Project Supercub

One 1982 Honda C70

Because everybody needs more than one project, I've initiated Project Supercub.  I've acquired a 1982 Honda C70 which will become a sleek & mean street machine.

Honest!


So, here's the starting point.  She's a lovely blue pizza delivery bike with 34 years behind it and hopefully many more years ahead of it under my stewardship.

Complete with pizza box and L-plate

First things first, let's get stripping and see what we're dealing with.

As you can see, the frame looks to be in excellent condition.  There's some rot at the end of the mudguard, where they all go, but that's to be expected and is also completely irrelevant for this build.

Mostly stripped and in bloody good nick

All structural elements are in fine fettle and she looks like she'd scrub up okay with a bit of wire wool and a respray, but that would be far too easy!

My tame technician getting chop-happy

Further stripping (not photographed, unfortunately) has seen the fuel tank (pretty much mint), front wheel, front fender, handlebars & headstock, centre stand, forks and wiring loom removed.  In fact, everything removable has been removed.

Next up: removing the non-removables.

De-seaming

A rusty gash

As previously mentioned, that rusty mudguard has been whipped off, leaving a much sleeker and curvier rear end (albeit one with nowhere to mount any lights or a number plate, but I'll figure something out...)

Then there's that unsightly seam running from the back of the fuel tank all the way down the spine of the bike.  Yuck.  Let's get rid of that, please.

And that's about all the progress for now.  Once the seam is welded up and ground level, the frame, tank, forks, swinger and sundries will be heading off to be dipped, blasted and electro-plated and then...  Um...  Well, I'll just have to see how it goes.  There'll be some paint.  And I've bought a ridiculous amount of lighting options.

Many, many thanks to the very talented Ben Thompson at Majestic Motors for his time, advice and skills so far.

A lighting option

Stay tooned.