DetroitStyle
Club Member
I have the title, has about 15000 miles IIRC...
I started a café build on a different CB200 and bought this bike as a visual reference for when it came time to reassemble my project. I was told that it ran when parked. I noticed that there was surface rust inside the gas tank and I parked it and never touched it.
Last week, I threw a clean tank on it and was able to get it to sputter to life for a few seconds, however my donor tank had a leaky petcock and I immediately shut it off and pulled that tank off. It does run.
It is being sold with the original tank, which will need cleaning, but is solid. I am waiting a 5 gallon bucket of Metal Rescue ($100!!!) that I plan on using to de-rust the tank for this thing. If that arrives before I sell the bike, I'm going to clean the tank, throw some clubman café bars on it and go fishing for $1500 on eBay. If you pay my asking price, I'll throw the clubmans in with the bike and you can have yourself a $1000 café racer!
Other things needed:
- fuel lines
- throttle cable adjustment/replacement. It works, but it's sloppy
- right side exhaust has some holes
overall, it's VERY solid for being 40 years old. Recent "café" CB200s have sold for $1600-$1800 on eBay. Selling the stock seat (very good condition) and stock airfilters (rare, hard to find) would get you half of your money back. Again, the seat, fenders, chrome bits, wheels, etc are all in very good condition. Not perfect, but come on, it's 40 years old!
Located in Milan MI, just south of Ann Arbor
I started a café build on a different CB200 and bought this bike as a visual reference for when it came time to reassemble my project. I was told that it ran when parked. I noticed that there was surface rust inside the gas tank and I parked it and never touched it.
Last week, I threw a clean tank on it and was able to get it to sputter to life for a few seconds, however my donor tank had a leaky petcock and I immediately shut it off and pulled that tank off. It does run.
It is being sold with the original tank, which will need cleaning, but is solid. I am waiting a 5 gallon bucket of Metal Rescue ($100!!!) that I plan on using to de-rust the tank for this thing. If that arrives before I sell the bike, I'm going to clean the tank, throw some clubman café bars on it and go fishing for $1500 on eBay. If you pay my asking price, I'll throw the clubmans in with the bike and you can have yourself a $1000 café racer!
Other things needed:
- fuel lines
- throttle cable adjustment/replacement. It works, but it's sloppy
- right side exhaust has some holes
overall, it's VERY solid for being 40 years old. Recent "café" CB200s have sold for $1600-$1800 on eBay. Selling the stock seat (very good condition) and stock airfilters (rare, hard to find) would get you half of your money back. Again, the seat, fenders, chrome bits, wheels, etc are all in very good condition. Not perfect, but come on, it's 40 years old!
Located in Milan MI, just south of Ann Arbor
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