I've finally settled on project subject. For a bit, I flirted with building a Street Tracker. After a few weeks of soul searching it came clear this would be too close to the CL360 that I already own. While researching the CB750 I became quite taken with the early styling, design and history. This was the first super bike and a leap forward for the modern motorcycle. Enclosed picture is my goal by 2010.
I will assemble a "near" showroom quality Red 1970 CB750.
This is going to be a great project bike. I have a few odds n' ends laying around including pristine Honda tank and side cover emblems. Let me know if you can use these parts. just curious, what did the exhaust system set you back?
Side note: Dick Mann won the 1970 Daytona 200 on a CR750 Honda.
Simpson, I love how you built a garage in order to enable the restoration project. First things first, after all. That's the nicest lighting fixture I've ever seen in a garage, by the way.
Your choice of motorcycles to restore is awesome. That Honda changed the entire worldwide motorcycle industry, including putting the last few coffin nails into my beloved Norton brand. As an aside, the '69 CB750 was Cycle Magazine's cover bike prior to its release and was posed with the most incredible bikini-wearing model I had ever seen up to that point in my young life. The bikini was crocheted. Need I say more? I'm sure more than one young man spent time with a magnifying glass cursing the limitations of the primitive printing technology available at the time.
Best of luck with the project; I'll look forward to following your progress. And will keep an eye out for that cover shot, to go along with your restoration...
I've always thought about hanging my tools like with my bench similary located like yours to the wall what would happen if you used a bfh on the vice or slammed the door, etc... big wall vibrations does it cause any tools to fall??
Either way looks really really nice, and i'm jealous!! So are the freaks calling it a bedroom they just dont know how to say it with out being worred about their manlyness.... Oh crap now i sound ghei?? And i haven't even met RC90
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Originally Posted by hondaf4iguy
Looks nice. If I lived closer, I would probably come by to take a look at it.
You have a VERY nice garage/shop/bedroom!!!!!!!!! I'm still in an apartment and working on my bike in a small space next to the wall of the parking garage. I'll hopefully be buying a house in the next few months and if I'm lucky it will have a space as nice as yours for working on projects. My fiance and I were at Sears yesterday making a list of all the tools I want and all the things she can get me for birthdays/christmas etc.
Keep us up to date on your project - that's going to be a nice one!!
So I would up this morning far far far from home....
On the drive home, I called up Mr Simpson to see about hanging out today.
I met him and his #1 Accomplice and we headed out to breakfast.
It's nice working on the bike in the comfort of your living room. The girl was not really to excited about that, so I built a new living room where I could be comfortable to work on the bike.
Soon she will be asking to hang out in the living-garage.
It's nice working on the bike in the comfort of your living room. The girl was not really to excited about that, so I built a new living room where I could be comfortable to work on the bike.
I'm in the same situation right now, living in an apartment. Most of my work gets done in the living room of our apartment. Parts and boxes of more parts line the hallway and are stacked in every room except the kitchen! My fiance doesn't mind and lends a hand whenever I work on anything, but she's ready to get a house with a shop, or at least a 3-car garage so I can finish my bike project and start on a dirt bike project for her. She's buying herself a CRF 230 and me a CRF 450X, and wants me to trick them both out.
Oh crap now i sound ghei?? And i haven't even met RC90 
I'll hopefully be buying a house in the next few months and if I'm lucky it will have a space as nice as yours for working on projects. My fiance and I were at Sears yesterday making a list of all the tools I want and all the things she can get me for birthdays/christmas etc. 
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