Found this online after a couple of beers (how many build threads start with that sentence?) -
- after sticking my finger through the rusty gas tank and finding a 25th generation rats (?) nest in the airbox I made it mine for about $250. Lovely guy, and at that price he literally made me buy it. Despite a few...incongruities it looks pretty solid, tank notwithstanding.
1982 CB750F apparently. I thought it was the K model judging by the side panels but as I am starting to learn you should never judge a bike by its covers. The seat looks original but the gap between that and the tank suggests the tank is from a different model CB750. A previous owner has also ditched the stock pegs and levers for a rather intricate forward control/floorboard set up with crash bars - all heading for an online auction site near you soon. It's a bit weird - the bike's an F but from what I can tell has been made to look like a K. Hoping the fact that it's an F (sport model) won't mean it'll cost more to plate here in Quebec? Could be a snafu, hope not.
Anyway, plan is to not do a Rhonda on this one, and therefore this thread finds itself in this section. Amazing how comfortable this bike is in its (almost) stock duds - the seat, the bars - all nice and ergonomically very pleasing. So in the spirit of my newfound desire not to bother my osteopath every time I go for a ride on the brat, this build will see a more comfortable, more sensible and dare I say practical (my 20 year old self shudders while my middle-aged self nods in approval of such mature considerations) CB750.
Of course that plan could all go down the shitter quicker than a fart in a fan factory, remains to be seen.
Any and all input on the F model would be fantastic, as would any takes on why this bike may have been reformatted into a different spec'd CB750 (at least in outward appearance).
Itching to get started. It's going to be green. Very, very green.
- after sticking my finger through the rusty gas tank and finding a 25th generation rats (?) nest in the airbox I made it mine for about $250. Lovely guy, and at that price he literally made me buy it. Despite a few...incongruities it looks pretty solid, tank notwithstanding.
1982 CB750F apparently. I thought it was the K model judging by the side panels but as I am starting to learn you should never judge a bike by its covers. The seat looks original but the gap between that and the tank suggests the tank is from a different model CB750. A previous owner has also ditched the stock pegs and levers for a rather intricate forward control/floorboard set up with crash bars - all heading for an online auction site near you soon. It's a bit weird - the bike's an F but from what I can tell has been made to look like a K. Hoping the fact that it's an F (sport model) won't mean it'll cost more to plate here in Quebec? Could be a snafu, hope not.
Anyway, plan is to not do a Rhonda on this one, and therefore this thread finds itself in this section. Amazing how comfortable this bike is in its (almost) stock duds - the seat, the bars - all nice and ergonomically very pleasing. So in the spirit of my newfound desire not to bother my osteopath every time I go for a ride on the brat, this build will see a more comfortable, more sensible and dare I say practical (my 20 year old self shudders while my middle-aged self nods in approval of such mature considerations) CB750.
Of course that plan could all go down the shitter quicker than a fart in a fan factory, remains to be seen.
Any and all input on the F model would be fantastic, as would any takes on why this bike may have been reformatted into a different spec'd CB750 (at least in outward appearance).
Itching to get started. It's going to be green. Very, very green.
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