My name is Jack, I am 40(ish) and I live in Urbana Ohio. I have just taken possession of a 1978 CB750K. This is my first bike ever and it is a project bike for sure. I had never really worked on a bike because I had never had one really. Back in 1993 my grandfather got into a rather nasty bike accident and thrashed his bike. while he was recovering, he started rebuilding it to stock. a few months into it he found out he had colon cancer and took a turn for the worse. He passed away later that year but he left his bike to me... an 11 yr old kid. As i got older i became more interested in guitars and music so i never really thought about the bike at all... I would work on cars occasionally and other various things but i never got into a bike. When i was 30 yrs old i decided to give my grandpas bike to my cousin so he and his dad had a project to work on... keep in mind, I hadn't so much as looked at grandpas bike since i was on it in 1992.
So years pass and I have gotten into guitar building, furniture building, 3D printing, leather working.... etc... I am a hard person to keep busy. But one day i get a hair up my aR$e and I want to start a bike project (i just get urges and i have to go with it) I had looked for a few months and nothing caught by attention. I wanted a project bike because i don't know much about them and my ultimate respect to any subject is... to rip it apart and put it back together again... the same, if not better than you found it. One day last week I went to a buddies house to check out a sportster he was trying to sell off and I wasn't really interested in it (I don't know much but I was warned against them) but he had another bike sitting next to it and it was covered with moss and sticks and whatever... so i asked about it. He told me that he had bought it about 10 years back as a bobber project but never did anything with it... it had the fairing and tons of boxes. I asked him what he wanted for that one and he said $500... which i knew was too much for such an unknown bike like that... but I really wanted it and i knew that he really needed money at the time so I went ahead and bought it. I had an instant connection with it for some reason. I know it will be the most "project bike" as it can be in the long run.
Last weekend I spent saturday taking off the fairing and boxes...Which was a wiring nightmare by the way...
I got ahold of my cousin and uncle to ask a few questions about sycronized carbs... turns out that I bought the same year and model of bike that my grandpa had left me in the first place. I had no idea because it was so long ago and at the time I had no real interest. I had lived in Marysville Ohio for a majority of my life so i have always been surrounded by honda bikes but this was extremely weird... at any rate, its the bike i have and i have zero clue what direction i want to go in... I just want to make it start at this point.
I just wanted to share that experience with you all and i also wanted to say that i am nuts about this bike... you could say obessed and that would be accurate
Cheers
