Hi everyone, I'm a recent 1977 CB750 Super Sport owner based in Upstate NY! Don't hold it against me.
I bought the bike from a guy who had started and very much failed to complete a cafe racer conversion, having run out of time, money, and goodwill, when his wife became pregnant. Due to its half-finished state, I managed to buy it for next to nothing. I had planned to give it to my friend who owns a custom bike shop to finish up the work - he said it'd be a month before he could get it in. So in the meantime I started watching YouTube videos and reading forum posts and I thought to myself you know what? This doesn't seem that hard.
Turns out, it's pretty hard. Hard but not impossible.
I'm about 2 weeks of good evenings away from having it finished (enough) for the season, and then this winter I plan to tear the entire thing apart and get it exactly where I want it. I've learned how to disassemble, clean and tune carburetors, do ignition timing, learned how to turn a heap of spaghetti into a sensible wiring loom, learned how to clean gas tanks, replace oil boxes, replace grips, how to grind off obsolete tabs, how to weld, how to make fiberglass plugs, molds, and forms, etc etc and it's the most fun I've ever had.
I'll certainly post some pictures upon completion if anyone is interested, and thank you to you all for all the advice and laughs and topics you've posted here over the years. I think I absorbed most of it in the past 3 weeks.
