Sonnystile 
Member
 Offline
Gender: 
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
 |
« on: October 07, 2011, 04:08:25 PM » |
|
First bike was a Frankenbike CB500 I pulled out of a barn in corn country Indiana. $500 and she ran. I ended up turning it into this. Was a fun way to learn my way around the bike and a great little around town bar-hopper. There were a total of three 500's involved in this. Best stock parts went into a decent daily rider that I sold to buy parts for this thing. The carcass was sold along with the cafe bike when I found my cherry... URL=http://img443.imageshack.us/i/img0286z.jpg/]  [/URL]   |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2011, 04:11:13 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2011, 04:13:28 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2011, 04:16:41 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2011, 04:26:46 PM » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2011, 04:30:12 PM » |
|
The wife's CA160 Baby Dream. One near miss and she's a back of the bike girl now...    |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2011, 04:34:59 PM » |
|
There was another stock 400F, a pair of 125's (CB & CL), another two stroke Suzuki Titan 500, and a pair of Yamaha Triples. Plus I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
I've been lucky to have had a chance to ride all these bikes and I have almost always gotten every penny back out of them when I sold them.
My motorcycle habit has actually been a pretty inexpensive hobby.
My current Nighthawk (Jolene) is taking me on my first road trip tomorrow. 150 miles out to Red River Gorge in Slade KY. I am super excited and the weather is gonna be PERFECT!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
fortyhourdays
Dining Room Mechanic
Senior Member
 Online
Gender:
Age: 29
Location: Nashville, TN
Bike: 1985 CB650SC "Ugly-Hawk"
Posts: 1552
Join Date: Sep, 2010
|
|
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2011, 06:53:14 PM » |
|
Wow, what a collection. You could open a CB museum if you still had them all  Thanks for sharing. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Jon
|
|
|
JB1290
--- NHF---
Offline
Gender:
Age: 39
Location: Kenosha Wisconsin
Bike: 1984 Nighthawk 650SC&1999 Suzuki Bandit 1200
Posts: 2971
Join Date: Dec, 2009
|
|
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2011, 09:07:00 PM » |
|
You're not a fan of the cafe style, are you?  Nice collection.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6
|
|
|
Sonnystile
Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 36
Location: Louisville KY
Bike: 1999 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 62
Join Date: Aug, 2011
|
|
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2011, 05:43:36 AM » |
|
You're not a fan of the cafe style, are you? Nice collection. Don't worry. I only ratted out the snotters and saved any good stock items. I know enough to know I'm no bike builder, but it was a good way to learn my way around a new hobby. With the Cherry 500, I ordered that seat and swapped out the pipes for NOS Jardine 4-1 because I was riding it everyday and didn't want to tear the seat or beat up the pipes. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
red78ta
Contributing Member
Offline
Gender:
Age: 33
Location: Cape Cod
Bike: 1997 CB750 Nighthawk
Posts: 191
Join Date: Sep, 2010
|
|
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2011, 06:05:28 PM » |
|
thanks for sharing! nice bikes! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
-All shall be well
1997 NH 750
1979 KZ650C3 (snow rescue)
|
|
|
ariwhiteboy
Child Psychologist (No, Really)
--- NHF---
Online
Gender:
Age: 26
Location: Rincon, Georgia
Bike: 1994 Honda CB1000 -"LiterHawk", 1992 Honda 750 Night Hawk (Totaled)
Posts: 8175
Join Date: Mar, 2010
Carpe Navitas
|
|
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2011, 08:39:33 PM » |
|
Very cool! I hope to look back one day on a double digit bike stable.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
What is good Phaedrus, what is not good? Need we ask anyone this?
|
|
|
|
