For the first time in 2 years, I'm actually working on a bike!!!!
A bit of history. I sold this bike to a fellow triple enthuisiast (bone stock H2b) back in 2004. His plan was to build a CR90 tribute bike.
Cylinders were sent to Darren Abrams at Lauren's Racing and received Denco 120HP Porting. Crank rebuilt and then that was it.....Frame was painted and some parts were rechromed.. Then the whole thing sat for 10 years due to a busy work schedule.
Coincidentally, during this time, I was assembling "correct" pieces to do a CR90 replica as well. Correct DID wheels, Correct denco clubman bars. 34mm carbs, Even had a white H2b bodyset sprayed and ready to go. The only thing I was missing was the frame and engine..
Fast forward to last winter and one thing leads to another and I buy my old bike back.
So, last winter right after I got it home, I stripped the engine down just to "make sure" everything was good (it wasn't !!
I made a post about it at the time ), fixed what needed fixing and that was that.
I've finally got a bit of winter free time to put this thing together and a couple of days ago I DUG IN. So this is where she sits right now. The front end being completed. I forgot how many parts I had already prepped, and it's been fun just bolting on parts instead of spending hours at the polishing wheel and/or sending stuff out/rebuilding things.
Basically, my goal is to replicate the bike on the front cover of April 1975 BIG BIKE magazine as closely as possible....
and here's a pic of Tony on one of a handful that were ever built....
and when I say "handful", I mean, that there are probably only 2 or 3 of these bikes left in existence. Jim Hinshaws being the only "known" complete example left. Although Tony told me that he believed there may be one in the midwest somewhere. (Ohio or Indiana?)
Here's a photo of Jim's.