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Offline Hannibal Smith

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Offered a free CM450
« on: May 12, 2010, 12:44:50 PM »
Gotta drive maybe an hour to get it..........if I want it.
 Honda CM450 "Custom" (whatever that means) don't know the year.

No title. Decent shape, know the owner.

Maybe turn it into a track only bike? I don't know.

What are your thoughts, experiences with these bikes?
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 01:00:06 PM »
Its a FREE bike...should be no question about it.  Go get it.
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Offline weekend_junkie

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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 01:30:21 PM »
Free is about the right price, but don't get your hopes up with the track bike idea.  I think this bike is a punch-out of the CM400, which was sloppy handling due to the cruiser design.
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2010, 02:21:02 PM »
Sometimes things are free for a reason.

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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2010, 03:48:06 PM »
Grab it, the CB and CM twins are becoming fairly popular.  It probably won't make much of a track bike for sure.  If you can title it and make it an ugly runner without a big hassle it'll fetch upwards of $500 in most areas.  These bikes are pretty popular with the bobber crowd, but a few have caffeinated them.  If you part it and it's got good pipes and a good tank shoot me a pm.

The 'C' means it's got comstars... a 16" rear and an 18" up front, it's probably got a single disk front and a drum rear, and it's probably an 82 model.
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Offline Johnie

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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2010, 04:35:31 PM »
Here is a pic of a CM400 and a CM400 custom to give you an idea of what you may see there.
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2010, 05:32:25 PM »
Thanks, guys!

I will go and get it. looks like a cool bike.
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2010, 05:38:50 PM »
Nice find!! Show us a picture when you get it home.
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2010, 07:58:22 PM »
+1 on the pics
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Offline 1974blaze

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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2010, 05:21:26 AM »
my friend rides a cm400 through our canyons like its a cbr600. scares the #$%*e out of me, but he does it.  kinda a rad little bike. nothing you can't do with an air cooled twin, styling-wise.
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2010, 04:59:22 AM »
No pics? 
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2011, 03:59:51 PM »
everyone has a good point i would get it i just recently bought a 82' cm450 c i wish it was freexx however i think its totally a bike worth fixing up
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Re: Offered a free CM450
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2011, 11:44:11 PM »
Quote from: Hannibal Smith on May 12, 2010, 12:44:50 PM
Honda CM450 "Custom" (whatever that means) don't know the year.
"Custom" is a word used in Europe for bikes Americans like to call "Cruisers".
Many of the 80's bikes were sort of semi-customs, like the CB750C and CM400/CM450C etc. etc.

 Juha
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