So much better already. There were things about the '70's that were cruel to vehicles....
Favourite first bike and motor donor. To remain in "unmolested" state incase it deserves a proper resto some day. And then there's my son "Porsche" wearing his sister's pigtails for some reason. I suppose that reason is his tolerance of other people's sense of humor. He's going to drive over me with a track hoe some day.
A week'er two ago I went out to visit mom'n'pop, and Sr and I took shit off the cb. Most of it shall never return!
I'll recap as its been so long...
I have a '79 cm400t that i crashed when i was 20 or something. (this is not a picture of it) I never wanted to let go of the bike so I kept it on the farm and my little bro but dirt bike bars on it and we rode it around in it's wounded state for a few years. Sr. straightened the forks in the hydraulic press after the accident and we proceeded to thrash it soundly (but lovingly) for a number of years. It was terribly flogged as a dirt tracker/errand boy/dirt bike because it handled so well in a skid, we never wanted to drive it "properly". The motor was just so good i couldn't leave it in its vicious cycle of abuse/rot/no oil change/repeat. So at first i set out to restore it. Its pictured above somewhere, in maroon. But really it was to small for the highway left a little to be desired if I ever wanted to put any miles on. So I thought...."I simply must become just another douchebag building a back yard chopper!". So I bought a '78 cb400 with a bad valve and thought I'd start pulling desired parts to supplement the project. Then I realised that I couldn't take a torch to a beautiful vintage honda that was really not in to bad shape, 'cept it had been crashed a little. And I thought it deserved to be paid back for its mistreatment as something cooler than a motor transplant to an ugly ass $200 cb400. So the tables turned and fate took a bad, loose shit on the poor bastard cb. It became the donor bike, and the cm needed to provide only it's still beating heart. and its short shocks.
Awe fuck yeah! I just sent you those pics of the hardtailed cm/cb400. It looks like a REALLY easy way to hardtail that thing with awesome results. It's not like you're gonna ride the thing to Cali (although this guy did) so I say loose the suspension and pound your kidney's! We could weld that thing up in a day no problem.
ReplyDeleteVery pleased to see you're workin on it. If you need any extras, I've got 10 gallons+ of extra shit I ain't usin.
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