Recently I bought a nice rough gem as I like to call them. A fairly original cb750 k2 from 1975, with a Marshall exhaust and some bad white paint, and some small things as the blinkers etc.
The bike had one owner till last month, when it came for sale I was a tad too late to buy it. Then a shady dealer bought it and put it up for sale after 1 week, so I had to jump on it right away. The first owner had it sitting for years, then had the top end completely rebuilt and only drove 180kms after that and it stood for another year. So the brakes were jammed, they needed some massaging to get going again and the battery was dead, but other than that it fired right up.
As we started out with the bike:
Now, just over a week later I think the progress is already noticeable..
Replaced the gas tank and side covers with original old ones, I prefer some patina on the bike over new paint. For my other k2 I bought a better seat, so the old one from that one came to good use on this bike, and had to replace a lot of the chrome parts (front and rear fender, handle bars, kickstarter, etc) and had to polish a lot of chrome as well.
Did take it out for a small test ride today, turned out the steering bearings are completely gutted so those will need replacing. And it wasn't running properly on all 4, figured out it was one of the spark plugs which turned out to be broken. So tomorrow I'll get a new one for that as well, then it should run properly on all 4 again.
I have some small rubbers I have to buy to make the rear turn signals fit, and have an original exhaust set currently at the welder so those will go on as soon as they are repaired. That will probably take a week or 2. I'll post some updates when it is done.
