I just scored a used 86 Nighthawk S for cheap... it is the blue/white with red stripe one. I am looking for a right side cover panel and the headlight plastics. If anyone has some parts laying around theu would like to part with...
It was one year only.I worked after school at a Honda dealership,when I bought mine.We only had one,and I bought it,and later traded for our last vf1000r. I was the worst employee.Spent all my pay checks there!
Yeah my brother had that color scheme and when he died last year, his best friend asked to have the bike so he could restore it and ride it in honor of his memory. I hated to let it go but I couldn’t say no.
Traded my 79 CB750F in for one when I was in the Marines. Loved that bike, I had the red and black model
I bought my wife a blue/black one. She tried learning on my old V45 Sabre but that bike was too tall and too heavy. Like Goldilocks said, the CB700SC was just right. Used it to train my son on MCs too. Lowest maintenance bike I ever owned. No valve adjustments, no chain, ...just tires and brakes.
I'm rebuilding carbs for a '76 KZ900 for a neighbor and he has one of those blue/white Nighthawks in the corner of his basement and parts in boxes. I'll ask him what he's doing with it.
The shift forks are an Achilles heel on those. I know of two that have been sitting because the owners just don’t want to drop the engine and split the cases.
Got one like that in stalled, mid-project phase plus same year in blue & black (parts donor). Gotta get that project moving forward again
I got this bike a sad way, it was my best friends that ended his life rather suddenly almost 10 years ago. It hadn't been ridden since 2003 and was in extremely poor condition. His family gave it to me in 2014 and I stuck it in a shed, were it deteriorated even further. Last winter I told myself that I either sell it for parts or do a complete restore. I took it to a good friends shop (who also happens to be my son and I's WERA sponsor) and told him to make it right, no expenses spared. I need to find the video he sent me. Being a Nighthawk, it didn't take much to get it running again. But when he fired it up the first time in almost 20 years, "stuff" started coming out of the exhaust. And then more stuff, and more stuff. He swept up an entire industrial sized dust pan of walnut shells and mouse bones from the family that was living in the exhaust for who knows how many years. Bottom line, all expendables and the repairs cost about $1300. It was well worth it.
