Craigslist ad said Cafe CB550, project bike, needs work. $300. He took $200 and delivered it. Figured worse case I would part it out, but I've said that before and have never been able to do it.
Bike came with a couple of boxes of parts and here's what they produced. Motor is pristine, clocks say only 5000 miles, tank is from a 450 and it kicks over very smoothly with lots of compression. All good. Sadly the wheels are rusted solid and only the front will roll. Oh, and there's zero paperwork, luckily it's out of the system and that should not cause too much drama.
Bike is a CB550F, meaning the Sport version with the four into one header alongside other tweaks. Either the motor has been stored indoors and the rest outside or it's from another bike. And so it begins...
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