CB1 (CB400F) VS gs500

[Cozzy]

I currently have 2 spare bikes, a 90 Honda CB1 and the GS500 crashed. My plan is to rebuild one of the bike as a track day bike. As I have no and money to rebulid both of them

what are your advice for chooseing it.

How does the CB-1 compare to the GS500? I want a complicative bike on track.

[nazgulnarsil]

gs500 will be MUCH easier to find parts for.  also a crashed CB-1 should be worth something to someone doing a restoration on another CB1 (spares)
sell the CB-1 and fund the gs500 transformation.   

[Cozzy]

actully the Cb-1 is still road going, somehow the gs was the broken one.

[ohgood]

actully the Cb-1 is still road going, somehow the gs was the broken one.

So, do you break the non-working gs out, or sell the working cb1 to FIX a broken bike ?

Tough choice ?

[RichDesmond]

I currently have 2 spare bikes, a 90 Honda CB1 and the GS500 crashed. My plan is to rebuild one of the bike as a track day bike. As I have no and money to rebulid both of them

what are your advice for chooseing it.

How does the CB-1 compare to the GS500? I want a complicative bike on track.

Neither bike will be competitive (I assume that's what you meant??) for racing. If that's the goal, sell both and buy a race-prepped SV650. For track days though there's no such thing as an uncompetitive bike, the point is to go out, have fun and become a better rider. The gap between the fast guys and the slow guys is much, much greater than the gap between a GS500 or CB1 and a GSX-R1000.

As to which bike, I'd need to know more about the condition of each of them.

[The Buddha]

Get a FZR400 ... if you want into that 400 category.
Cool.
Srinath.

[97gs500e]

Get a FZR400 ... if you want into that 400 category.
Cool.
Srinath.

+1

or get a sv650 track bike.  My brother found one that's all tricked out for only $2900.  There isn't enough aftermarket to make the gs500 an effective track toy like there is for the sv's or I4 600's..

[Cozzy]

the CB-1 is roadgoing, beside some leakeage here and there.

The GS500 need a set of fork and the frame need to be strighten, a front wheel a tank + more


Cheerz

[RichDesmond]

the CB-1 is roadgoing, beside some leakeage here and there.

The GS500 need a set of fork and the frame need to be strighten, a front wheel a tank + more


Cheerz

Doesn't sound like the GS is worth fixing. Part it out and ride the CB-1

[Cozzy]

As the matter of fact, I always want to get the project bike.

Put as a newbie, I have got alot of problems need to clearify before the start of the project.

No matter what bike i modify, I would like you to help me for the following.

1. When you modify you frok with a different front wheel, how do you get the corrent reading of the speed. Get the speedo with the whole front end of the other bike? What is the basic rule for chooseing an replacement frok, should i get one with the same lenght, or some thing that is slighty shorter??ppl told me a short frok would fasten the steering. I really have no idea.........

2. When you modify the swingarm, how do you get the corrent aligment for the rear wheel? also any rule for chooseing a replacement swing arn?