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CB 175
Last year I decided to buy my first Motorcycle after growing up riding dirt bikes and always having a passion for two wheel vehicles. I ended up finding an old 1973 CB175 on Craigslist and was immediately attracted to the bike. Something about vintage simplistic looking bikes are beautiful to me, but I assume so for many of you as well.
Anyways, I decided to meet up with the man and look at the bike. The bike looked fairly clean IMO besides a rust spot in the back right exhaust, but I could look over that. I rode the bike and it ran, but it didn’t like to idle, it would die if you weren’t giving it gas. This should have been an immediate warning sign, but I guess I was so naïve and excited by the bike that I assumed that I could just do minor repairs and throw a few more bucks into it.
I just recently took the bike into a local shop and they came back saying that the bike has no compression in the right cylinder. The estimated cost was $1000 for repair which is more than what I paid for the bike so I decided against it. I also assume at this point that won’t be the only problem I’ll run into with this bike and I’m not looking to spend more money on this bike than its worth. When I went to go pick up the bike from them, the owner of the shop said it may be worth taking it apart on my own time and tinkering with it, that being that these bikes are great for learning how to take apart and put back together. I decided I’ll look into it. W hen I got home I checked out a few threads about this bike and they seemed to have echoed what the owner had said.
I thought about it and I am saying f*%k it why not. I am young (18) and in my humble opinion, fairly competent. I know it’s A LOT easier said than done, but I am up for the challenge and instead of piecing out this beautiful bike or pawn it off on someone else I thought I at least get a life lesson or some skills/knowledge out of it. Even if it's a lost cause or I fail, I think its worth trying.
The Bike still does run, it's just constantly wants to die on me if not given gas but when it goes it goes (on a good day). This makes me believe that it's not a lost cause but I could just be giving myself false hope and could be wrong.
Anyways, this is my starting point. I am going to search other forums and threads to help better wrap my head around this bike, but if any of you have any idea or advice to help point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated! I'll try to answer any questions the best I can but again I am new to this!
I do have the filter covers, they are just off.
Last year I decided to buy my first Motorcycle after growing up riding dirt bikes and always having a passion for two wheel vehicles. I ended up finding an old 1973 CB175 on Craigslist and was immediately attracted to the bike. Something about vintage simplistic looking bikes are beautiful to me, but I assume so for many of you as well.
Anyways, I decided to meet up with the man and look at the bike. The bike looked fairly clean IMO besides a rust spot in the back right exhaust, but I could look over that. I rode the bike and it ran, but it didn’t like to idle, it would die if you weren’t giving it gas. This should have been an immediate warning sign, but I guess I was so naïve and excited by the bike that I assumed that I could just do minor repairs and throw a few more bucks into it.
I just recently took the bike into a local shop and they came back saying that the bike has no compression in the right cylinder. The estimated cost was $1000 for repair which is more than what I paid for the bike so I decided against it. I also assume at this point that won’t be the only problem I’ll run into with this bike and I’m not looking to spend more money on this bike than its worth. When I went to go pick up the bike from them, the owner of the shop said it may be worth taking it apart on my own time and tinkering with it, that being that these bikes are great for learning how to take apart and put back together. I decided I’ll look into it. W hen I got home I checked out a few threads about this bike and they seemed to have echoed what the owner had said.
I thought about it and I am saying f*%k it why not. I am young (18) and in my humble opinion, fairly competent. I know it’s A LOT easier said than done, but I am up for the challenge and instead of piecing out this beautiful bike or pawn it off on someone else I thought I at least get a life lesson or some skills/knowledge out of it. Even if it's a lost cause or I fail, I think its worth trying.
The Bike still does run, it's just constantly wants to die on me if not given gas but when it goes it goes (on a good day). This makes me believe that it's not a lost cause but I could just be giving myself false hope and could be wrong.
Anyways, this is my starting point. I am going to search other forums and threads to help better wrap my head around this bike, but if any of you have any idea or advice to help point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated! I'll try to answer any questions the best I can but again I am new to this!




I do have the filter covers, they are just off.