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Long boring stories to be avoided out of the gate. After having fallen madly in lust with riding, due mostly to its ability to make the gloomies go away and calm the PTSD demons, I was forced to sell my first love the 1984 Honda V65. Booze and playstation filled the void for a few years, but was ultimately not able to sustain me. Seeing this my fantastic spouse demanded I find another 80 something bike and make it mine as I did my previous affair. Cut to semi recently, spouse went out and rescued a 1980 CB900 from a redneck who had blatantly mistreated it. And thats where we begin.
So I was able to start and ride this thing, but there was a batt. charging issue and my break light wouldn't work and the clutch slipped, and and and...
So I have torn it down about 75%. I did not have the motivation to do a motor rebuild seeing as I had it running and it moved under its own power previously. The things I have done so far are replaced the clutch disks. That was as far as I got because the bike didn't feel it necessary to charge the battery, and I could not accept that.
The bike is really cool, and I felt had Honda given it a more aggressive posture that this would have been a crowd favorite. I personally hate the feel of bias ply tires, and I traded those out on my V65 for Avon radials of a slightly larger size, which I get is a no no to alot of folks, but it was worth it just in how the thing handled. So I opted to do this again, only problem was that the rims were not a size that allowed me to do this. Funny thing Honda did with the CB900 in 1983, they made a 1000cc that was literally just a bored over 900 with larger rims. My imagination did horrible things as ebay commanded my attention. New Z bars, street fighter dual 4" side by side headlights, forks/ triple tree/ front brakes from an 84 V65, M-Unit V.2, and some other silly stuff found its way to my door. Below you will see the stuff I've completed.
This was the horrid paint scheme the redneck had on the tank and side covers.
On the right are the V65 forks that will rake the front out 2 degrees.
Paint colors will be this hammered copper, bullitt green tank and side covers and texture black everything else. Cleaned up my rotor, which amazingly tested fine. Couple of other shots, nothing amazing.
I might add that the wiring harness was super gnarly and melted together, so I'm doing a custom harness with an M-Unit at the heart. Doubt I'll get it done before this riding season but I also plan on adding a dynacoil electronic ignition too. But thats where I'm at.
Started to mock it up. The stem/neck was a redneck job from hell... I'll get a proper spacer made up soon *more on this cluster fuck later*. Also replaced the neck and swing arm bearings and packed new grease into everything I could.
Long boring stories to be avoided out of the gate. After having fallen madly in lust with riding, due mostly to its ability to make the gloomies go away and calm the PTSD demons, I was forced to sell my first love the 1984 Honda V65. Booze and playstation filled the void for a few years, but was ultimately not able to sustain me. Seeing this my fantastic spouse demanded I find another 80 something bike and make it mine as I did my previous affair. Cut to semi recently, spouse went out and rescued a 1980 CB900 from a redneck who had blatantly mistreated it. And thats where we begin.
So I was able to start and ride this thing, but there was a batt. charging issue and my break light wouldn't work and the clutch slipped, and and and...
So I have torn it down about 75%. I did not have the motivation to do a motor rebuild seeing as I had it running and it moved under its own power previously. The things I have done so far are replaced the clutch disks. That was as far as I got because the bike didn't feel it necessary to charge the battery, and I could not accept that.
The bike is really cool, and I felt had Honda given it a more aggressive posture that this would have been a crowd favorite. I personally hate the feel of bias ply tires, and I traded those out on my V65 for Avon radials of a slightly larger size, which I get is a no no to alot of folks, but it was worth it just in how the thing handled. So I opted to do this again, only problem was that the rims were not a size that allowed me to do this. Funny thing Honda did with the CB900 in 1983, they made a 1000cc that was literally just a bored over 900 with larger rims. My imagination did horrible things as ebay commanded my attention. New Z bars, street fighter dual 4" side by side headlights, forks/ triple tree/ front brakes from an 84 V65, M-Unit V.2, and some other silly stuff found its way to my door. Below you will see the stuff I've completed.
This was the horrid paint scheme the redneck had on the tank and side covers.
On the right are the V65 forks that will rake the front out 2 degrees.
Paint colors will be this hammered copper, bullitt green tank and side covers and texture black everything else. Cleaned up my rotor, which amazingly tested fine. Couple of other shots, nothing amazing.
I might add that the wiring harness was super gnarly and melted together, so I'm doing a custom harness with an M-Unit at the heart. Doubt I'll get it done before this riding season but I also plan on adding a dynacoil electronic ignition too. But thats where I'm at.
Started to mock it up. The stem/neck was a redneck job from hell... I'll get a proper spacer made up soon *more on this cluster fuck later*. Also replaced the neck and swing arm bearings and packed new grease into everything I could.
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