cb750-1 build/entry: part 2

The wheels were quite corroded. Re-lacing was out of the budget, so I simply glass bead blasted them and clear powder coated the whole wheel. Good thing to have a oven (barely) big enough to hold the rims. Although I had to leave the oven door a crack open for the front one... worked anyway.

All the wheel bearings turned out to be in good shape, so a good cleaning and fresh grease gave them a second life. I switched the headstock bearings to good used tapered ones that I salvaged off another bike. After glass bead blasting and powder coating the triple trees and lower forks, sanding and polishing the 6 inch over fork legs, the front end went back in the frame.

Michael
Nashville/TN