I can't begin to tell you how much this thread warms my heart.......Confused? let me explain.
I bought that bike originally in 2005 from seth rosko who claimed he got it from the original owner in NJ. It is actually how I met Rosko and what's more I bought it through a classified ad on this forum. I kept the bike for a while at the skate park that Rosko sorta managed called the Autum Bowl, and it was over a few wrench sessions there with this bike that he decided to bring the Vinmoto email list that was working in chicago and I decided to try to get the few scattered members of the VJMC in NY more active. If you have ever been to the Vintage motorcycle show on N14 in brooklyn - it exists in part to this exact cb750F.
I put those dual piston calipers on it. The sidecovers were black because I accidently stepped on and broke one of the original red ones and I had a set of the black ones and decided to just use them instead. I believe the left one was actually an NOS one I had been holding on to for years. I still have the rusty stock honda muffler off that bike in a corner of my shop.
I had the bike running and rode it for about 100 miles before putting it in storage at my parents house. Fast forward to last year, Jaguar contacts me and convinces me to sell the bike to a friend of his who wanted to learn to ride and really wanted a CB750. I sold it and the kid had it for one season before he blew the engine on it because he did 0 maintenance on it (literally he ran it out of oil after riding it 5000 miles). I was so heartbroken that the bike was screwed up that I didn't buy it back from jaguar when he offered it to me at a friend price (he had acquired it in a part trade for a cb450 to the same friend). I thought it would just be parted out and scattered to the wind.
There are some bikes in this world that carry with them a special aura. I don't mean specific brands, but specific bikes (ask me about the"cursed dream" some other time). This one bike brought two friends together who helped grow an otherwise dying motorcycle community in NY as well as help a new rider get his wings. Positive motorcycle things tend to surrond this bike and I am glad to see her in such great condition and enjoying a second lease on life.
Plus if it helps - when you go to sell it you can say it was once owned by both thwe founder of NYC vinmoto and the former VJMC rep for NY.
I guess this is just my long winded sentimental way of saying great job. I don't know anything else about the bike's life from 1978-2004 but I did once take an inspection sticker off it from 1985 so I am going to guess most of it's life from 1985-2004 was spent in the back of a NJ garage.
