Got a call to work on a CB750, and today was the day I met the guy. Blown away when I saw the bike -- it had been in storage since 1980 or so, and I'm guessing those with better chopper knowledge than me will be able to suss some of the parts on this thing. But the story's amazing...
The guy who owned it was from Anchorage, AK. He was literally a pimp. His wife was one of his working girls. He died several years ago and she put all of his stuff in a storage container. She recently died too, and all of the stuff was sent to their son in Phoenix. He'd moved there to get away from them and wanted nothing to do with his former life as the son of a pimp and prostitute. He opened up the container and the memories flooded out -- but they were all bad.
The bike went up on craigslist for $2k. The guy I met today, Daniel, offered $1200 and the guy took it -- he wanted to get rid of it so bad.
Daniel was new to bikes, but he cleaned out the carbs and got the thing to fire, but it ran like #$%*. He hit me up, and I adjusted the valves -- way off, dressed and gapped the points, timed it -- way off, cleaned the plugs, synced the carbs -- way off. But when it was all done, the thing purred. The title says 1971, but it's a KO -- 1-4 carb cables, old carbs, and engine stamp. The rest? someone let me know, although he said that included with the bike was every single piece of paperwork associated with it, including custom frame, paint, front end, tank, etc., all the way to a replaced tail light bulb. He didn't have that stuff with him, but he remembered something like AEE or AAE -- Amen perhaps? I dunno!
I finished up, he was psyched, and he asked me if I wanted to take it for a rip. I'm not a big chopper guy obviously but that thing screams. Hell of a wheelbase... And I was a little jealous. I'm mostly a stocker or mild café guy, but this thing ruled. Happy to hear if anyone's got more info... photos below.
Original pink handlebar fringe?
This is on the rear fender. Paint all over is nice with some blemishes and patina and some scrapes, but in pretty great shape overall with the whole "weed" theme.
Dat tank doh...
Starter button, horn, and brights switch -- key turned the lights off and on, but there are three headlights. Dunno what the second toggle is... kill probably?
Ran pretty well and idles well too. The plugs looked a little sooty but not bad at all. Guessing some jetting work's been done to run those stacks.
I know some people people will cry about this not being original -- but this thing was chopped in 1971.
