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Black Friday - a Red 1965 Honda CB160

Alan F.

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I mentioned this project in the Budget Bikes and referred to vintagehondatwins.com and sohc4.com but I guess not enough pictures were showing without logging in, and we all like pictures but hate joining forums just to see them. So I asked if a thread here would go over well and the answers were all yes.

So I picked this up the day after Thanksgiving 2021, it'd been in this basement for 30 years. Bob says he got it from a buddy who bought it new and bored it to 1st oversize before the sale. It shows 18,748 miles and I handed Bob $160 for it and he helped me load the parts up. A forum member on vintagehondatwins called it Black Friday, and I ran with it.
 
I have a 67 I received at the end of HS in 1980. Rode that thing everywhere. Moved to the east coast and it sat for a while (OK, 10 years) before I rescued it from my uncle's garage where it wasn't very well protected. I plan to restore it soon, so look forward to hearing about any good parts places or other forums to lurk in for help.
 
You'll certainly want to visit vintagehondatwins.com I understand there is a really good CB160 community on Facebook too but I don't Facebook.

I think I bought a bunch of stuff from scramblercycle.com and a bunch from ebay, some stuff is still being made in Thailand, good quality but pricey.
 
Oh finally! Apparently I have to download each photo from Google photos before uploading them here, but it works!
 

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Some before & after derusting
 

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More rust free & clean
 

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Moving on
 

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Laced back up & new tires
 

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Jeez, louis... it's a "passion project" I love it, I can't wait to see it come together, and love those OG badges.
 
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Thanks. I'm not after a restoration, just knocking the rust off with Evaporust and keeping it off with CorrosionX.
 

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