Re: possible parts source, I may check it out..

Posted by MarkPBG on
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/possible-parts-source-I-may-check-it-out-tp3472748p3481471.html

Checked it out and I liked it enough to put down a deposit. (I would have bought it outright, but his title was locked inside his dad's safe, so he didn't have it to show me he's the owner of the bike and I won't have trouble registering it) I'm returning tomorrow morning to take it home. It's in that nice of shape. Took a test drive and the engine pulls like a mule, smooth and steady, hits all the gears smoothly and with no unusual noises. All the lights work. Battery tested 12.3 V and running I was getting 14.74 V at the battery…so it looks like the charging system is good too. It was garage kept so there's almost no rust. Looked in the gas tank for rust and instead all I saw was the spot welds on the bottom seams through the nearly clear gas. Chain and sprockets were in great shape. Seat is good, only has a few threads just starting to unravel along the piping on the right side. It's got just under 27k miles and only has a few nicks, scratches and one small dent. Idles a little rough until it warms up, then it's fairly smooth with just the occasional sputter. (idle seems a little off…it wants to idle at around 1100 RPM. It already has a 4 into 1 exhaust system on it (brand unknown) and sounds NICE! There really was VERy little to use to argue the price down….which is GREAT by me! It has only a few issues, all relatively minor. The front has a slight imbalance at 30-35 MPH…a close look at the front rim and i saw a couple of shiny threads on a few spokes, so I know the front wheel will need a spoke adjustment/balancing. The two lines coming out of the fuel petcock leak about a shot glass of fuel every 10 minutes, so either the petcock is bad (couldn't tell if the leak was coming from the seam on the petcock or the lines themselves) OR the lines are cracked (no big deal, I replace all fuel and vacuum lines anyway when I buy an older vehicle. Are those two lines supposed to have hose clamps on them? They didn't. And the last issue is some minor electrical. The previous owner put a high output halogen headlight in the bike that was apparently too much for the charging system, so to keep it from draining the battery, the hi/lo beam switch was converted to an on/off switch. That is all, other than a tune up, that this bike needs.

The biggest difference I noticed between my old Katana sport bike and this CB750 (first time I ever rode one) was that on the sport bike, the power was very light on the bottom end. It didn't pull hard until you got it way up into the start of it's power band (6500-8000RPM). The CB750 is more like a powerful diesel, it PULLS from IDLE and just keeps pulling all the way up! I like it!


I ended up only talking him down to $1850. Not too bad considering how little I will have to do. I ended up offering him a little more to transport it to my shop since he had a truck and trailer…so now I don't need to rent a truck, buy ramps, buy tie downs, etc. It will save me a few hours…he said we could stop by the DMV on the way up and do the title transfer and get it registered so that will save me some time too. I'm 58 miles from him, so that's a 2 hour round trip for him!

All in all, if the title checks out tomorrow, I will be giving him the balance (left a deposit so he would KNOW I was serious) and it will be mine!!!!!

Did I mention this thing pulls HARD? lol