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1 more week and my bike is ready for the road

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Just like the subject says, I've had this bike for almost a year and a half now, and it was a rusted basket case then. Now shes almost done. I should have everything done by the end of the week except maybe a mastercylinder. All I have left is to finish the valve adjustment tomorrow, new tires, speedo cable, and chain and shes ready to go. This is how she looked after I put her together and cleaned most of the surface rust and years of dirt off


and this is what she looks like now


I can wait, its been a LONG time coming and its seemed like I've been working on this bike forever. I'm going to ride the piss out of it

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1980 Honda CB750
1972 Oldsmobile 442
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yes and not exactly. I used a subframe from a mid 70s F bikes, and I had to shorten that like 4 inches, the front tang out the seat had to be narrowed to fit where the original seat tang went but amazingly was in the right spot, I had to modify the slot the tang fit into also. Then I had to trim some of the endge of the fender bottom end up because it sat right on the sub frame

When I say modify, that means me using a hacksaw, cut off wheel, or a small dremel cut off wheel for the "pricision" cutting. Then also me welding alot too

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Well it has to stay a 2 seater cause my girl would be very pissed if she couldn't ride on it. I am itching to cut the rear pegs off though and shorten up the seat cause thats a lot of dead weight right there

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yea it is a cheap primer black

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