new shop

its been a little while! but we just began moving into our new shop this weekend.
we're right on state street now! we're getting everything organized and building our work benches right now. but once everything is up and going, we're having a shop-warming party.

the CB350 is back together, i tried kicking it over today, but ive still got some fine tuning to do it looks like

not too much news.
the CB350 head is at the machine shop getting new valve guides installed. hopefully itll be back together so i can ride it before it gets too cold.
we're waiting to start the XS650 chop until the CB350 is done and out of the shop. so i have that project to look forward to this winter.
the shadow is running perfectly as always.

business as usual.


-Greg

the CB750

we're getting started with the CB750 this week. heres the engine before we tore into it.
expect a giant cam, higher compression, and a lot more good stuff, we've got big plans for this thing

case covers

i just media blasted the engine case covers this morning. our powdercoater should be stopping by in an hour or two to pick these up, im pretty pumped! he always does a great job


thanks for checking it out
-Greg

the Shadow

here are some photos of another Regatta Garage bike in the process. we're building a nice simple soft-tail Shadow bobber, nothing too extravagent. this bike is nice because it hasnt had any big issues, everything has been relatively smooth so far.





*note the fuel gauge on the tank in the last photo

the CB350's engine

we torn into the CB's engine today to clean out the debris from sheering the bolts of of the cam sprocket. the covers came off to get powdercoated while we're at it.


it looks so sad without an engine/rear wheel

got a new angle grinder since my old one burnt out. hurray for the death wheel!

first post

i decided to start a blog because recently a few people have asked me if i have one. so this blog is being created to share my work as far as motorcycles go. ill be posting projects that im working on for friends, as well as the progress on my own bikes.

bare with me with i tweak and make adjustments to the layout of the blog layout

to start, this is my CB350 cafe racer:


its currently completely taken apart, the engine i thought was seized, but after removing the cam case breather, it turns out that the cam sprocket's bolts had sheered off! That means all i really need to do is replace two little bolts, ya can't really get luckier than that! i'm having Patrick Largin crack the case open to make sure that all the debris gets out, and also to check the bearings.

so in the mean time, im having the case covers powdercoated, and cleaning up the frame. if welded a lot of bolt holes shut, and cut off a lot of extra tabs that i dont need, like the tabs for the chain guard on the swingarm

here are a few more photos:


those last two images are of my roommate, to give some scale of size for the bike.

thanks for checking it out!
-Greg