Tactical
New Member
So I picked up my first street bike recently, it's a 1980 Honda CB650. It has 15K miles and I got it for $600
I got busy stripping it down and I replaced most of the seals and gaskets in the engine.
I cleaned the carbs and rejetted them with 120 main and 42 slows and set the air mixture screws to two turns out. Then I bought some K&N pod style air filters.
I picked up a shock from a Kawasaki Ninja600 which is designed to be used w/o a linkage. My plan is to create a bobber that looks like a hardtail but rides like a soft tail. Right now I just mocked it up with cheap conduit to get the rear suspension design figured out...The red section is just left there to give the illusion of a hardtail and I will eventually build in a section on the main frame (yellow) to hide the gap and support the seat.
I wrapped the pipes, ordered some MX bars from a KX, a leather solo seat, a 6" steel rear fender and I picked up a HD sportster tank off of craigslist. I'm relacing the rear hub to a 16" HD rim so I can run some whitewall tires.
I'm learning a lot as I go along and I hope to learn a lot from this website. I am open to all sorts of comments, criticism, suggestions, tips, etc... Thanks guys!
I got busy stripping it down and I replaced most of the seals and gaskets in the engine.
I cleaned the carbs and rejetted them with 120 main and 42 slows and set the air mixture screws to two turns out. Then I bought some K&N pod style air filters.
I picked up a shock from a Kawasaki Ninja600 which is designed to be used w/o a linkage. My plan is to create a bobber that looks like a hardtail but rides like a soft tail. Right now I just mocked it up with cheap conduit to get the rear suspension design figured out...The red section is just left there to give the illusion of a hardtail and I will eventually build in a section on the main frame (yellow) to hide the gap and support the seat.
I wrapped the pipes, ordered some MX bars from a KX, a leather solo seat, a 6" steel rear fender and I picked up a HD sportster tank off of craigslist. I'm relacing the rear hub to a 16" HD rim so I can run some whitewall tires.
I'm learning a lot as I go along and I hope to learn a lot from this website. I am open to all sorts of comments, criticism, suggestions, tips, etc... Thanks guys!