White cb77
my '68 superhawk is identical to the one in the picture you posted. The front forks looks to be alloy and then painted on the top part of the forks. I cannot find one part painted black like others have posted but I'm nto su re what bracket you're talking about for the gas tank. If it's the one undder neath the tank mine is painted white and has a black rubber gasket. all my fenders are white as well and I cna't recall if the seat has that lttle lip on it.
Mine is all orginal as I knwo the orginal owner very well and he didn't change a thing on it. if you need some picures of it i would gladly take some for you if it will help. The search has ended.
After 35 years, MY White 68 Superhawk has found his way home. I was surfing the Internet last week when I stumbled upon a picture of the bike. Almost exactly as it was when I let it go, apehangers and all. I made the alternator cover when I was 16 in shop class, for lack of funds, and the pipes at my first job in 73. It even has the JC Whitney front fender that I used to replace the one smashed in the Parking lot of LCHS the last day of class 1972. I've got to say that the caretaker for the past 35 years has done a great justice to preserving this one as it was when I first had it. I'm gonna tidy this one up and leave it as it is. And it is NOT for sale.
Amazing story, flathead! Impressive tenacity you have, indeed.
I did a 'white-out' on my CB77 in '71. It occurred to me how great it would look after I spotted a CB450K0 dressed all in white. Mine was a rattle-can job and I was shocked how many I got through in order to cover the original blue and the silver! I ran out of money to buy the paint cans (I was 16 and newly-apprenticed) so I had to finish off the fork shrouds/legs with a brush and some white polyurethane household paint. In putting the bike back together I inadvertently put the carb slides in the wrong carbs and wondered why she black-smoked. Once again due to lack of funds I was forced to seek a solution (I'd had enough of this bike seemingly constantly absorbing my hard-earned...) so a 'mate', now living in Perth, W.A., offered to swap it for his lovely little 1967 C95; I jumped at that as I knew how economical the 150 was. Needless to say, he'd been given the heads-up by a Honda mechanic as to what was probably actually wrong with my 305! He did finish off the white job properly, though, and treated the CB77 with much greater respect than I ever did!! Thanks Waveblaster and Steve.
Seeing this bike for the first time last Thursday was an unbelievable experience. It almost appears to have been placed in a time capsule with only a few details that I can't remember changing from the 3000 mile 100% original we took home in 1971. I don't recall changing the shifter and rear peg to the front or adding the Scrambler filler tube and dipstick. Also the covers on the toolbox look handmade but they do look like something that I would have done. I just don't remember. I did repaint the original white Lacquer in 1974. The story behind how the bike left my possession is probably close to the same as many others. It was 1977. We were newly married in school and had a baby on the way. I was riding the bike to class and broke the clutch cable. I figure I could speedshift and make it home. Ripped third gear clean out and had to push about 1/2 mile to make it in. Money for repairs was not in the picture. I graduated college in 78. We moved into the old farmhouse on the in-laws farm. In 79 we had our second daughter. We were able to get our new house inhabitable, so we moved and left the bike, disassembled, at the old house. We had no storage and were barely in the dry ourselves. Mortgage interest rates hit 18-1/2% when we finally had the house ready to close. So, still no money for motorcycle repairs. In the meantime, my wife's brother and sister in-law needed a place to stay so they move in the farmhouse . Needless to say she was not interested in having a disassembled 305 Superhawk in the front bedroom. As I recall, one day I get a call and she says she has someone from work who wants to buy the bike. I don't have a place to store it, money to fix it, or money for diapers,gas, food, or things that we really needed. I can't remember if it was $10 or $50, but the bike went away. 10-15 years pass. Things get a bit better. People change jobs, names are forgotten, so there is no way to trace the bike down. I kind of figured it went to the scrapyard, but I always kept my eye open. I just so happened to have the original service record book with the frame and engine #'s penciled in. I figured that the best I could hope for was maybe some day I would locate the frame or engine. Then last Thursday, I was surfing the internet and only 30 miles from me is MY bike for sale. Not like I was expecting to find it, but put back together, running and very little if anything changed. The mileage was even very close at 11444 to where I recall it had been. Within 3 hours, I was at the bike with the service record book in my hand. Numbers verified. Only one problem. The bike was slated to go as a parts bike for a customers restoration. When I told the shop owner the story and my history with the bike, his comment was, "we gonna make this happen". What a stand up guy!! We did little talking and basically I was able to trade a running Superhawk and a few parts for the bike that I've been trying to replace for the last 20 years.
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