{"id":13233,"date":"2026-02-23T12:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=13233"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:20:21","slug":"the-cb750-makes-it-to-steeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/the-cb750-makes-it-to-steeles\/","title":{"rendered":"The CB750 Makes It To Steele’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spotted my old CB750 at Steele’s.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

As I had pretty much expected it would, my old 1980 Honda CB750 Custom has made it to Steele’s Cycle.<\/p>\n

I was at Steele’s awhile ago following Tyler as he broke a Ninja down into parts<\/a> and we were out in the yard at one point. Walking along a row of bikes I saw a bit of blue, a shade of blue that I’m extremely familiar with, and I looked closer. It was my Honda.<\/p>\n

The funny thing was that I did not immediately recognize it as being my bike; I only thought it was another bike of the same vintage. I pointed it out to Tyler and he asked if this was in fact my bike and I told him no, it was just another like the one I had.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until that evening over dinner when I was telling Judy about it that it dawned on me that no, of course it was my bike. I had noticed that, hmmm, this CB750 has the same kind of sissybar my bike had. But somehow that had not jarred me awareness. But telling her I realized it was my bike. And I went back to look at it the next time I was at Steele’s and it was so obvious I can hardly believe I didn’t realize that the first time.<\/p>\n

There was the same case guard, the same highway pegs, the same side panel on one side from a different year’s model. Of course this was my bike. But when I first saw it it did not have so much that I had come to associate with the bike, stuff I had stripped off the bike at the tow yard when I went to look at it after the crash. Without all that stuff it just didn’t seem like mine.<\/p>\n

I pointed it out to Rick Steele and he said that considering I got hit head-on the bike didn’t suffer as much damage as it might have. But when I mentioned the cost of bailing it out of the tow lot he got it instantly–way more to bail it out than it would be worth. He said he gets a lot of bikes from that particular tow lot.<\/p>\n

As I said, I was not at all surprised. I expected it would end up there and in fact it has probably been sitting there ever since last summer. Now two of my old bikes are at Steele’s. They’ve had my old Concours for a couple years now and at least it’s sitting inside and may eventually be fixed up and sold. It looks like the Honda is just destined for parts.<\/p>\n

If anybody needs some parts for a 1980 Honda CB750 Custom I know where you can find them.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

New Year, New Dreams, New Roads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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