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Sadly, I read today that Mr Pirsig died today at age 88.

So-what is going on that it has been put into running condition? Is Mr. Pirsig going to ride it? What are the plans for this bike, if I'm not being too nosy. This may be the most famous motorcycle in the world, and it's been hiding out for all these years. Are those Harley saddlebags still around th...

I just got the new edition of the British magazine "Classic Bike"-it has a nice pair of 305s on the cover, and a good article and road test of a '64 CB77 and a '67 CL77.

The right-side cover is often cracked at the kickstart bushing-it seems to be one of the rare weak points of this machine. The bushing itself is a plastic material, and these days often crumbles to pieces. My 305 had a long,nasty bead of weld clear across the right-side cover, so I got another on eb...

Seeing as how it is some sort of plastic, it doesn't take much to drive it out. I usually use a socket that is just a little bit smaller in diameter to tap the bushing out.

I'm putting my Superhawk back together, and I noticed the same thing-the shifter lever was a very sloppy fit on the bolt, allowing the shifter to move so much as to be able to hit my freshly refinished primary cover, which just ain't gonna do. I was thinking I'd slip some thin feeler gage stock in t...

Thanks to another forum member, it looks like I've found one!