Hello all,
I've joined SOHC4.net after many years of gleaning from it because I am going to need to be asking some questions pretty soon. I was born in 1968, bought my first bike - a Honda CG125 on my 18th birthday for £225. After that I had a CB125T which was an appallingly slow and boxy machine which made me which I still had the CG. After that I had a CB550 rat bike which I took delivery of in 4 tea chests. I think the purists here might consider what that bike looked like to be an act of heresy but all I will say is that it was matt black all over when I got it and matt black all over when I sold it. After that came my 1976 CB400F. Again this was matt black but thankfully only the tank and its one and only side panel. I became a despatch rider on this bike. This was a short-lived career and I 'retired' from it with all my limbs intact. I still have that bike to this day having fully restored it except for paint. Since I bought the 400/4 I have also had a CB250N, BMW R75/5, a Kawasaki KLR650 (broke camchain after 40 miles of riding), a Japanese-market CBX750 and a Moto Guzzi V11 Sport (which Mrs Nerdos was good enough to be ridden away from our wedding on the pillion in her wedding dress). My current bikes are the 400/4 already mentioned, enough spares to build another 400/4, an Aprilia Caponord and, as of two days ago, a CB750K3 still wearing its Michigan number/licence/license plate. The 750 is a bit of a shed. Pictures and inane questions will follow. I'm reasonably knowledgeable about the 400 but the 750 is all new to me. I wanted one from as far back as I can remember. Now it's here...and it's rusty. My real name is Paul if anyone cares. Apologies if this intro appears 3 times. I'm having trouble with the hateful recaptcha code thing.
