A Soldier's dirty old CB650 NiteHawk

So The kid next door tells me he got his first bike. He's recently back from Afganistan and his father gave him his '82 650 Nitehawk. His dad, old , crusty, funny 'Nam vet , who Loved his bike, gave it up to his son last week. The's fighting it out with cancer and went and got himself a scooter & gave the CB to his son. It ran like crap, busted up plastics, bent bar, & generally ran hard and put away wet. I was prety busy last week so thiss week I have been helping him out in return for Budweiser.
Here is what we got so far...
Carbs were just nasty, like the rst of this old bike. Pulled them cleaned them and so on. Swapped ot the rather crappy front brakes and rotors with ones off an 82 Gold Wing I had on the shelf.

Cut the old bars, welded a drag bar accross the base of them, inverted and cut the old CB signals off the 8" head light mounts and installed a 7" lite of an old Magna, added stock turn signals off a 90's CBR. Lowered the gage cluster by about 3''

The stock air box looked to be a vaction home to all sorts of critters so we are putting on UNI filter pods on the carbs.

The New owner of the bike decided that he wanted it painted, so what the hell, I'm a sucker and he's good people, so he picked colors to complement his ne HJC helmet and I went with it...








NOW.. I have no idea what to do with the badges yet. I stripped several coats of spray paint over the years. They look good, but I have to figure out what I'm gonna do with them.

 

Kinda reminds one of a Dolly Parton wig on Andrea Dworkin.

 

nice paint job...looks like u know what u doing ;!

 

Michael Angelo would be proud. Nice artwork. A-plus for helping a vet out and for beer, thats a definate bonus. The "stinkin badges" how bout silver wings and black letters?

 

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Thats good of you to use your skills to help a guy fix up his Dad's old bike Husband.

 

I'm so old I'm pretty sure I nailed em both back in the day. Yes, I was a heavy drinker back then.

 

Hub you are a good man and a true artist. That bike looks awesome :thumbsup::thumbsup: Hope you got a years supply of beer for that one!!

 

Nice paint-job! On the badges, what about one of the polishable metallic paints. Go on dark and buff out to chrome, etc. Or go with a black-chrome look? The playing card on the tank... Is that on vinyl or did you paint it?

 

The card is a vinyl sticker from Lethal Theat, he picked it up at the auto parts store. LOVE the black chrome idea, gonna have to remember that. I ended up priming all badges, painting them in the base color of the panel behind them. I used red for the "650" and the body light silver for the "nitewawk" badge. The Honda wing ened in black outline, and the text in the dark gunmetal. Both are in clear tonite & the rest of the body work is in final clear cooking in the booth tonite. Few things to nail tomorrow, bleed brakes, air filters on, oil breathers, clean & lube the chain, clean the bike in general. I'm looking forward to see it all cleaned up with its new paint & mods. Maybe a classy looking bike. Be a nice change after that damn CBR I finished a couple weeks ago.

 

I call it done. back to the bill-paying job tomorrow. I Had to swap out the old front master brake of an old V45 Magna, old one Leaked all over even with the new line.

I plan to turn out some bar ends for it on the lathe but ran outta waking hours. Added abut a pint of fuel in it and it fired up darn fast. Hope to play around with it abit more, I was on a time crunch facing going back to work.

 

My first bike in High School was an 82 cb650sc nighthawk. I fixed a bent subframe, replaced the forks, and cafe'd it out. I truly appreciate the work you put into that cool bike. I am sure your work is appreciated by the soldier.

BTW, those soldiers need a damm raise! Getting paid min wage is no way to treat our warriors.

 

Nice job Hub! That looks awesome. :thumbsup:

 

soldiers don't do it for the money... BTW your right they do need a raise...

 

About 90 minutes from finishing my work shift. Got a vaction day for tonite's shift. Plan to take a nap and then mabe get a few pics of this bike in the sun.

 

Nice job reserecting a pickled honda!!! That banjo bolt on the master looked nasty, glad u replaced it.

 

The entire master was junk. That one on it is off an 82 magna that fried on me a few years back. That old bike had been a great donor bike & lives in in more than one bike on the road now. On this one alone it has the master cylinder for front brakes, brake lines and 7" headlight. Was temted to use it's 1" smaller front wheel and slotted rotors on this bike but the raised white letter tires looked too damn good.

 

That bike looks awesome! Major kudos for helping out a young soldier; you da man!!!

 

VFRhusband, You are a great man, I am Applause you. We need more people like you in this world........

 

Fantastic!