So this bike has a story. (who doesn't like a good story?) My dad saved this CB from a salvage yard some 16 or so years ago with the intention of getting it back together. Only problem was the reason it was in the salvage yard in the first place was because it had been through a flood. My dad picked it up along with a Suzuki 500 2 stroke also in the same flood for like 20 or 30 bucks for the pair. The motor was seized up along with the whole exhaust, and cylinders filled with sand. Needless to say there was A LOT of work to be done. He got both bikes running even rode around the Suzuki for quite a while, but couldn't do the same with the CB due to too many missing parts (as you can see in the pics) and not enough time or money to fix/replace them.
So jump ahead 7 or so years the bikes are now sitting long forgotten and me being 15 or 16 start to think, hey I want to ride that. So I ask my dad if he wants to start to fix it up, and HELL NO your not killing yourself on that thing, is the reply. Me being persistent for a few months ended up with a compromise, my moms old Honda K3 Scrambler. It didn't need nearly as much work and its a 350. So begins a summer of me getting that 350 running good enough to tool around on dirt roads. I mostly wanted to learn to ride a bike but also kept hope that if I didn't wreck the 350 maybe that 750 could still be mine.
Well I ended up going to college and what else so the bike sat for a few more years. I didn't give much thought to it over those years, but always wanted to get back to it once I graduated and had a job. Then one day while at home our phone rang. I picked it up and was rather surprised to hear my aunt who had years ago divorced my uncle on the other end. My uncle had just been killed while riding his Harley. I have never seen words completely and totally devastate someone like when I gave my dad that news.
It took my dad years before he would even look at a motorcycle again. At that point I knew that 750 would never be mine, and I didn't care. After seeing what my uncles death did to my dad I didn't want to think what would happen to him if it were ever me.
So I went on about my life, graduated college, got a job, got fired from that job, another job, and then engaged. That pretty much brings us to a few months ago. I was back home and went poking around in the old workshop looking for some random thing I thought was stored in there. Then I saw the CB again. Didn't think much at the time, but for some reason when I got back to my place I just hopped online and searched up CB 750. Found some youtube videos of CB's and some other sites that I browsed around on. On one of the sites someone mentioned Carpy and his bikes. So after a little help from Google and a few minutes on Carpy's web site (im sure you all know it no need to post it here) I saw his Koppa Cafe. I saw that supercharged copper flake sculpture and knew I had to get that CB back up and going.
I have been looking for parts, manuals, videos, how to's you name it for a CB 750 for months now. Also in those months I have been warming my dad up to the idea of working on that bike. At first he said no, end of story. I fully expected that, but he gradually warmed up to the idea after we talked several times. He's always loved bikes and working on anything with wheels and and engine from when he was a kid, and I know he has always wanted to ride that CB.
Now that's out of the way to what you all want to see, the bike.
Hey I did tell you it was in a flood and then sat for 16 years.
And this being my first post I need to ask a question. This bike is giving me mixed signals and I need to know what I got. Though you cant see in that pic it does have disk breaks in the back so at first I thought I had a Super Sport. But it's a 75 on the tag I didn't think Honda made a SS in 75 did they? Next is the engine. I plan on rebuilding it so is there a way I can tell what engine this thing has? To me it looks like a regular old K# engine but if it is an ss I need to know. I found one tag on the transmission area right above where the (starter?) cables come out of the case. It had CB750E on it.
I have lots more pics but didn't want to load up one post with a ton of them. If you guys can direct me to something that can help me identify the frame and engine 100% that's what I need at the moment. Also the bike is 2+ hour drive away so no I cant just hop over to my dads place and grab a quick photo.
Ok one more pic of it with a gas tank and after we took an air hose to it, can't let that one ugly pic be the only one on here of it.
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to god one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.
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