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[Fabergé Greggs]

It's a yammy RXS100, in pretty gleaming condition as it was extensively restored a couple of years ago. There's a little patch of rust on the tank here and there and a little bit on the mudguard. It's been throughly looked after and runs like a wee dream- very peppy with a satisfying power band from 5-8000. It'll happily trundle along at low revs but it's way more fun than the equivalent 4 stroke if you fancy pretending to be Rossi or Stoner or what have you. The gears are nicely spaced, it handles great and it generally ring ting tings with the best of them.

 

It's mot'd until April but "will fly through another one".

 

Now the bad- it could be the oil pump but I've got a feeling the crank seals are gone- it can be a bit smokey. I've been riding around like this for yonks and it doesn't affect the runnin at all- the spark plug is a wee bit oily but it always starts without problem. It's a dead simple engine so I'm sure it'd be an afternoon for a person with time and space- I live in a flat and work like a dog so unfortunately have neither...

The battery is knackered but I have everything here to convert it to 12v including a brand new battery which ill chuck in for a shiter.

The thread for the right hand mirror is stripped but I have a new clamp coming at the weekend.

 

I would get it fixed but I actually think that a scooter would be better for me- I'm always hopping between one place or another for work and this makes my shoes all grimy. There. I said it. Plus I've got a major itch for an LML Vespa replica and there's one for sale and I may pounce this weekend..

 

I'll take some pics ASAP

 

Price is £600. If it don't sell I'll keep it and have a pop at doing the seals on the pavement come the summer.

 

 

[jonathan_dyane]

Mind that looks well bonnie! GLWS

[UltraWomble]

My first proper geared bike was an RXS in that shade of red - H179 NPU

I didnt have it long before I got a bigger one, but mine smoked like a beagle too - twas ace.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, they all do that. It's when it stops smoking you need to worry!

[spartacus]

Yep, I had a blue one, it too used to leave a colour co ordinated trail of smoke behind it, they really 'all do that'!

[wuvvum]

My first "proper" (>50cc) bike was a W-reg RS100, which was basically this bike's older brother.  That was great fun when it got into its power band.  The gearing was dreadful though - massive gap between second and third, so going up steep hills it was either bouncing off the limiter in second (about 28mph) or bogging down in third.  They may have improved this on the RXS though.  The RS also had a frame which felt like it had been hacksawed in half and then loosely tied back together with hairy string - although it was so light it didn't really matter. 

 

Had great fun on that bike for about six months - it was dead reliable, longest trip I did on it was down to Earls Court for the motor show.  I traded it in for an X-reg Honda CB125T, which I had for ages and went all over the country on.

[Cavcraft]

Love it! iirc, the only (engine) difference between these and the RS100 was the 'energy induction' unit and I seem to recall they could be fitted to the RS motor. As others have said, they will/do smoke like a bastard, but you need to try riding a KH250 round for ages in a high gear and low speed before opening it up big time, then you'll know what fumes are like!

LMLs are cheap, but (with respect) have a read up on them, as it would seem general consensus is they're pretty awful. 

[bub2006]

Lovely bikes,I had a g plater in the same colour. Like the 6v cub in the background too. And yes,mine smoked like a chimney too

[strangeangel]

I would get it fixed but I actually think that a scooter would be better for me- I'm always hopping between one place or another for work and this makes my shoes all grimy. There. I said it. Plus I've got a major itch for an LML Vespa replica and there's one for sale and I may pounce this weekend..

 

A modern T&G would be fine, but a trad Vespa/LML will be utter misery to ride, even compared to that C90. I think the worst of the reliability problems that Cavcraft mentions (most notably snapping crankshafts) have been sorted, but they're still not brilliant and as a riding experience they are truly grim; slow, wobbly handling, shit brakes, nasty twist-grip gearchange etc. etc.

 

I would personally just fix the RXS. They're cracking little things and yours looks a good 'un.

[garbaldy]

I always preferred the yb100 with the nice rotary valve sound, I always used to wonder why they made 100cc bikes anyway, at 16 you could ride a 50 and at 17 you had 125 throbbing ccs at your disposal.

[Slartibartfast]

My Dad had an RX100 when we lived in India (they were crazy popular there in the mid 90s). It was a fine steed.

