'm back home in Ontario, the bike is in my garden shed (yes that's right, no garage for me, small basement workshop only) and I'm starting my build.
Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of the bike inside the seacan but here's the bike after I got it back to the shop. Extra parts piled up behind it.
He was adament that the bike should run and start no problem. I was skeptical but after getting new plugs, a charged battery, oil inside, and gas in the tank (carbs leaked, surprise...) it started! don't have the video uploaded anywhere but we got her to run. Sounded like it was firing on all 4 cylinders as well. haven't compression tested the engine but that's a future item.
Anyways, the bike was in no condition to take for a road test, both front and rear brakes need to be rebuilt and tires are cracked all over. Bike also would drain the battery like crazy, some electrical short somewhere which isn't surprising given the rats nest of wiring on this thing.
Elected to start the teardown and start building at least knowing that the engine runs
I'll post some pics of the teardown, but here are the two bikes I'm using as inspiration. I want to model this after the ultra noir feature on bike exif for styling. I do have the 78 tank in good condition so that's a plus! However, since this is my first bike build I'm not going to go crazy on mods. That means no gsxr front end for me, going to stick with stock forks. I love the spoked look so going to try and salvage these rims/spokes and get them blacked out. Also using the hookie co. Aldedo bike as inspiration since I love how they kept alot of stock components on the front end like the top triple and forks.
Thanks all! stay tuned. Since I'm now working in a non-heated shed I have the next 6 months to get this wrapped up before winter hits. Hoping to at least get it on the road once before then.
First post, been lurking on these forums for a while. Figured I'd better start a build thread now that I'm finally starting on my project.
Backstory:
I was helping out some folks cleaning up a storage yard for an auction 2 years ago. One guy had a 1976 cb750F that had been sitting inside a seacan for the past 6 years. Funny enough he knew I had been talking about working on a cafe project so once he remembered it was there he offered me the bike for free provided I could get it home. Long story short, got the bike out of there (and a crate full of extra parts they had accumulated over the years) and kept it at my Grandfather's shop. I intended to start work on it as soon as I finished my home reno project but as soon as that finished I ended up taking a work contract overseas in the Netherlands for 6 months which put the project on hiatus. Fast forward to this spring and I'm back home in Ontario, the bike is in my garden shed (yes that's right, no garage for me, small basement workshop only) and I'm starting my build.
Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of the bike inside the seacan but here's the bike after I got it back to the shop. Extra parts piled up behind it.
He was adament that the bike should run and start no problem. I was skeptical but after getting new plugs, a charged battery, oil inside, and gas in the tank (carbs leaked, surprise...) it started! don't have the video uploaded anywhere but we got her to run. Sounded like it was firing on all 4 cylinders as well. haven't compression tested the engine but that's a future item.
Anyways, the bike was in no condition to take for a road test, both front and rear brakes need to be rebuilt and tires are cracked all over. Bike also would drain the battery like crazy, some electrical short somewhere which isn't surprising given the rats nest of wiring on this thing.
Elected to start the teardown and start building at least knowing that the engine runs
I'll post some pics of the teardown, but here are the two bikes I'm using as inspiration. I want to model this after the ultra noir feature on bike exif for styling. I do have the 78 tank in good condition so that's a plus! However, since this is my first bike build I'm not going to go crazy on mods. That means no gsxr front end for me, going to stick with stock forks. I love the spoked look so going to try and salvage these rims/spokes and get them blacked out. Also using the hookie co. Aldedo bike as inspiration since I love how they kept alot of stock components on the front end like the top triple and forks.
Thanks all! stay tuned. Since I'm now working in a non-heated shed I have the next 6 months to get this wrapped up before winter hits. Hoping to at least get it on the road once before then.