I’m about to sell, with some sadness, my 1978 Honda CB400A “Hondamatic” motorcycle.

The front brake of my 1978 Honda CB400A (baby cafe racer – AKA “decaf”) went almost dead.

Labor Day 2013, Monday night, ~10pm The Bay Bridge opens 7 hours before the widely reported 5am tuesday reopening, after being completely closed for 5 full days.

After months of work, Russ finally gets his Ninja 600cc working!
Hunter, Russ, and I celebrate with an 85-mile day trip during the three day weekend around Mount Diablo, through the legendary Morgan Territory.

Russ and I changed our motorcycle’s oil and oil filters today.  This was the first time I’ve ever changed oil in a vehicle – I guess it sort of was a life goal I figured I’d never get around to – part of understanding cars/bikes more!   So it was a nice way to kick off the start of our 3-day holiday weekend.

Here’s a short video mid-way through a 50-mile day of canyons and twisties. Fun!

Everything is working again with my greatly streamlined instrument cluster is in place! (Well my LED “idiot light” for “neutral” is always on now so one last adjustment/fix sometime soon!)

Whups, my new speedo’s turn indicator LED was only going on when left signal was running.

OK, so I sorted out all my re-wiring and was able to replace my stock honda huge instrument cluster with a much smaller and streamlined single mini-speedometer with four instrument lights combined in it.

Today I did much more than I thought I would – I pulled out and disconnected all instruments and relocated the ignition/key switch.