My Bike, Ragatha

I aqquired a 1972 Honda CL175 Scrambler from upstate Pennsylvania for $250 as a project bike.
This page is to show my progress of it's restoration.

After two weeks of testing the electrical and waiting on a part, I managed to get the bike to turn over and run.

At this point, the parts that were replaced were mainly electrical. Ignition coil and condenser, and the turn signal flasher relay.
After multiple tests and a second deeper cleaning of the carbuerators, I discovered the compression within the engine block was one-third the pressure specified in the original manual.
This means that I will have to rebuild the engine, possibly replace many gaskets and check the state of the cylinder heads inside the engine block.

When purchased, this motorcycle had 12,418 miles on the odometer with the trip counter at 531.4 miles.
The bike was last inspected in May of 1980 as per the sticker on the rear fender. The odometer reading at that time in 1980 was 6200 miles.
It's my assumption that after the inspection expiration in 1981, this bike was reserved for offroad use until it was eventually put into storage sometime in the late 1980s.
I make this assumption off of the date code on the tires showing that this motorcycle was still being rode or maintained some time after 1986.

On the bike, on a shroud over the drive chain cover I found a shop tag for a motorcycle shop named 'Bob's Cycle Shop' based out of Sayre, Pennsylvania.
There was a phone number embossed on the card, but it was from before the area code implementation, and I received an out of service tone when adding the corresponding area code (570)
I found an image of said shop from a facebook post about 6 years ago showing a photo of the building on fire.
Source
It's safe to say that the cycle shop is no longer in business.

Update (10-21) - The exhaust has been patched using some scrap muffler (picture here), it is crude, but was a learning process with the welding torch.