Good morning all,
Just thought I'd pop in and introduce myself as you'll probably be seeing a lot of me around here as of now.
I'm 26 years old, and never really been into bikes all that much. Wrenched on old cars with my dad for a long time though, so that is where my interest has always been....until I met my beautiful wife! She's always liked bikes, particularly 70's vintage bikes. So I thought I'd surprise her with a bike for our 2 year anniversary this year, so the hunt began!
Anyway, long story short, I wound up with way more than I initially went out looking for!
Attached is a picture of the deal that I couldn't refuse! I intended on buying one bike for my wife, and wound up with three and a half (one parts bike).
Here they are all packed into my little old garage:
in the front is a '75 cb 400.
middle is a '78 cb 550.
and in the back is a '74 cb 750.
All of the bikes run. The cb 550 is gorgeous. The cb 400 runs really nice....just needs a couple parts. I can't wait to get that one roadworthy. And the guy I bought the bikes from said the cb 750 ran awesome last year, as he had it registered and drove it, but he parked it after it had a few electric gremlins....so i'll try and chase those down.
parts bike is a '70 cb 750. On top of that, I have boxes, and boxes of spare parts....it'll take me awhile to go through it all to figure out what I all have. All in all, pretty excited...have something new to wrench on and throw money towards!
So here I am, a garage full of old Honda's later....I just ask that you be patient with me, as I have no idea what i'm doing!! I'll start with tearing down the 400 first, and finish that one into a nice driver for my wife. I'll leave the 550 as is for the time being, then get the 750 up and running after that.
Anyway, I'm really excited to get started on this. Nice to meet you all!
