Hello All,
I apologize I am just now getting around to posting my new member introduction. I have been following the posts on here for a while now. This forum has provided a significant amount of information and entertainment so far and I look forward to being a part of this community going forward.
I live in Texas and at the beginning of this year picked up a '73 CB 500. The story about the bike is that my father bought it when he was in the Navy around 1977/78. I have heard a number of stories about his adventures on the bike and have fond memories of playing on it when I was a small child. In the mid 80's my father traded the bike to one of his good friends who rode it for a few years until the bike started to leak oil from the head gasket. He decided to park the bike to prevent further damage until he could get around to fixing it. At that point the bike was parked in the back of the garage under a tarp (around 1988/89) and did not move again.
I contacted my fathers friend and asked if he still had the bike. He told me that if I came to his house with a truck he would give it to me. Although he warned me that I had not idea what I was getting myself into, both my father and his friend were very excited to see the bike back on the road.
Since January I have made a number of repairs and the bike is now back on the road. It still has a long way to go before it is where I want it to be but it is really cool to ride a motorcycle my father used to ride around as a young man.
The project has also been a lot of fun as I have a 4 year old daughter who has become obsessed with the project as well. Every day when we get home she asks to go out to the garage to "work on the motorcycle". I even found her in the living room with a hammer and screw driver working on her tricycle as if she were rebuilding her own motorcycle.
I may start a build thread to document the project up to this point and going forward but for now just wanted to get this post up to say hello and tell you a little about myself
Below is a picture of the bike as it is today. It has come a long way and still has a ways to go but I think my favorite part of this whole endeavor is that it will never really be done (that and of course riding the bike)
