The Bikeshite Thread

[Guest Hooli]

Aye looks good that.

[Guest Hooli]

My CBX has been on loan to a mate for the last couple of weeks. I turned up yesterday to pick it up & it was dead... no dash lights at all. Very strange, because he'd ridden it to work and back that very day.

 

Plenty of juice in the battery though, so I checked the ignition switch. One of the solder connections at the back of the switch had given way and the wire was hanging loose 

 

Luckily it hadn't happened while my mate was riding the bike, he doesn't understand how vehicles work.

 

Even more luckily, one of his neighbours saw me stripping the ignition barrel out & came over with a gas soldering iron, a reel of solder & a tin of flux, so 5 mins later I'd fixed it

 

I had a wire fall out of a multiplug on my RF600, so all the ignition went dead. Coasted the thing a mile or so downhill to the town I could see & managed to find a shop selling crimps to bodge it up. The bodge was still there when I sold it.

[DodgeRover]

This just showed up for an MOT at a friends place:

 

https://m.facebook.com/100007192545905/posts/pcb.1922032044713195/?photo_id=1922031984713201&mds=%2Fphotos%2Fviewer%2F%3Fphotoset_token%3Dpcb.1922032044713195%26photo%3D1922031984713201%26profileid%3D522207758%26source%3D48%26refid%3D7%26_ft_%3Dqid.6466360052861311136%253Amf_story_key.193623124674184053%26__tn__%3DEH-R%26cached_data%3Dtrue%26ftid%3D&mdf=1

 

Sorry I can't work out how to get the photos over from Facebook

 

For the more technically challenged (i.e me) here are the photos I was dribbling over!

 

 

 

I should have bought one when they were affordable....

[yellowperil]

For the more technically challenged (i.e me) here are the photos I was dribbling over!

 

  rd1.jpg

 

  rd2.jpg

 

I should have bought one when they were affordable....

That Martini paintwork really suits that.

 

I used to ride these when they were cheap and the poseurs had moved on, they would look down on you for riding an older bike.

I paid £400 for my last one and used it as a winter bike, a role it was entirely unsuited for because it was very loud and in a very high state of tune.

 

 

It's funny how it has gone full circle now.

[srad34]

The clear fuel bowls on the carbs are spectacular!

[twosmoke300]

No premix in them tho - doing it wrong

[hairnet]

[strangeangel]

I have, only last night, bought a fine 2-wheeled conveyance, and by my standards it is practically new (2009)! And as if that weren't enough, it boasts the biggest engine I have ever owned in such a device... exciting times.

 

This means that fleet reduction must happen, and not the AS version of fleet reduction where you buy three and sell one either. So if anyone's interested in owning a Mobylette, or a manky Russian 175cc 2-stroke, or maybe even a Honda Trail 90 - watch this space. I'll get some pictures and prices up at the weekend.

[hairnet]

Wot u by m9

 

Trail pics or else

[Jerzy Woking]

Trial 90 sounds interesting....

[strangeangel]

Wot u by m9

 

Trail pics or else

 

Despite being modern, it has pretty good shite credentials: shitcanned after only three model years in Europe, a kind of white elephant: no-one really knew what it was - cruiser, tourer or scooter - and neither did the people who made it. It was expensive, too, so nobody bought one. I thought they were great, naturally, and have coveted this one for a couple of years now.

[doug]

Honda Pacific Coast??*

 

*cancel that, too old.

[strangeangel]

Honda Pacific Coast??

 

I love those, but no. They were discontinued back in the 90s too. You're on the right track though!

[Jazoli]

Nah I recon its a DN-01

 

[strangeangel]

Yep

 

[doug]

Ooooh thats....................sorry stuck for wurdz.

[strangeangel]

Ooooh thats....................sorry stuck for wurdz.

 

I think that was always the reaction to these

[Guest Hooli]

I see one of those regularly in Donny. Driven (badly) buy a 40stone monster that I think is of the female variety.

[strangeangel]

I see one of those regularly in Donny. Driven (badly) buy a 40stone monster that I think is of the female variety.

 

That's definitely not the one I've bought!

[Dave_Q]

Ooooh thats....................sorry stuck for wurdz.

I'm gonna give it a go.

 

It looks like someone partially sighted tried to make a pan-european look like a Ducati 916, using plasticine and a shovel.

 

I like it.

[UltraWomble]

Mobylette,

 

or a manky Russian 175cc 2-stroke,

 

or maybe even a Honda Trail 90

Pictures

Location

Price

 

Interested in all of these, realistically probably only got room for one ( depending on price)

[strangeangel]

Pictures

Location

Price

 

Interested in all of these, realistically probably only got room for one ( depending on price)

 

Will get my act together at the weekend, I promise. All of this has happened very quickly indeed. The DN's owner only just decided that he wanted to downsize...

[DodgeRover]

Just looked up the Honda trail it looks like the bikes Aus Post used to have

[hairnet]

the actual fuck???

[strangeangel]

Just looked up the Honda trail it looks like the bikes Aus Post used to have

 

Mine is the 89cc version from the US (this pic is not my bike, but the right year - 1967):

 

 

Not sure if I want to part with that yet though...

[strangeangel]

the actual fuck???

 

LOL did you not see that coming?

[hairnet]

its not gonna fit in the bx

[UltraWomble]

Will get my act together at the weekend, I promise. All of this has happened very quickly indeed. The DN's owner only just decided that he wanted to downsize...

Might need a van at this rate when I come to get the Honda Bastard...

[hairnet]

y that and not nc700d??

[strangeangel]

y that and not nc700d??

 

BECAUSE EVERY1 HAZ NC700D