Hello From southern New Hampshire

[Alex E]

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

 

[Perter]

Welcome Alex
I'm new too and have no replies to my intro either - so decided to make one for you.

Nice bikes, I started out on a CB350F many moons ago. Ran it for couple of years, then it was left at my parents farmhouse until they cleaned the barn.... and scrapped it!... what a shame, would have been fun today.

Your seat on the 750 looks like you're applying for an Iron Butt... is it an old skateboard?... looks good but hard

Have a nice day.

 

[yorkie350]

Welcome in fella's look forward to keeping up with ya build threads 8) get plenty of ideas n advice here and everyone loves pic's plenty of pics's

 

[Alex E]

Perter,
Thank you for the hello. To bad about your 350, those are fun bikes. And yes, as the seat was in the photo, it is a skateboard seat pan, but that's just the start! Below are some photos of where it is at now. It has 4 layers of foam (cut from a blue ground camping mat from Walmart) and wrapped in 2 layers of fleece. Now all it needs is the leather wrap and the seat. is. done!

yorkie350,
Thank you also for the welcome. Will be posting more as the days warm up- its been a lot of gloved up, space heater in the garage nights tinkering away. But don't worry, I have been trying to take pics of every step. Planning on making a little photo book of the transformation when its all done.

 

[palepainter]

Those are some tight Hondas. Nice job sir!

 

[Rusnak_322]

That 750 is looking nice!