Winter project
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Winter project
Took the sheets off the old gal the other day.....stirred a few happy memories. Wasnt pleased to see Mickey mouse had made a nest in the seat. So this winter it's a bit of TLC bit of new chrome and paint and she's back on the road next year
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Re: Winter project
Looks a beast Kev
Whatβs the engine ?
Whatβs the engine ?
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Re: Winter project
I like the look of that.
My opinion may offend, but it's only an opinion that may differ to your's.
It doesn't make me wrong.
Phil Cheriton....
It doesn't make me wrong.
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Re: Winter project
Happy Hayes wrote: βSun Oct 21 2018 19:40 -CB750K2 SOHC-- been tweaked a bitLooks a beast Kev
Whatβs the engine ?
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Re: Winter project
Keep us posted Kev, my mate's currently restoring a GS750
Check out this guy, clever bloke and the restoration series of videos of the CB750 was interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 5ggKPFy30w
Check out this guy, clever bloke and the restoration series of videos of the CB750 was interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 5ggKPFy30w
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Re: Winter project
I was always more into Japanese's sport bikes myself Kev, but can appreciate that as a bike is a bike is a bike
Ill never have another sports bike but do fancy an old DT175 or something like that from mu youth
As said keep us in the know
Cheers Alan
Ill never have another sports bike but do fancy an old DT175 or something like that from mu youth
As said keep us in the know
Cheers Alan
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" Seneca, some Roman chap.
Re: Winter project
cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: βMon Oct 22 2018 22:22 -nice looking bikes them old DT's AlanI was always more into Japanese's sport bikes myself Kev, but can appreciate that as a bike is a bike is a bike
Ill never have another sports bike but do fancy an old DT175 or something like that from mu youth
As said keep us in the know
Cheers Alan
Turned it over by hand today, nothing stuck solid, so that's a relief, even a bit of fuel in the tank (probably the last bit of 4* left in the country ).
Carbs want a good soaking and cleaning out though, and I just know the clutch plates will be stuck together
so a new battery, carb cleaner, tank cleaned out, oil and filter change and we will see if she sparks up
Just hope the valves havnt got pitted with standing a while---Β£50 for a new head gasket kit
I rebuilt the engine some 40k miles ago--rebore, drive chains, timing chain---everything else was ok, bomb proof engines so long as the oil is ok, and I drilled those poxy little oil jets out of the camshaft housings that blocked up so easy 35 years ago using a 1/8th drill so plenty oil got round the top end
I think theres a mouse nest in one of the exhausts, but seeing as they are more or less straight thru's it will be ejected rather quickly ---probably in flames
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Re: Winter project
Oh no not another fat Hogg on the road
Grant
Grant
Grant Everson
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
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Re: Winter project
Proper old skool....luv it
here's mine.....needs a bit of fettling over the winter
here's mine.....needs a bit of fettling over the winter
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Re: Winter project
Grant Everson
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
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Re: Winter project
That's propper owld school Kev, did you build it yourself? That motor was probably the start of the rot for the British motorcycle industry!
Re: Winter project
MalEarl wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 09:04 -Yes built the frame, made the oil tank, battery box---everything, the only parts on there that are standard are the engine, carbs, wheel hubs, suspension is standard with 6" over forks, Had the exhaust made by Custon Chrome at Nuneaton (one off no one else has this design) .That's propper owld school Kev, did you build it yourself? That motor was probably the start of the rot for the British motorcycle industry!
Did you know the inline 4, horizontal case engine that became the CB750 was a design turned down by the w*****s running British motor bike production. The 650 Yamaha Tiger that came out shortly after was a blatant copy of the Bonny, just had horizontal cases that the British industry refused to even consider. Somewhere I have some magazines showing the British bike engine designs that were snapped up by the Japs because the w*****s over here wouldn't change.
