A CB750 barn find.

[sailchef]

Actually its been in my shed the last 20 years.

I am following thru on something I said I would do.

In a post by Tangerine911S CB550 Cafe Racer...DONE! I told him I would dig out an old Honda that I had stashed.


I had posted a pic of my 1973 CB750 taken in Killington Vermont back in 1979. I said I would take other pictures when I could. Last week I dug back into the shed at my beach house and pushed her out into the sunshine.
This was the picture taken 30 years ago




This is a picture of the same bike taken last week, minus the fairing. I rode it hard and literally put it away wet a long time ago. It has been covered ever since.











High tech back then was to lower the rear end



When I bought it it had 1500 miles on it.







I've kept it tuned and have started it at least once a year. It still runs great. I had the carbs rebuilt @10 years ago and they may have 20 miles on them. I don't think I will ever "rebuild" it only because it has lasted this long as is and there is to much history in the "dirt", and, after 35 years, it still fits.

In 1978, when I was 25 years old, I rode this bike from Burlington Vermont, to Jackson Hole Wyoming. I had taken a job at The Jackson Lake Lodge as a chef and this got me there. A year later I took a chefs job at The Arizona Biltmore and again, showed up on my CB750. In the late 70's I spent several years working in resort hotels and national parks thru out the US and this was my transportation. Somewhere is a photo of me sitting on this bike at the edge of the Grand Canyon

Man, looking back, my life was really nuts!

Anyway, I just wanted to share this with the forum, and thank Tangerine911S for bringing back a Whole Lotta memories.

[pwd72s]

Thanks for sharing...now wait for the offers to start coming in...

[porsche4life]

Awesome story about an awesome bike..... Not sure I'd cafe it it with that story... Just shine up and keep loving it....

[rouxroux]

Ah, memories! Diggin' on the Windjammer...Did you have the lowers for it? Talk about HOT in the summer!

[sailchef]

Originally Posted by rouxroux

Ah, memories! Diggin' on the Windjammer...Did you have the lowers for it? Talk about HOT in the summer!

Around 1981 I was going thru Michigan on my way home back to Vermont, it was early winter, I ran into freezing temperatures and my shins where getting numb. I pulled into a small town off of an Interstate exit ramp and across the highway was a local newspaper. This was long before the digital/internet days. I looked at the newspaper building and knew that they used the tin sheets to print the paper. I rode around the back of the building and laying out back in a huge pile were hundreds of these tin sheets. I went inside and asked if I could have one. Right there in the parking lot I used a knife and duct tape to fabricate a set of lowers on the spot. The remaining 500 miles were a lot warmer.

[pwd72s]

That's a problem with bikes..they have lousy heaters & windshield wipers..

[Jagshund]

I often miss the days when everything I owned fit on my back.