[Eddie Honda]

It was cheaper on the old days as a rider policy band was 100-225cc for a 125.

 

I nearly bought a new YB100 in 1992. It was 975 quid, a RXS100 would have been £1100. I think a Suzi GP100 was somewhere in between. In the end I bottled out and bought a 1983 Honda H100SD for £550.

[Cavcraft]

Massive difference between YB and RS too, the £125 extra would have been well worth it.

[PiperCub]

It was cheaper on the old days as a rider policy band was 100-225cc for a 125.

 

I nearly bought a new YB100 in 1992. It was 975 quid, a RXS100 would have been £1100. I think a Suzi GP100 was somewhere in between. In the end I bottled out and bought a 1983 Honda H100SD for £550.

 

Ah, rider policies, they were great, my first 'Up to 100cc' was £32 a year (context - 1986!)

 

You're right, the GP was better than the YB but way behind the RXS. When I started riding and wanted a pass-your-test bike, I wanted an RXS but couldn't find one so had to settle for a GP100, not exactly outstanding but it was only a case of buy, fix, polish,pass test, polish/tart up, sell.

Have ridden several RS & RXS's since and think they are ace little bikes & aside from the 6V electrics and drum front, were pretty equal with most 125's of the day but way cheaper to run and less highly strung. 

[New POD]

Ah, rider policies, they were great, my first 'Up to 100cc' was £32 a year (context - 1986!)

 

You're right, the GP was better than the YB but way behind the RXS. When I started riding and wanted a pass-your-test bike, I wanted an RXS but couldn't find one so had to settle for a GP100, not exactly outstanding but it was only a case of buy, fix, polish,pass test, polish/tart up, sell.

Have ridden several RS & RXS's since and think they are ace little bikes & aside from the 6V electrics and drum front, were pretty equal with most 125's of the day but way cheaper to run and less highly strung. 

 

 

I never mentioned the (essential due to large grooves in cylinder wall) 3 mm oversized pistons in my RD350LC which took it to 375 cc. I'd be forced to report myself these days as I've become the man I used to hate.

[saucedoctor]

Lovely wee machines, those, mine was exactly the same as that one. I Had a Honda 90 like the one in the pic as well. That was so mingebag on the pez I kept forgetting to fill it up.

[Barry Cade]

Burgman force hail....

[Faker]

Bought this yesterday. 1984 gsx 750. Properly retro.

[andy18s]

Burgman force hail....

Do tell. .....Mrs may be interested

 

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[Cavcraft]

Rider policies were less great if you owned a GT380 as I had to pay more than the 250-350 class.

[saucedoctor]

I had a 1978 GS550 for a while, and the guy I bought it from didn't tell me he'd bored it out to 672cc. Turned out I'd been riding it with invalid insurance, although fortunately nothing happened. I only found out when I sold it. The buyer's mate said "Yeah, I remember that bike. Scotty owned it and put a ton of work into it."

[Eddie Honda]

My Norwich Union rider policy initially was up to 100cc, but later I moved up to the next band (101-225) when I got a MZ ETZ 150. (Cheap tax <150cc, cheaper insurance than a 250, no good for learners >125cc and 14.7hp = WIN, WIN, WIN)

 

In 1992, NU had a mere 4 area bands A-D. A being city-centre and D being rural. >100cc was £210 for area A, so being a student at the time I insured it under my home address which was D for £105. I don't even think they offered anything more than TP cover unless you were over 28. After they scrapped them and starting group rating by model (mad that a 18hp Honda 250cc was the same monies as a 67hp Suzuki 250cc) you could still hang onto the rider policy as an existing customer, but even that didn't last long as they started jacking the premiums up to make it uneconomical.

 

It was great that there was no fannying around phoning up insurers to change things. As long as it was x cc, you just rode it.

 

For the kids: http://www.independent.co.uk/money/norwich-shifts-gear-on-insuring-motorcycles-caroline-merrell-looks-at-a-new-streamlined-model-being-1408672.html

[Fabergé Greggs]

Uh oh everyone. Replacement bought. 

 

Any interest in this to make me feel better about my bank balance?

[Fabergé Greggs]

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