john83
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I've always wanted a hard tail bobber chopper. Last week I saw this hard tail frame on the local CL. Seller said he was selling it because the motor had locked up and he'd gone on to different things, it had a CB500 motor in it. I happen to have CB550 that I was working on making a cafe racer out of but the project is stalled and I've sort of lost interest. So what's gonna happen is I'm going to stick my motor in this thing and see try to get it going. There are some interesting things going on with this thing to sort out.
The hardtail looks to be well done, the welds all look very solid. All the factory welds seem to have been smoothed down and blended in. It had a cool purple paint job with some pin striping but it's been in the weather and has quite a few nicks in it. The fuel tank is actually below the seat and used to be a fire extinguisher. There's a tap the bottom of the tank and a small vacuum operated pump that apparently gets fuel up to the carburetors. The seller said it worked pretty well before the engine seized. The front end doesn't look like it came from a 500 or 550, due to the Comstar wheels and trailing bake caliper. Maybe from a 650?
So the plan to begin with is to get my engine in the frame and see if I can get it to run. From there we will see.
The hardtail looks to be well done, the welds all look very solid. All the factory welds seem to have been smoothed down and blended in. It had a cool purple paint job with some pin striping but it's been in the weather and has quite a few nicks in it. The fuel tank is actually below the seat and used to be a fire extinguisher. There's a tap the bottom of the tank and a small vacuum operated pump that apparently gets fuel up to the carburetors. The seller said it worked pretty well before the engine seized. The front end doesn't look like it came from a 500 or 550, due to the Comstar wheels and trailing bake caliper. Maybe from a 650?
So the plan to begin with is to get my engine in the frame and see if I can get it to run. From there we will see.