I didn't document this along the way, but here are some pictures of my renewed 1975 cb400f. I've had the bike for about 7 years in New York City and it was always kind of snotty with a faded and dented blue tank, patchy chalky engine cases, cracked headlight bucket, leaky forks, crappy original rear shocks, leaky washers on the head bolts, busted tach and PO wiring from hell with a lot of twist&tape connections.
But was always reliable and fun, and it never left me stranded, and I absolutely loved the bike and rode it all over the place for years. So when I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn last year, I joined a garage near home and figured I'd do some much-deserved cleanup: renewed the wiring with connectors from Vintage Connections, solid-state regulator and a new rectifier, cleaned and dielectric greased every ground and electical connection, mini tach and speedo with idiot lights built into the face, tank painted black (by forum member Johnny5) with original decals, drilled rotor (by forum member elcheapo), added CL350 fork boots, generic chrome headlight, replaced copper crush washers and retorqued head bolts, cleaned carbs, rebuilt forks and did a mediocre polish job on forks, front caliper, engine cases and switches.
It's finally all back togther and running really great -- I took it down to the Velocity show in Williamsburg and people checked it out. Success!
Here's some cheap cell phone pictures -- I'll take more soon with a real camera and post soon.
