Predictably, after a few months and due in no small part to my befriending of a German who'd just bought a 1987 Kawasaki GT550, i needed more power as going full throttle on the motorway with him to keep up wasn't doing anyone any favours. The pic below gives you an idea of my feelings of inadequacy:
So, after doing some snooping around i found this heap on eBay.
It took some strategic bidding on my Dutch friend's iPhone in the middle of Amsterdam as i was on holiday working at an Ultimate Frisbee tournament at the time. I knew and still know nothing about Ultimate Frisbee other than mainland Euros love it like a cult.
Now then, this is not a pretty bike and i HATE machined wheels but it went forwards faster than the Volty and had 100cc's more than mein Deutsch freunde. It was cheap and the next best thing to what i really wanted, a 70's era CB350/500/550 etc, so the point is, i never really felt any affection towards it like i did the Volty. This was in the summer of 2011, so as the winter approached and the riding season ended i though i'd take it to bits and put it back together in order to try and figure out how bikes worked and learn how to maintain a classic bike in the future.
To cut a long story short, in January of this year i bought this 1977 CB550F in pretty bloody good condition off a top bloke in London who was selling it to buy a Bonnie:
I had every intention of selling the 650 to pay for it but when i went to start it, after being sat for a few months, it wasn't playing the game. I got the RAC out and after talking to the bloke about wanting to get a wreck with a smaller engine as a fixer upper he convinced me that i might as well do it to the 650. So it did.
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