A neighbor/pilot buddy stopped by the other day and asked what I had been up to lately. I told him how it has been a motorcycle repair extravaganza lately in my shop as I ressurected my VF500, brought an old college buddy's '83 GPZ 550 back from the dead and another college buddy got his '77 RM370 tank restored. I then made a comment that I was kind of thinking about building up a cafe bike someday (which made my wife frown immediately
). Well my neighbor says he has an old CB450 sitting in his shop that he hasn't touched in 25yrs and if I wanted it, I could have it. My wife could have killed him right then
.
He had previously mentioned that he and his son's cruiser bikes have sat for a couple years and needed the carbs cleaned. I told him to bring em all over and I would get them going and then accept his free gift of the CB450. Well I got one fixed yesterday and am waiting on a new battery for the other one.
In the next few weeks, I will start tearing into the CB....It will be a great little project and who knows, maybe I will start a side business of fixing/restoring/custom building these old bikes....Would not make much money, but it sure would be fun working on these relatively small managable projects!
PS: I blame Souk, Dueller, Eric, Higgins etc for recent posts here showing pictures of these cool little cafe bikes. I must have mad cow disease or something....I jump back and forth on hobbies/projects much too often