new shifter

I am still hoping to get one made by Fab Kevin, but that is still a ways off, so I finally made an improvement on the duct tape wrapped flat bar:

new paint

three rattle cans later..........

OK this is where I'm at

OK this is where I'm at

The shovel is running right but in need of paint:





really happy with the new smaller 5 gal. tanks. Not so happy with the front tire and the rear fender. Waiting for a warm day to lay down some rattle can color.

The honda needs a bit more work. The plan is to get it running, then find a better tank for it. I'm not willing or able to spend any money on it unless it is up and running.

How It Began

I moved back to the states in 2000. I stayed with my Dad for a while and he taught me to ride on one of his harleys. He was a good teacher and even forgave me riding one of those harleys into a ditch the day I got my license.
A few months later, I finally got my first bike, a 1991 CB750 Nighthawk.

That bike served me well for six years. Two months after I got it I quit my job, put my stuff in storage and headed west. 10,000 miles in a month from NC to Cali and back again.
It was a commuter, it tore up the mountains in western NC and generally put up with my neglect and abuse.
Last year while the wife was out of town I bid on a shovelhead on Ebay and won. Surprise honey! I was looking for a motor for an old SOHC Cb750. I guess I should have mentioned that somewhere along the way I bought a pair of CBs with the intention of making a chopper, but that project kept getting put on hold.
Well the great deal of a shovel ended up being a broken backbone bastard of a project that took all last winter to tear down and put back together. In the course of it I decided that the nighthawk had to go because the greedy new bike needed money.
Sorry old friend, I hope someone is taking good care of you:

what

This blog is about my growing obsession with two wheeled transport.
I have an ongoing shovelhead project as well as an old beater cb750 project. Hopefully this blog will help motivate me to make some progress and turn these projects into completed bikes. Ha, yeah right!