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1978 Honda CB750
Custom bobber-influenced hard-tail chopper.
A work in progress.

This started life as a 1978 Honda CB750.  A couple of friends got the idea to chop it up in 2007, I think. I loved it and I bought it in the summer of 2008 as soon as the owner said he was interested in selling it. The frame and other elements were cut and custom welded by Brad Rearden. I’m pretty sure Dean Beattie did some engine work on it too.

Since then I’ve removed and replaced the original disk-equipped front wheel and added a drum brake from a CB350/450 (I think). Rick Keen helped me do this. He and I also replaced the fork seals,  refilled them with new fork oil, and added some fork covers. Pictures coming soon.

I have put up a (very) plain HTML version of Robert Prisig’s Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance here. It’s not the best format to read it in, but it’ll do in a pinch.

I haven’t read it in full in this form, and I didn’t do the conversion to HTML, so please feel free to let me know if it’s incomplete.

I recommend this book whenever possible to fellow riders. It’s likely the only “Zen and the Art of…” books that’s worth a the paper it’s printed on. I used to hand them out in the Spring, one or two of you may have one of those floating around.

Anyway, enjoy.