Back in April, CalJ must have decided I didn't have enough junk or stuff to do, so he brought me this 550F and a couple of totes full of parts.
He wanted more space in his garage and I was tripping over stuff so, hey.... makes perfect sense!
This bike was actually SOHC4 Forum member Springer's old bike.
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,143800.0.html With Cal's permission, I sold off some stuff I didn't need and used those funds to buy the few parts I was missing. I'm a parts hoarder and this is about the seventh CB500/550 I've built, so I had plenty to work with.
In just over four months, I know have a pretty sweet CB550F Street Tracker. I laced up a set of wheels and installed some Avon tires I already had, found a Delkevic exhaust, swapped the PD carbs for some 022A's, mated an old seat pan to a tracker seat that I bought at Barber 3 or 4 years ago, sourced a wiring harness, and used a bunch of parts I had laying around.
A friend turned me on to a great painter and I got a killer matte finish paint job.
This old Honda has made it's way from Ohio to Virginia to South Carolina and will soon be ripping up the streets again!