HondaCB650

ORIGINAL POST: Apr 15, 2016 Had a hard time figuring out where the horn goes; it had been relocated when the fairing was put on, and the mounting point is missing from the fiche. I finally felt all around the front of the frame until I found the mounting point hidden behind all those wires. The par...

ORIGINAL POST: Apr 5, 2016 So here it is stripped: http://newcenturycomputers.net/temp/stripped-100_6030.jpg The fairing installation did not, it appears, require cutting any of the stock wiring harness. It all looks pretty good: http://newcenturycomputers.net/temp/stripped-100_6032.jpg Here are th...

ORIGINAL POST: Apr 4, 2016 My daughter spent some time cleaning up the bike, while I set about removing the unwanted parts. I rigged the fairing with a rope sling to the rafters in my garage so I wouldn't have to try to hold on to it while removing the bolts. It was a good thing, because the mounti...

ORIGINAL POST: Apr 4, 2016 These pictures are all as-we-found-it, incidentally. The story has it that the original owner bought it new around 1980. The bike had inspection stickers in two places: high up on the left fork tube, hidden by the fairing, and on the lower left fork slider (as you may not...

NOTE: I'm reposting this from another, less model-specific forum. I'm not going to edit the posts much, so please take into account that this spans over a larger period of time than you'd expect given the posting date. ORIGINAL POST: Apr 4, 2016 I'm not going to call this a restoration, exactly. My ...