Well done Mark, congratulations.
Now that your published how would you describe the overall experience?
Kind of like marriage: it started out as a real good idea, changed focus partway in for unforseen causes, became a lot of work after the second year, and then became the best thing I could have done!
My original intent was just to share my 40 years of experience with these bikes. When it became obvious that the technical part of it was going to be considerably more difficult to do (pictures in particular), I had to back away from the original approach and start over (this was in the Fall of 2006). Then I came to realize (mostly from the constant e-mail that I get) that we have a wonderful whole new [mostly younger] generation of SOHC4 lovers, but they never had the advantage (like me) of growing up working on these kinds of machines. But, they REALLY want to get into how they work and how to fix them up: heck, half the e-mailers are younger than the bikes!
So, I got a few CB750s to tear down and rebuild to make the pictures from, and hope to sell them this coming year to cover the costs of it all. Two of the three bikes are K3, one is a K2, so the pictures apply well to all but some special "F" features, directly (like wiring). I tried to make the engine rebuild and inspection portions a step-by-step approach, while including a Table of Contents within each chapter (lots of pages!) and an Index at the back to look individual stuff up for the 'focused' approach that a more experienced wrench might need.
We'll see how that turned out, I guess!
At least, with Lulu-type publishing, a future revision isn't as hard as a full rewrite, if I made any glaring errors.
