Hello guys, I'm a new owner of a 1976 CB550K that was given grac to me by my awesome dad. I had been wanting to get a bike for a while, and he gave me his as long as I would work on it (needed a new head-gasket) and help fix up another cb550 thats been sitting in the garage for a few years. This bike was in excellent condition, but sadly my days of roaming the open road going wherever the curves brought me have been put on halt. Currently I am taking apart the bike and fixing it up after I ran into some massive potholes (barely a half mile from my house) and dumped it into a ditch, and got banged up myself. Twisted the forks, and most of the front end needs to be replaced as well as the gas tank. I love this bike and cannot wait to get it back on the road. My dad said I should check out this site because everyone here was very helpful, and he was always getting laughs out of it. So here I am. This whole restoration project has been a lot of fun for me as I had never rebuilt an engine before, and I'm learning a lot and I hope that I can get some good advice on here as there are definitely some experts on here (I've been here quite a lot recently with this rebuild). I'm hoping that this is the beginning of a very long time being involved with motorcycles.
Eric
