I'm 58 years old, have owned Honda 4's since the '80's when I bought a CB750K for $250. Then a CB550K for $100... back then we just rode them until they fell apart and then dropped them at the junkyard. Not so anymore! Anyway, I went to restoring Euro bikes, sold off my last CB550F (something I regretted immediately) and thought I moved on. I became the "scooter guy" in my area and in the AMCA Viking chapter in MN doing Vespa & other scooter restoration. The local VJMC chapter's beautiful bikes made me hungry for another Honda, and I bought a '64 Dream, and then a rough '63 Dream. One day when looking at craigslist I saw an ad for a '76 CB550F for $30 (with title!) that turned out to be a stripped-for-parts rolling F chassis with a perfectly good engine. It was in amazing shape and I decided to rebuild my old F. Although it was stripped there is a lot there and all the parts are good/clean up. So I threw it in the middle of the project queue between an Allstate and a Lambretta, it shouldn't take long. The VJMC guys are helping with parts. Now looking for a reasonable 750 to relive my younger days. Damn this #$%* is expensive now! Wish I would have spent my youth buying old motorcycles & guitars.
Pics of my project the day I got it, and my old F. It's pretty easy to see which is which.
