Hello all. I been conversing with several of you over in the New Members area throughout the day and this place is great. I figured I would jump in here and introduce my self and show yall a lil of what I been workin on. I found this bike on Craigslist on Saturday January 30th at 11:00pm. I called the man at 9:00 am the next day and we spoke a bit on the phone and we quickly figured out that he lives only about 5 miles from me. He has seen me ride my 1976 Honda GL1000 past his house many a time and wondered to himself just wtf kinda bike it was? I have no badging or anything on it and its all hot-rodded out so he couldn't tell. Anyway, I digress...So I show up at his house at 10:30am, hand him the cash, and we start looking the bike over.
He has the whole back story on this bike. The motor looks nice and kicks over freely. Bike has compression but I'm not sure how much yet as I havent had a chance to measure it. Ultimately I am going to take her down to the frame as the PO painted the motor whilst within the frame and now there is god-danged silver paint on everything. There is 37k on the clock but im thinking Im gonna open it up anyway, because I want to, and I enjoy it, and its a super badass hobby right?!
So like I say, Im in the middle of another motor so I am just tinkering with the 750k a lil at work. I teach a machining class at the high school I graduated from so Im in a shop all day long! I couldnt help myself today so I took the gas tank in with me as the paint was just aweful. You can see in the pics how bad it was. Anyway, I got most of the paint off of it today just fiddling around between classes and stuff. I used some stripper and lots of gloves, rags, and a putty knife. It all came away pretty easy. Not bad for what maybe amounted to 40' of work.
Looking forward to getting to know the folks here. Im also a huge fan of Goldwings and my current bikes include a 1984 Honda Goldwing 1200 Aspencade. This is a much sportier bike than a lot of people give it credit for. Under neath all that Tupperware there is the heart of a race horse that loves to run fast and hot! You wont feel like you are ridding a near 800lb machine thats a guarantee. I think of it as more of an early 80s Honda ST1200. I also have the 76 gl1000 as I am sure I will bring up too often. I love this motorcycle. I have owned many bikes but the gl1000 is by far, at this point anyway, the coolest bike I have ever had. It is the machine that taught my how to work on carbs, heads, cooling systems, clutches, and ultimately instill enough confidence to allow me to tear into her soul to replace the piston rings. Hoping to share that kind of emotion with the 750.
Enjoy the pics...
