Alan's white 1965 Honda S90

[Alan F.]

I found it yesterday on Craigslist, called in sick today and went to bring it back. Bob was the original owner and had bought it in 1965. The odometer shows 19551.9 miles but was probably removed when the glass shattered. Bob had outfitted this bike for off-road duty as was fairly common. An extended swingarm, aftermarket rear shocks trials tires, a sawed-off muffler and a 54 tooth rear sprocket were all it took.

A new unused muffler in serviceable condition, new fork springs, spring bushings and gaitors are included. The fuel tank is quite good inside, some rust but but surprisingly clean. The original petcock is still there and another was included, not oem I think.
The chrome panels are 8/10 and so are the rubber knee pads. The tank badges are both present, rough but present.
Fenders and seat are present and there is a front tire Michelin City dated 2019 that I might offer up for the cost of shipping.

I like the white paint and will search and ask around to see if something close is easily available. At first I was thinking that white appliance epoxy would do well, but I think it's just too bright, thoughts?

 

[stl360+450]

Niiice. When I saw that sprocket, I had a sudden longing (insofar as that is possible) to ride that bike. Are you planning to do away with that aspect of the build?

 

[Alan F.]

Yes, I'll go back to stock.

I counted 54 or 56 teeth on that sprocket... It's up for grabs for postage as well as that 1.25" stretched swingarm. Thankfully Bob included a second, stock length swingarm.

 

[RobMan]

I have a white 1965 Honda S90 gifted to me from an old boss. I used a Duplicolor Ford color which I thought matched very well. See the pics below. Yes I know the fenders are supposed to be silver but I liked the black contrast. Only did a top end rebuild previously and has developed a number of oil leaks so pulling the engine this winter for a full tear down and rebuild. This will probably be my go to bike all too soon. The 450 is one heavy beast compared to the 90.

 

[73Goblin]

Was just running that very color down at a local automotive mix shop Thursday afternoon.

I rode Ghost (my '65 CB160) to have them try and dupe the color - get as close as possible to original - given a need to paint her side covers. She spent the majority of her life in a garage, so there's very limited sun damage/fading and figured that that would be the best opportunity to get a color match.

The tech was exceptionally thorough in picking 4 separate locations for testing and ran the color test 5 times on each. He told me the quality codes returned fall within a range of 1 - 30 with the lowest number being best. He said that 1 is a 'perfect match' as though you were buying paint from the mfr.

Across all tests the codes came back averaging 2.75 with a better representation average of just over 2 for 3 of the 4 locations. He discarded the reading from the forth location and made up some paint based on the other 3. The image below is their sys spec; single stage with sheen rating just above semi-gloss.

Disclaimer: I've not sprayed yet and wasn't planning to for another couple weeks. I still need to prep the covers and my schedule isn't allowing for that right now. But all of the information is there in the image should that be at all helpful.

Cheers!