1975 CB500T Cafe racer project

[steviepickles]

1975 Cb500T Café Racer Project
Clean title numbers matching for the engine and frame only had 8900 miles on it when I got the bike.
I’ve spent 8 months getting to this point with this project and unfortunately I cant finish it. I am getting married and I don’t have the time between work and other obligations and I’m pissed so my loss is your gain. This bike looks great already just needs someone with time to finish her.
Most of the parts were bought at Dime City Cycles online (big café racer site) so here’s the list of what I’ve done so far,

Frame
-Frame was bead blasted and all unnecessary tabs cut off all spots rewelded and rear shock mounts beefed up.
-Frame primed and then painted with Eastwood Chassis paint
-Rear hoop was fitted and welded on.
-Custom battery tray was welded in and filled so it looks smooth.
-Rear shocks brand new taken apart and copper leafed
-Custom made Benji Café racer Seat and tank(4.5 months wait time)
-Seat has leather insert single cowl and rear brake light
-Tank has dual petcock
-Chopped front fender


Front End


Motor
-Started with a stock CB500t motor that ran (original)
-Rebuilt top and bottom
-New pistons and rings
-Head rebuilt
-New spark plugs + boots
-Oil cap Copper leafed
-New timing chain
-Motor was painted with Eastwood Gloss black Ceramic high temp.
-All new gaskets
-Spark plug coil rebuilt
-Rebuilt Starter
-All motor covers powder coated wet Black
-All engine mounts powder coated black
-Carbs were dipped and cleaned
-Rebuild kits are in the box
-Carb caps copper leafed
-Sprocket copper leafed

Wheels
-Rebuilt 1975 CB spoke wheels
-New bearings front and rear
-New spokes front and rear
-Wheels powder coated wet black
-New rear pads and springs
-Rebuilt front caliper and seals and piston and pads
-New never mounted Firestone Champion Deluxe Tires
-Front 4.00x19
-Rear 3.75x18
-New Tubes and rubber spoke covers

Forks +Front End
-Rebuilt Forks and new seals copper leafed
-New triple tree bearings
-Rebuilt master cylinder and copper leafed reservoir cover
-New clutch perch
-New Brake and clutch levers copper leafed
-New Forward controls (turn, started kill all in one)
-New headlight bucket
-New headlight brackets
-New Vortex clip-ons
-New grips
-New throttle tube
-New billet mirror
-New bar end led blinkers (amber)
-New stainless steel brake lines and all matching parts
-New 2.5 gauges
-Copper leafed ignition

All throttle, rear brake, Tach and other hard lines were all wrapped in silver tech wrap to match the ss lines and then covered in clear shrink tube.
I also have all new fuel line and drain tubing
All new washer for the brakes and other parts
Original wire harness in good shape if u need it
New grounds wrapped also with the tech wrap

All copper leafed parts were a pain to do and have 6 coats of clear on them to prevent oxidation.
I have all the original parts to give with the bike.

All you need to finish this bike is time and
-Battery
-Exhaust
I have well over 4500 invested in this bike with all the recipts to prove. I am looking for 3600 or best offer.
If you would like to see pictures message me ur info my computer is acting up with the attachements or have any questions feel free to email or call me Stevieconstantine@gmail.com (646)896-9968 Thanks

 

[vtwin650]

That is one hell of a first post....please, please post pictures.
I cannot afford this bike, but I would love to see it anyhow...

 

[76cb500t]

Im in the process of doing a 76 cb500t

 

[vtwin650]

Im in the process of doing a 76 cb500t

This reminds me of AnchorMan

"I Love Lamp"

 

[brycegp]

Most of the parts were bought at Dime City Cycles online (big café racer site)

haha...thanks for the clarity...but if you are on this site, its hard to NOT know who DCC is....their banner is at the top of this thread. i just thot that was funny...

The bike sounds great! +1 on the pics...

 

[brycegp]

-Front 4.00x19
-Rear 3.75x18

??? did you enter these tire sizes incorrectly?

 

[steviepickles]

brycegp sorry i totally wrote that wrong
Front is 3.25x19
Rear is 4.00x18
i am posting pics now so everyone can see the project.

 

[steviepickles]

Here are some pics guys 8)
All the copper is Hand leafed and took forever to do right and then cleared 6 times over

 

[steviepickles]

more pics

 

[steviepickles]

In the third picture you will see the Stainless brake line and the other line is the tach line that i wrapped in ss tech wrap and then covered in clear shrink tubing so it can match pretty close and all of the other lines are the same also.

 

[steviepickles]

Tires!!!

 

[marla_do]

looks good. can we get some pics of underneath the seat and how its mounted to the frame?

thanks in advance

 

[steviepickles]

I welded the rear hoop and then decided to weld in a plate to support the battery. Then welded that front piece to accept the tongue that sticks out from under the cowl.

 

[steviepickles]

Bump

 

[SoyBoySigh]

WOW, that is one cool bike! I wish to hell I could afford that right now. You know what you should do, is you should offer to finish the bike for a little more money. It might not pay for the hours your putting in, but it would be great to see it finished the way you always wanted. Otherwise, I'd just say sell the parts off and get more money than you're asking for right now, that way it's a lot easier to find a buyer. I'm just sorry you're not keeping it, you put so much into this so far, that much is obvious. It's just that, well for right or for wrong, even though you know and they know they'll wind up with a lesser product, everybody wants to build their OWN bike, you know? So, if they've got your frame or your wheels or your engine, they can still tell themselves it THEIR bike. Otherwise, you might find somebody willing to buy a complete bike, hell I'm sure that finished you could probably just park that bike outside a trendy bar in a trendy neighborhood, you could wind the odometer back a couple hundred miles and ride it to hollywood and just sit there at a side-walk cafe and watch the crowd gather around it. Then you stand up on your table and start the bidding! Ha ha. You might be able to fly back first class!

-S.

 

[SoyBoySigh]

(((Unless, of course ... you wanna spend even MORE time writing up an instruction booklet. Might wanna learn "Engrish" just to put it in a form everybody recognizes on instruction booklets. And if you were to sell it to a complete twit, well I figure something about as thick as a paper-back murder mystery ought to do it.)))

 

[steviepickles]

Bumpity Bump!!

 

[deepwaterimports]

wow great pics so far. any updates???

 

[brycegp]

according to the post...he's SELLING this. NOT still building it....

 

[deepwaterimports]

according to the post...he's SELLING this. NOT still building it....

wow missed that last sentence on the first post