Hammer head

"The bike is a 1972 CB450. BCR Hammer Head tank & seat. Custom BCR battery relocation kit to wrap the rear shocks. Frame color is Anthrecite. Paint is black/green with anthrecite pin stripe. Green is an old color from a Toyota Corolla in the 70's. It took a while to choose. I don't have photoshop so it took days to settle on a stripe pattern and three rolls of tape. Wheels were coated semi-black and sent to Buccanan's for new stainless spokes and lacing. I used a front drum from a 1970 CL450 I had, loved the look. Forks rebuilt, tapered stem bearings. Engine was a complete tear down and rebuild +3 over bore. Polished everything possible. Homemade rear sets (BCR style), pegs machined stainless. BCR bars with 450 gauge. LED bolts in tree for neutral & hi beams. Stock handlebar mount holes filled and poished. New vintage switches for bars without kill switch. LED bolts for turn sigs, drilled out headlamp mounting bolts and threaded in the signal led's. BCR
head light brackets. Powdercoated upper shock tubes. Sectioned stock headlight ears to use for gator upper mounting. Hondaman electronic ignition. BCR velo stacks. CB900F rear shocks, disassembled & polished. Nickel plated chain. Rear set frame mounts custom made, lowered and moved back. BCR stainless pea shooter exhaust (my neighbors hate me now).  The biggest pain in the butt was the rear swing arm. It is 3" extended. The stock one just looks too short. So I made it longer. Then the shocks (the longest shocks with fork bottom) were too short, so I sectioned the shock mount off a CB550 swing arm and grafted it onto my arm. Then the center stand was too short for the new ride height, so again section two cennter stands together for the height while keeping it tight to the exhaust so it still looks cool when it up. The bike took 1.5 yrs to build and three CB450 bikes and a few CB550 parts. There are so many little details about the build I'd bore you.
In short I love the bike, everyone that sees it loves it, its original. After this, the rules change!"

-Kevin Dinsmoor

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