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I am finally back to work on the Super Hawk. I was slowed down because it took me a couple months to get my blast cabinet ready to go. I didn't know anything about media blasting so I had a lot to learn in order not to screw it up. Here is the cabinet.
KIMG0502 by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr
The first piece I blasted was the swingarm.
KIMG0159 by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr
I was able to get it perfectly clean in just a few minutes. I primed, painted and clear coated it and installed it. I was very happy to get the Super Hawk back on two wheels. You might remember I DID have it on two wheels last spring but then I noticed my swingarm was bent.
KIMG0500 by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr
KIMG0499 by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr
Here is a link to a short video of work started on the chainguard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1KpVYOPJd4

at least I won't make this mistake again. It looked like a factory hole. If I knew these bikes well enough I guess I would of noticed it while I was prepping it. I'm going to have to weld it up. Which of course means ruining the paint.
KIMG0522 by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr

I was pretty frustrated yesterday when I noticed my boneheaded oversight on the rear fender. Today was much better. I was the first CBX guy to show up for this 79 CBX . It's ratty but the motor turns over and it has good compression. And surprisingly, for a CBX with no crash bars, the fins and the cases are perfect. I mentioned this to the seller and he showed me a huge scar on his left leg where he saved the left side of the motor many years ago. I am not going to start on it until the CB160 and CB77 are done.

photo (11) by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr
photo (7) by Steve Steverinomeister, on Flickr

Now that just makes sense, make a boneheaded mistake and for therapy go out and buy another bike! Sounds like something I'd do! :) You got the right year CBX, that's the high HP one. Talked with a fellow that lives not far from me who has 3 '82's, one with 28K miles, one with 2.8K and third has 3 actual miles.

Hey Dick
Does that guy with those 82's have a hanger out at the airport full of bikes? I haven't ever seen it, I just have heard about it. I've got an 82 with 1.5 miles on it. The naysayers accuse the super low mile CBX's of being tech school bikes which is sometimes true for the 81's but not the 82's. After Honda built too many 81's and wound up giving many of them to tech schools they cut back on production for 82. Some of the 82's did sit in the showrooms for a long time, mine wasn't sold until 86. The man who bought mine had a Ducati Norton Dealership in Pennsylvania and he displayed it there for a few years before putting it in storage. I've read that he is something of a legend in his part of the country and he has since passed away. As a tribute to him I left his Norton Ducati Dealer Sticker on the windscreen right where he placed it so many years ago.
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Steve

You could lose a bit of sleep doing the valves on that. I always thought that it would make a nice 500 triple if you cut one in half.......

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Steverino wrote:Hey Dick
Does that guy with those 82's have a hanger out at the airport full of bikes? I haven't ever seen it, I just have heard about it. I've got an 82 with 1.5 miles on it.
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Steve, this guy has a nursery in Orient, he was the owner of Pacifico and the inventor of the original "Snuff r Not".

George Morgan of St Johns Honda had for yrs '82's in the crate, I'm thinking well into the late '80's before they were sold. I wonder if John Taylor still has that '04(?) Honda Rune in the crate?