Just a photo of my CB72 Hawk, stripped down, for drag racing, years ago, when I was stationed in Northern Japan. Had a Sears Moped gas tank, small, that was not only small, had a nice shape, but mounted with a single bolt, through the gas tank, almost vertically. Heavy, restrictive factory mufflers were replaced with hollow Reverse Cone Megaphones. Motor was only slightly modified. And, the licker, was the seat. I bought it from the local small Honda dealer in Misawa Japan and I honestly, at that time, did not realize the Value and fact that it was the Honda Factory Race Seat. Of course, it has been gone, for a long time now, as are the "Clip-On" racing handle bars. It ran pretty good though and sounded beautiful, through the hollow megaphones. And I have included a couple shots of others.
So now, I am working on putting together a mock-up, to change up, the look, but in an appealing way. Now, I
don't have much, in the way of funds, to add to this build, so, I will be working mainly, with what I have.
I have a "mini fairing" (I am not sure of the exact term for it), a setoff the flatish handlebars, I have mounted a
set of gauges basically on 2 different gauge mounts (that I bolted together, to get the angle I wanted & my close
friend, who is like a brother, to me, made a café style seat that I think looks pretty good (only the seat padding is awful thin, for my behind to be sitting on (may have to add a bit of padding to that. I want to keep just enough of the Super Hawk look, to give a hint of he basic heritage of it. I had bought a CP77 frame, complete with a title. I also found a CL77 motor, on ebay, that was supposed to be a runner, but not pretty. Well, from what little bit, I have checked, on this motor, looks pretty good, under covers and such. There are no broken fins or such. The serial number spot though, is pretty scarred and such, that you can't make hardly any of the numbers out. But, I have an extra Super Hawk motor & an extra crankcase, as well, along with spares of several things. So, I figure I will get to where I can install the motor & get it to where I can see if I can fire it up (checking clearances & such, beforehand). And if it starts and runs good, then, my thoughts are to remove the motor, have a crankcase ready & carefully swap it out. I will also swap out the Top plate of the head (as the CL is different from the CB top mount plate), swap out the camshaft & end caps (to include adding the tachometer drive as well and when I am through, it will be a CB motor, instead of a CL.
Now, I would like to say that, any ideas, that anyone might have, feel free to throw ideas out there. might be something I might would like to and could do, might not, but never know.
