Nathaniel Salzman

“Are you ready for a real bike?” Robb projected his question over the growl of The Mrs’ Honda CM400 as I pulled up to the open door at BlueCat Motors. Out front was my green Honda CB750.

Buying a nearly three decades-old Honda Goldwing is not an easy decision to explain. I wonder about it myself sometimes.

In our initial repair session with my 1974 Honda CB450 Supersport, Jeff and I were confident (if incorrect) that the engine had avoided disaster during it’s timing chain misadventures. Good compression and correct cam timing meant we were that much closer to getting the old pony running. In a follow-up session, we’d sorted out the – Read More –

On day two of resurrecting my 1981 Honda CB750 Custom, things were going well. The carbs were cleaned out, rebuilt and bench tested. Though I’d already done most of the work myself, by the end of our previous session Jeff, my Moto Dojo sensei, had turned me loose completely on the CB750.

It was late May when Jeff and I first investigated the internal engine health of my 1974 Honda CB450 Supersport resuscitation project. Good compression readings had us confident that the internals of the engine were probably okay. The bike was far from ready to run, though. The carburetors needed to be rebuilt. Parts of the – Read More –

If I’ve learned anything from working on motorcycles, it’s that only fools make plans. That is, at least where scheduling is concerned. Having a plan of what you’re doing and when you’d like to get it accomplished is good project management. However, what I’ve learned over and over is that making specific, scheduled plans for – Read More –