They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and we’ve certainly dragged our fair share of trashed motorcycles home. Wherever we scrounge them up, the rose-colored glasses wear the heaviest tint after you’ve bagged a neglected classic for cheap. But before you get carried away, it pays to take a good look at what you have and what you hope to do with it.
Since our CB550F tracker project needs to happen quickly and on a budget, a full engine overhaul wouldn’t really fit the program. So our first priority was getting this crusty classic motorcycle running.
If you caught Part One of our CB550 build, you know we’re on a mission to build a fun-loving urban tracker on an everyman budget—based on a doozy of a 1975 CB550F that we grabbed for just $400.…