Facebook, a Four, and more….

The good folks at Motorcycle Classics magazine posted a Facebook link to the story Jimbo Cavanaugh and I wrote on Mustang motorcycles last year…it’s always fun seeing that article publicized again.   It’s an interesting addition to the literature on the story of Mustang motorcycles.  I love old stuff and writing that story about Mustangs was a hoot.

My good buddy Bill, who lives about five houses away, is making a nice living as a retiree restoring Honda 750 Fours.   He mostly restores the KO models, which were the first year bikes with the sand cast cases and front brakes.

Bill recently completed restoration on a really gorgeous 750 Four in the green and gold color Honda had when then bike first came on the market in 1969 (about 5 years after Mustang stopped production).    Bill told me that bike sold on Ebay a couple of weeks ago for $16,016 dollars.  Wowee!

When I bought my 750 Four brand new in 1971, I paid $1559 for it.  It makes you wonder what a California Scooter will be worth in another 30 or 40 years.  I’m convinced these bikes are going to be collectibles.   Can you imagine what the twins’ two matching P-51 motorcycles might go for in, say, 2044?

We still have a little light left here on the West Coast and I think I’m going to fire up my future collectible (the Baja Blaster) and go for a putt around the neighborhood.

Tomorrow is going to be a fun day.  My buddy Marty and I are taking a ride out to Sun Valley to visit a stock making company (as in rifle stocks).   I bought a barreled action a couple of weeks ago (that’s a rifle without the stock), and I’m making a custom stock for it.   Actually, our trip tomorrow will be a second visit to the stock maker…we were out there to pick out the blank last week, and I selected a real pretty piece of English walnut with dark streaks that run the length of the stock.   When I pick it up tomorrow, the real work for me begins…the inletting, fitting, and finishing.  It’s going to be good, and I’ll post a photo of it when I’m done.

That’s it for now…I’m going for a motorcycle ride!

Ride safe and I’ll post again soon…