Finished my first motorcycle project today.
I bought a pair of bikes last month, a 1980 CX500 and a 1981 GL500 silverwing for parts.
The GL500 is stripped and gone, the CX needed a CDI module replaced and a good going over.
I painted the bike as it had faded from a nice burgundy colour to the most wonderfult catE36 M3 brown you've ever seen.
I took it for the first ride today, around the block, since it was my first time riding a motorcycle, ever.
I'm pretty happy with the results:
Welcome to your expensive new hobby.
Somebody makes a really bitchin' cafe kit for those.
I have a spare tank if you need one.
Is it bad that I can reference nearly any type of bike back to when it was featured in BikeExif?
Nice!
The Gulf Racing livery color scheme is pretty sweet. Are you going to keep the stadium seating, or are you going to switch it up? I really like the CX and GL v-twins, they're really clever bikes.
An update to my situation...
I passed my road test for my full motorcycle licence today, Yay me!
I'll post up some current pics of the bike shortly, I've done a bit more work to it. I've also bought another one, a CX650 Eurosport. It needs a starter clutch but I'm about halfway done.
Shawn
Updated.
New bars, mirrors, seat and a set of used HD Dyna Low Rider mufflers.
I put 200K on it on Sunday, the local classic motorcycle club had a group ride. The guy in the lead had a 1946 Indian Chief and boy did he haul ass.
I don't know a bit about them hondas but I like the style of them a bunch. I actually sold two harley mufflers to some young guy riding an ex500? which is basically the same bike you have looking. I just couldn't imagine strapping 20lbs to my bike, guy was nervous about his bike beeing too loud going to vegas. My blast is louder than a any stock harley so I guess I don't recognize sociatal norms like a silent bike.
looks like a poor/smart mans guzzi to me.
They're not any heavier than the stock Honda megaphones and they're not much louder because they;ve still got the baffles in them.
The guy I bought the mufflers from swapped them out for screamin' eagle muffler so his neighbours could hate him.
Honda proved they could build a better flying twin, then stopped making them.
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