I though I would put together a condensed story of the my bike and build and also throw in the before and after pictures since she got nominated for the bike of the month.
Well it all started when I got transferred to Florida for the coastguard, I really was hoping to get a hotrod/ratrod/ classic but after looking at many cars from a 49 Cadillac coupe Deville to a t-bucket to a 56 Buick and apparently everyone thinking their rust bucket is gold because its old rust! I decided that a better starter project would be a motorcycle I already had my 2005 vstar which has been absolutely 100% dependable, I went with something more classic and then the CB750 popped up on craigslist, the guy wanted 1200$ for a rusty, non running, flat tire, no electrical was working bike, I looked at it and offer 750$ he took that with ou missing a beat, that was when I knew I should had came in much lower. But none the less my buddy and I loaded it up in my truck and took it home, I immediately took a few pictures and started tearing it down. Finally I got it down to the frame and what do you know the oil filter bolt was seized and stripped! The next day my buddy came over with his old stick welder and we welded a monster bolt to the head of the old one and eventually we got it out and rebuilt the top end. From that point it took me about 2 years of working on it when I could to get it back on the road.
All the work I did my self except, after a failed attempt at a POR job on the frame I ended up just powder coating it. Also I had the tins painted locally, the seat pan I had professionally upholstered and I respoked my rear wheel and new rim, but I had it properly trued when I had the new tired put on. But pretty much everything else I did.
After my 2 years of work I am extremely happy with it and it is such a blast to ride, this forum has been such a wonderful experience and a tremendous help to many of my questions.
A huge Thanks to all involved and all that have helped through my first project, hopefully I can get my hands on another reasonable SOHC and go a different route with my next one.
Here are the rest of my pictures i took the other day all the before and afters i took