When a dog ran out in front of Nick Acosta’s 1974 CB750K it changed his world. He had just done a little brake work and was taking his bike for a spin when a canine torpedo shot out to attack his wheel.
Nick tried evasive maneuvers, only to end up totaling the bike and severing his calf muscle.

?I had just picked up and installed my freshly painted tank two days earlier. I was so disappointed?, Nick says. ?The bike was a brat/cafe cross and everything was lost.?
Clip-ons, Motogadget bar-end indicators, forks, a wheel?everything was done for, except Nick’s love for building and riding.

?We don’t get a long riding season here in Canada. I had a month of intensive therapy for my injuries and spent that time thinking of how I could rebuild the bike and get back to riding.? With a fire to create something special from the wreckage, Nick began doing all the things he was ?eventually going to do with the bike?. But now he had time and a stronger motivation.

Nick had never tackled a full build, but learning something new wasn’t strange to him. ?My dad is a carpenter and my mom is a chocolatier. I grew up in a very ‘hands on’ kind of environment?.
With a cafe racer project in mind and months of therapy ahead, Nick started watching videos and reading about rebuilding Honda’s iconic inline 4.

The CB750 got a complete teardown. Inspection, cleaning, honing and rebuilding kept Nick busy for a short time. He installed a new Dynatek igni...