And by "my" I mean it. She came to me as a 1975 CB750F, barely runing and all rusted up. The previous owner ran her to the ground, drove 80 miles a day for 3 years, and never even changed the oil. Since he couldn't get her to run, I picked her up for $850
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After 3 straight days of cleaning, hitting the chromes and frame with rubbing compound, she looked at least ridable.
Rubbing coumpound does miracle on lightly pitted chromes.
Saved from the hells of neglection :
But since it's my bike, I have to make it my own. A hit of my rebel side combined with my love of aviation, I came up with that : A cafe racer based on the P51 gunfighter.
Easy thing first, remove the handlebars, install clubman handlebars, drill/groove as necessary to run electrical. Talking about electrical ... nothing worked. Armed with the testlight & factory diagram, reroute wires 1 by 1. Since I was at it, I removed the front/back blinkers and installed the sexy BMW handlebars blinkers.
Electrical all working, removed the dummy tree light between the speedo/tach and installed the Neutral & LowOilPressure light in the headlight cover. On to the carbs. Removed the 4 carbs, took appart, soaked/cleaned.
Reinstalled, kick started and started right away. Still has minor issues with iddle, but otherwise runing squeaking.
