Tis The Season... For Bikes.

74Dusted said
That's beautiful. You guys are contributing some high quality bike **** to the thread :glasses7:

The last new bikes I checked out were Harleys and Indians. The Harley dealer... well, that dude had an attitude and acted like he didn't even want me near the bikes (and I was shopping to buy). So my friends and I went a couple miles down the road to the Indian dealer (3 of us were looking to buy bikes...well 2 were looking to buy their first bikes and I was looking to expand my collection).

The Indian dealer, he was a nice guy. Let us all try out the bikes we thought would be a good fit. As soon as he found out I was into vintage japanese bikes, he says "You've gotta see the back room, man." It was all 60's - 80's Jap bikes that people had traded in or sold.

My first street bike was a '75 Honda CB550 that I did up in a cafe racer style. Dual disks up front, clip on's, solo seat and rear-sets located off the passenger peg hangers. I ran that bike around in a bunch of different configurations, pretty much tore it down every few weeks and changed a bunch of stuff. This is one of the later versions, using a heavily modified CB750 fuel tank. That was after I got rid of the airbox and rewired the whole thing to hide all of the electrics under the seat.

This is the same bike even later, mocked up with an old Ducati tank and a new solo seat with the frame modified to match and with a nice shouldered aluminum front rim. I never rode it like this though, I bought the Speed Triple and never got around to re-doing all the electrics again. My girlfriends stock CB550F is in the background. I've still got a few of the vintage bikes, but I've got too many car projects at the moment to work on them. I'll be lucky to get the Speed Triple to the track this year.