Hello all,
Getting back into motorcycles after a 10 year break: started with a job that allowed zero time to ride, then damage to my right wrist that took a long time to heal.
The hand is pretty good now and I figure that if the throttle is too much for the wrist I can swap always which side the controls are on.
Wouldn't be my first modification...
Bike history:
1981 CB750f - just about dead when I got it
1980 CB750 - Got a few good years then burned valves took it out
1973 CB750 K3 - bought non-running, no seat or exhaust. about 100 hours and mostly scavenged parts had a bike I ran for 7 years <-- last bike
Various cheap or free bikes (mostly non- or barely running):
1977 CB750a
about 6 other CB750s of various years
CB450
Yamaha 250 that a buddy had in his garage when the 1980 burned the valves: free, 6 hours of work and rode that until a drunk hit me from behind
I now have an hour drive to work each day and figure a bike will save me a good bit on fuel compared to my truck, plus improve my peace of mind a great deal.
I've been looking at a few different bikes but in the last 10 years CB750s have gone from bikes that nobody else wants to being pretty popular, so I have had to up my budget some and look for longer than I thought.
There are a few owners I have been talking to lately, most DOHC sadly, but I am looking at a pair of 73/74 bikes and hope to look at them next weekend.
With luck they will be good (or good enough to get started on!) and I will be back on a bike within a couple of weeks.
I found this forum while looking around for parts suppliers and so on- I have moved since the last time I rebuilt a bike and the interwebs have changed a lot since then too - 1995 was a long while back.
From the history up above I am obviously a big fan of the CB750 and in fact I find it about the perfect bike: quick, handles well, decent economy and comfortable for a decent ride lengths.
I haven't really considered any other bikes- not even happy with getting a dual cam 750, so I have my fingers crossed that next weekend works out.
