Wanted to drop in, say hi, and tell the beginning of my story! My name is Jeremiah. I come from a pretty hardcore Harley family. Somewhere along the way I got lost...I'm more of a crotch rocket sort of guy. I've owned 3 suzuki gsxr bikes. Well....and this lonely old cb750. Due to hard times, a couple years back I sold my last running bike. I've missed it badly and regret selling, but maybe it was for a good reason.
The 72 cb750 I have has been in my family for a long while. My uncle gave it to my father many many years ago. He never did anything with it until I was a senior in high school. He tinkered with it and did what he could to customize it "his way" with the intent of giving me my first bike. I love my father and appreciate him attempting to build me a bike, but his engineering design lacked and ultimately I ended up purchasing my first gsxr while this bike continued to hang from a chain fall in the garage. At some point that year I took the bike where I was living and tinkered with it well enough to ride it a couple miles until the custom exhaust would fall off or the clutch cable would snap and I would be forced to push it home.
Fast forward about 7 years. All this time, the bike has been leaning up against a shed in my back yard. A few months back my uncle gave me a parts bike in case I ever wanted to make this thing move again. A few weeks ago, my little sister (19 years old) came to me and said she wants to learn how to ride and work on motorcycles and wants me to teach her on this old cb750. I reluctantly agreed and decided to drag both bikes in the garage. We spent this last weekend stripping the parts bike of everything we could use and sent the rest off to the scrap yard.
For some reason, seeing someone else excited about this thing has lit a fire under my ass. While I realize many people here will probably be dedicated to restoration and preservation of these classics, I personally can't stand how tall and fat this thing is. So me, my sister and her boyfriend are putting her under the knife. Probably going to become a lowered hard tail bobber type cruiser.
So here I am, and here she is. I know I will be able to learn a ton from this forum and all the members and I look forward to sharing my progress with everyone as it comes along! This is where I am taking her from...
