CB500 Frame prep

Rather like passing the shortest day of the year, it feels like I have hit a milestone now that the bike is in pieces.

The pendulum begins to swing back

Everything I do now is progress towards a working bike rather than taking something apart. The mucky work is very much not over though as there are parts to clean, a tank to strip, an engine to sort and a frame that needs some TLC!

Sand and sand and sand and...

As much as I would like to go the whole hog and get everything shot blasted and powder coated I need to be realistic. This was always going to be a learning project, and as such the initial bike was at a price I could afford to write off if things went wrong. With that in mind the clean up and re build is going to be more rattle can and less powder coating.

This may take a while

Sanding and scrapng the frame is a much longer and time consuming job, but I am willing to put time in if it keeps the bill low. Little by little the frame revealed itself and to be honest isn't in too bad condition at all.

Next time... time to start cleaning, prepping and then rebuilding...