Topic: 73 cb500k project

[smahala1286]

I bought this cb500 with the intentions of making it into a cafe racer. I don't have the money to do what I want right now but the plan is to ride it for now and tear it down this winter to start adding cafe mods. I bought it with a horrible huge fairing on the front and it even came with saddle bags haha. The first thing I did was remove the fairing and do a lot of cleaning. It runs great, I did take the carbs off and clean them. I ended up painting the tank and the one side cover I do have with some duplicolor gun metal metallic. I still need to find a right side cover for it. It had open headers that I replaced with some aftermarket 4 into 2 exhaust. I had to rebuild the front brake caliper. I replaced the rear wheel with one from a cb550 with a newer tire I had lying around. The rear shocks were blown and it made for a pretty harsh ride, I replaced them with some off my cm400. I swapped out the bars for some with a lower rise. The speedo didnt work so i just threw a cb450 one on I had. It still needs a lot of work, next I will replace the front tire and the huge rear taillight with a smaller unit. I'm thinking of shaving the seat so its level all the way across and put a new cover on it. Here are some pics of the bike so far. Let me know what you think.

















Winter to do list:
-cafe tail section
-rearsets
-clipons

[smahala1286]

unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have to sell the bike, my house takes priority right now and I need the money. If I installed some turn signals and cleaned it up some more what would be a good asking price? Thanks

[lynchj]

That's too  bad about having to sell it but you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm not going to be of any help on coming up with a price....sorry about that.... why am I typing this then? Well it's cuz I have a basket case 73 CB500 and I gravitate to posts with the same bike.
That bike is in way better shape than mine (but I got mine for $0), good luck man.

[smahala1286]

thanks. Yeah I hate to get rid of it. It was fun to cleaning it up and riding it this summer though.