This is mybike I purchased from a one-armed man at the farmers market. One hundred bucks and this precious array of rust and rubber (aka a 1980 cx500D) was all mine. In order to get my bike road worthy I purchased a new frame with a title so I can register it under the new title (The previous owner lost the title and didn't want to go through the MD duplicate title process). I have never worked on a street bike before so this project will pop my cherry on bike building
The old frame is on the left and the new one is on the right. However I have currently encountred three major differences. One the bumpers for the tanks are different, I will grind the ones of and weld on tabs on the new one. The second is the seat/gas tank mount is one inch further forward on the new frame so I will cut off the old one and weld it on the new frame. The third is that the rear sissy bar tabs are 1 3/4 in thinner on the rear.......I will address this problem later
After about 4 hours of dissasebly my bike was in peices and on the shelf. Pretty simple I just put the engine on a tire and pulled the frame off of it.
A few hours into the assembly and this is how she looks. I am at somewhat of a standstill until I can figure out how to correct the frame and/or what I will do to it. I know the obvious solution for the tail is to cut it off and make it a one seater. But I would like to get it goin somewhat stock for the time bieng and keep it a two seater.
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