Hi everyone. With this project, I wanted to see if I could get a CB400F on the road without spending any money. To start, I bought a CB400F from member momo late last summer or early fall. At the time I was thinking I would do a full resto on it. My problem with that is that I always end up spending too much money. I will buy parts that I need, then end up getting those same parts with a parts bike a couple months later. So, new plan. I decided I would buy a bunch of bikes to try to accumulate all of the needed parts to get one roadworthy bike and sell everything else to pay for it. Thus, ending up with a free bike. The goal with the bike is no longer a restoration, but a nice survivor looking bike. In all, I ended up buying a total of 6 bikes some of which came with extra parts including new cables, brakes, engine gasket and seal sets, bearings, etc. Basically, everything you would want to replace with new when doing a project like this, I got with the bikes, even several gallons on Honda motorcycle oil. The total spend for the 6 bikes and extra parts was $4400. Not too bad. After selling off about 1/2 of the unneeded parts, I am in the black by $364.10. So it seems this method is going to work out pretty well. I am at the stage now where I am trying to sort through the parts that are left so I can take the nicest of each part and put the rest into the sell pile and then start assembling. I have a good base to start with as Larry had already put together a nice roller with new tires and a bunch of the other work done already. So it will mostly be a matter of deciding which engine is best and putting it in and going from there.
