Alex E
New Member
Hello DTT,
Been reading and getting advise second hand from this site for almost a year now, finally made a profile and started lending my 2 cents very recently. Excited to get involved. Been around bikes my whole life from my fathers interest in British motorcycles, but didn't really catch the bug until a trade ended up in my lap two years ago. Ended up trading out an old snowboard set-up of mine, for a barned up, gunked up, rusty, coughing, sputtering, did not want to run 1975 cb400F. Spent the first summer wrenching and learning as I went, and gave it an almost complete tear-down over the winter for the purpose of paint/polish. That spring I decided I wanted more power to cruise around on and sold the 400, only to buy a 1976 cb750F SS, which I then ended up spending the whole summer wrenching and learning all over again, this time for similar and new issues to me. Now that it runs I am doing a little cafe racer/brat conversion to it and plan to (hopefully) have a summer of riding with minimal wrenching.
Looking forward to more here on DTT, hope to help some out real soon. My knowledge is still amateur, but I think I have come a long way in these two years and plan on learning motor internals from my latest project buy- a 1975 cb200T I picked up a few months ago with a frozen motor.
Below is a picture of the 400 when I sold it, and a picture of where my 750 currently sits.
Best,
Alex
Been reading and getting advise second hand from this site for almost a year now, finally made a profile and started lending my 2 cents very recently. Excited to get involved. Been around bikes my whole life from my fathers interest in British motorcycles, but didn't really catch the bug until a trade ended up in my lap two years ago. Ended up trading out an old snowboard set-up of mine, for a barned up, gunked up, rusty, coughing, sputtering, did not want to run 1975 cb400F. Spent the first summer wrenching and learning as I went, and gave it an almost complete tear-down over the winter for the purpose of paint/polish. That spring I decided I wanted more power to cruise around on and sold the 400, only to buy a 1976 cb750F SS, which I then ended up spending the whole summer wrenching and learning all over again, this time for similar and new issues to me. Now that it runs I am doing a little cafe racer/brat conversion to it and plan to (hopefully) have a summer of riding with minimal wrenching.
Looking forward to more here on DTT, hope to help some out real soon. My knowledge is still amateur, but I think I have come a long way in these two years and plan on learning motor internals from my latest project buy- a 1975 cb200T I picked up a few months ago with a frozen motor.
Below is a picture of the 400 when I sold it, and a picture of where my 750 currently sits.
Best,
Alex