Honda-SOHC

I've been riding Honda V4's since 1982 when the first ones came out. I got my V45 Sabre in May of 82' . I put 140k miles on it with no cam issues. My 84' Sabre 700 and the Interceptor have perfect cams. The Interceptor only has 14k miles on it but the Sabre has 31k miles on it. I know some people have had issues with the cam chain tensioner but it is easily fixable. The performance of the Honda V4 motors is awesome.

We got the Interceptor all done. Now I am waiting for a 2002 Honda Blackbird rear shock to arrive. I'm going to make another adaptor to fit it on the Interceptor. I have done the same mod to my 84' Honda Sabre 700 and it works great.

Today I repaired the stripped motor mount hole on the top of the cylinder head with a helicoil. I also started connecting the new wiring harness up to the coil and electronic ignition box. The new fuel line and stainless braided oil line arrived today and I ordered some 3/16" stainless braided line to replace the plastic rocker feed tubes. We are sending out the oil tank to get the upper mounting tab tig welded back on along with a brace I made for some additional strength.

Awesome project. We looked at one just like yours but it was too much money for the amount of work it was going to need. Some people want restored prices for their projects. We do have it's brothers, the 750F and 900F.

Those look like adjustable pre-load caps or they just made it easy to change fluid in the forks.

Yesterday we pulled apart the front end. We found that somebody had been there before us. I bet it was caused by too many wheelies. The bottom bolt on the left side was stripped and an assembly error on the right side. Because of the adjustable damping on the right side the aluminium piece at the bottom of the lower has a notch in it that acts as stop using the drain bolt to keep it from spinning when you turn the knob. Somebody had the piece lined up wrong and screwed the drain bolt in so hard it burrowed into the bottom piece. I had to use the wrench almost all the way out once it was broke free. I can't believe that it didn't strip the threads in the lower. Some people shouldn't be allowed to touch tools.

When I see lists of bikes like these I can't help wondering how many actually run? Please don't mistake this for envy; at one time I had 2 cars and 2 bikes on the road and having to keep up with tax, insurance and MOTs was like being an unpaid fleet manager! Never again.

Once the Interceptor is up and running that makes 9 out of 10 of our bikes ready to ride. Since spring of 17' we have resurrected 7 of our bikes and 2 for friends with just a ground up left to do on the 80' Suzuki GS1100E. My friend and I do this for fun, to have a variety of bikes to ride and some money. We don't have to get yearly inspections our our vehicles. Most of the bikes have classic plates so no annual fee and collector insurance which is cheaper. We build them to our personal safety standards which are much stricter than any inspection that I know of because that's what we do and we ride them.
For example today we assembled the Interceptors rear suspension after thoroughly cleaning every part and repacking all of the roller bearings with fresh moly grease and torquing to spec. I plan on riding this bike to the edge and don't want any issues. We go through all of the systems cleaning, servicing and repairing where needed.
It is so much fun to switch bikes one after another. Like riding the 79' CB750F and then the Moto Guzzi 1000 Le Mans. Both bikes are fast and really fun but go about it in completely different ways. In the end it's all about having as much fun as humanly possible on and with motorcycles.