Topic: CB750s must be growing on trees up north!

[jrrobertsjr]

So my good friend KGhost tells me he knows a guy with ‘72 CB750 for sale. I can hardly believe it when I find out it is 250 bucks. I figure for 250 the thing has got to be a rolling turd but my other CB is a ’72 (frame at least) and I am thinking well at least I could get some spares parts out of it. So I send KGhost the coins.

Problem is the bike is in Michigan and I am in Texas. Without incriminating anybody, the bike somehow makes it Texas traveling at .86 Mach backwards at about 40,000 feet. (Beat that for the fastest CB750!)

So KGhost sends me a little film of the parts bike.

http://www.tonuphouston.com/images/carbs/jrsmc.wmv

I am freaking out at this point. It is a runner and it is complete. 14,000 miles and in really good shape. No parts bike here. This is the new project.

[andy750]

Wow great deal!! I want one of those!! 

Good buy,
Andy

[GroovieGhoulie]

I am in Texas as well and there are NO CBs to be had down here.  I am convinced that up north, they are so prolific that they line the streets with the keys in the ignition for people to just take if they want one.

[Bob Wessner]

In many places, a key is not a requirement. 

[eldar]

If they are up north, they sure are not in my area! I almost never see them around or anything!

[Rhonda750F]

Hey Kghost, ya know af any body else in michigan that has a runner for $250.
I'll take one please!  and you don't have to fly it to me, I'll pick it up.

[Rushoid]

 

OK, I'm jealous. They must be further north than me, 'cause I've seen 2 other SOHC4s around here in the last year. They might all be hidden away in garages. Why can't I find deals like that?

[Chris Schneiter]

All right Michigan people! WHO'S RESPONSIBLE??? Who let this out of the state?!!!!!!!

[tsp37]

When I bought my bike, I was looking for one in good shape (I did not want a project) and everthing that I was interested in was up nawth.  I made a six hour drive north to Dayton, Ohio, to pick up my precious from an original owner who wanted the garage space.

My theory is the good bikes are put in the garage in the fall and rarely come out again.  After all, if you are not smitten with motorcycles, it is easy to leave the bike put away under the junk that has collected on it until next weekend, and next weekend never comes.  Why screw with getting that old motorcycle going when you could be watching a ball game?  Disinterested southern owners leave their bikes outside, and 25 or 30 years of weather destroys them.  The local bikes that I saw were sun-rotted and rusted, and I still see motorcyles parked outside that never move.

If you want a nice vintage bike, look to the land of garages and snowmobiles.

[masonryman]

I bought a cb 550 for $200.00 in 2002 it had been sitting for around 20 years. I cleaned the carbs rode it for two years, then I cut it up to make it better and I'm still working on it

When life gets too easy we find a way to make it harder.

I'd sure like to find a 750 for a couple bills

Mark

[Soos]

I personally got 2 '79cb650's within a week last year.
Go figure the liuck, 'cause after I found out how little is compatible between '79 and almost all the other yearsof the SOHC 650.
i think even in '80 the airbox is on the right, not left sidelike the '79.

IF all goes well, I will be pickuping up my next CB bike in about a week or two.
A '74 750 thats sat in view since '84 or '85.
Has a pair of pants draped over the guages, they look AWESOME! almost mint. the guages, not the pants 
It has  ?4-6" over front forks, shorty 4-4 trumpet exhaust,12" rise buckhorn handlebars,  king/queen seat, and sissy bar.
IF he isn't fibbin' .. it supposedly has a 836 kit as well as a hot cam. With less than 5000 miles on overbore/cam.
Old school chopper? No frame modifications..
He was asking 300 or 350 i think.
Too bad he doesn't have the carbs...At least I will have a real reason for buying new carbs instead of rebuilding old/tired sets.

 

If i had the money, theres a place just outside of salt lake city that has 3 cb650 motors(2 are '79's!!)
a TON of cb750 motors. $100 a pop.
A few cb750 frames, and LOTS of parts, but you gotta guess what they are from. They just seperate by part, not by make/year of anything.
I got a '79cb650 tank with less rust than i though possible on a tank that old at that place.

They are out there.... If i only had the money, I would fill my garage...

not including me, i've only seen 2 or 3 cb's on the road around here last summer/fall.(provo to salt lake city)
Saw a few go for little/nothing in the paper towards fall.



Looking to having my credit cards paid off in a few months!
I already plan on saving for the fall deals this year ....

[6pkrunner]

Here they come in clusters. You may see the odd one on the road and if you can find the owner, he's got 4 or 5 of them. Same if you stumble across them in some guy's garage. If he has one, he's got 4 or 5.

[kghost]

I do so love stealing them from michigan tho....

[74cb750]

Must be something in north like you say. A few years ago I had 8 cb750's
now down to 2 runners and one parts bike.
Oh oh, I have just be classified.
peace,
michel