Building a Honda CA95 from Scratch-Where's The Bike Now?

[kartgreen]

The color should look awesome ! Wife and I look forward to seeing your projects in a couple of weeks .

[Smithers]

Heh that's the same color I'm painting my new (old) Dodge diesel truck! Well mines more of a blood metallic color but we'll see how they spray.

[Spokes]

Getting closer. The engine is almost finished. New tires are in. Body work and painting started.

[Smithers]

Looking great! All decked out with Allen head screws. How about the tires which ones did you go with? *EDIT* Woops I just found the tires thread. I'm jealous. Those tires looks comfortable and safe - unlike my original rubber hehe. Your tire link

[Spokes]

The engine from many motors is complete with exception of a few screws.

The small bike parts are painted and waiting. I will paint the rest of the bike this week late. Meanwhile I am polishing hubs and spokes. If it rains I lace and true wheels, if dry I will paint. After paint will be wire harness and turn signal wiring.

Getting close.

[Spokes]

Finally getting some painting done. Below is the tank with a mild two tone color.

[Spokes]

Here's a pic of the painted parts so far. I finally found a lower chain guard and it's being shipped to me. Once I get it, I will get the lower and upper chain guard sandblasted and get it in line for painting. I should be done painting in 10 days or so. Then I will start the wiring (including the turn signal wiring.)

[weestrom05]

that looks great, bot the engine and the frame. I makes me wonder if i really want to just preserve mine. Curt Is there a torque value to use when changing to the allen heads or does one just tighten them. I'm going to chsnge the clutch side when I put mine back together.

[Spokes]

To restore, customize or keep original is a personal choice. There is no wrong answer. I'm a custom guy. I get a kick out of stopping all of the corrosion and adding years back to the metal. This project is custom. A build from scratch trick. So the bike never was...until now.

Be carefull with the stainless allen head screws. Remember stainless is way harder than aluminum. I tighten by feel, snug is plenty tight. After the engine gets hot for the 1st time, snug the screws a bit more.

[Spokes]

6-14-2011

The front fender flair is finished and ready for paint along with the lower chain guard. I would not make a big deal out of this task, but getting the fender and lower chain guard right was a challenge.

[joeficsit]

I love the fact that this bike "never was" and now here it is.

[Spokes]

Time Stamp 6-25-2011

You really can't tell which frame and parts are the Build from Scratch project and which parts are the CA160 restore project. This is a pic of all of the parts on their paint stands. Today is the 1st sanding of the first coat of paint. Some minor flaws are being worked out as well.

Each of the parts shown is absolutly rust free and clean as the day they were made.


Below is the engine in waiting.

[SinjinLe]

Nice work!

[Smithers]

Not that is an awesome looking engine. It's pretty exciting seeing all the finish working coming together.

[Sam Green]

Looking good Chip, don't get the frames mixed up.

Sam.