It's time I get my own thread going here in the project shop. A little history, having had a new 1974 CB450 K7 having outgrown it in a year, sold it and I bought my 1st 750 new in 1975 while a senior in high school, a Planet Blue K5, but had to replace it a year later after I watched my ex cousin total it going too fast into a corner, he put it into the ditch and hit a boulder.....
There weren't any more Planet Blue in stock at the shop I was a parts man at so I got a new K6 that summer of 1976 and put 45,000 miles on it, my hound Cody had 35,000 miles on it with me, we did 5 cross country trips on it before selling it in 1983. So with that amount of miles and years I am partial to the Antares Red of the K6 and now have 2 project K6s.
The 1st project K6 I've had since 2015, and it's been in a stalled state(lack of $$). I fully stripped it down in 2015 to the frame and the motor has the top end off to rebuild as it was locked up from mice pee in 2 cylinders.
This K6 I set up from the crate for my oldest brother. He had me put on a Vetter fairing, Shoei bags and 10" rise bars. He only had it a year or 2 before taking a job in Chicago and didn't want to take it there needing to buy a house for his family so my dad bought it and rode it to work for a couple years on good days while he was service manager at Sears. Mom would ride with him until she got scared from someone almost hitting them. Dad sold it to a friend of mine that wanted a K6 in 1979/80? who rode it until 1988 when it puked oil on his dress pants on the way to work one morning. He parked it when he got home that night under his lean-to, then bought a shed to put it in @ 1994 where the mice took up residence on the bike with a 2 story penthouse condo......a play nest nest in the tool tray and a birthing chamber under the carbs and air filter..... it has 25,000 miles on it.
The second K6 I got in a package deal a year ago of 6 rolling frames, 4 with motors, and a separate K5 motor with an 836 kit, SS2 cam and the ports are polished, I need to open up the bottom end as it sat upside down in my friend's shed without the oil pan so I want to inspect it as well as new gaskets in the top end. The cam looks like it has low miles on it. I also need to strip off the black and red paint job on that K5 motor as there's lots of peeling paint, my friend said he bought it in a chopper. Hopefully the hotrod K5 motor will live again over this winter to go in my brother/dad's K6, until I can rebuild the original motor for it.
I'm not sure how many miles are on the 2nd K6 as someone put a K7/K8 front end on it including the gauges at some point of it's life, but the motor kicks over still.
I also have another K5 that is my summer ride, it was a friend's who passed away in 2017 so I bought it from his estate and it only needed a soft cleaning of the carbs to get it running as I had taught him how to put his bike away properly when he got it in 1980. It's been a blast to ride as it had been 1983 since I was on a 750. I've been restoring goldwings and riding them since 1998. I missed the ride of the 750s.