The rot that was started by the honda 4 coming in was called bomb proof reliability
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Re: Winter project
Kev Berry wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 12:11 -My mate used to work there, might still do?MalEarl wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 09:04 -Yes built the frame, made the oil tank, battery box---everything, the only parts on there that are standard are the engine, carbs, wheel hubs, suspension is standard with 6" over forks, Had the exhaust made by Custon Chrome at Nuneaton (one off no one else has this design) .That's propper owld school Kev, did you build it yourself? That motor was probably the start of the rot for the British motorcycle industry!
Did you know the inline 4, horizontal case engine that became the CB750 was a design turned down by the w*****s running British motor bike production. The 650 Yamaha Tiger that came out shortly after was a blatant copy of the Bonny, just had horizontal cases that the British industry refused to even consider. Somewhere I have some magazines showing the British bike engine designs that were snapped up by the Japs because the w*****s over here wouldn't change.
The rot that was started by the honda 4 coming in was called bomb proof reliability
His superdream 250 was "shiny"
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Re: Winter project
Bob Watson wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 13:47 -That was supposed to be a 2 up one down triple-----too much out the norm for the dinosaurs to consider
I thought Custom Chrome had closed its doors some time back Bob?
They made some brilliant custom exhausts, told them how I wanted mine doing and he said he would bend them out and fit them before chroming to see if I liked em first.
Well he didn't, he made them and decided they looked that good he chromed them I was well chuffed with them--and they sound beeyootifull
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Re: Winter project
Kev Berry wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 14:10 -I left Nuneaton in 85 after 9 years there Kev, so I never knew about the fate of Custom Chrome. My mate (Webby) worked there from leaving school about 79-80.Bob Watson wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 13:47 -That was supposed to be a 2 up one down triple-----too much out the norm for the dinosaurs to consider
I thought Custom Chrome had closed its doors some time back Bob?
They made some brilliant custom exhausts, told them how I wanted mine doing and he said he would bend them out and fit them before chroming to see if I liked em first.
Well he didn't, he made them and decided they looked that good he chromed them I was well chuffed with them--and they sound beeyootifull
All the lads had "guvvy" jobs for him, bloody fizzers and AP50's with everything chrome Then everyone moved on to X7's and super dreams (remember the old days of 250's on "L" plates?) it was usually just crash bars then!
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Re: Winter project
Kev Berry wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 12:11 -Totally agree, the Japanese production methods surpassed anything that Meridan was ablle to coble together, its quite ironic that John Bloor still chooses not to use a parallel 4, maybe in definace of those original Japanese motors! Have you seen the 4 cylinder British prototype in the National museum?MalEarl wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 09:04 -Yes built the frame, made the oil tank, battery box---everything, the only parts on there that are standard are the engine, carbs, wheel hubs, suspension is standard with 6" over forks, Had the exhaust made by Custon Chrome at Nuneaton (one off no one else has this design) .That's propper owld school Kev, did you build it yourself? That motor was probably the start of the rot for the British motorcycle industry!
Did you know the inline 4, horizontal case engine that became the CB750 was a design turned down by the w*****s running British motor bike production. The 650 Yamaha Tiger that came out shortly after was a blatant copy of the Bonny, just had horizontal cases that the British industry refused to even consider. Somewhere I have some magazines showing the British bike engine designs that were snapped up by the Japs because the w*****s over here wouldn't change.
The rot that was started by the honda 4 coming in was called bomb proof reliability
Re: Winter project
MalEarl wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 21:16 -No I haven't seen it.Kev Berry wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 12:11 -Totally agree, the Japanese production methods surpassed anything that Meridan was ablle to coble together, its quite ironic that John Bloor still chooses not to use a parallel 4, maybe in definace of those original Japanese motors! Have you seen the 4 cylinder British prototype in the National museum?MalEarl wrote: βSat Dec 29 2018 09:04 -Yes built the frame, made the oil tank, battery box---everything, the only parts on there that are standard are the engine, carbs, wheel hubs, suspension is standard with 6" over forks, Had the exhaust made by Custon Chrome at Nuneaton (one off no one else has this design) .That's propper owld school Kev, did you build it yourself? That motor was probably the start of the rot for the British motorcycle industry!
Did you know the inline 4, horizontal case engine that became the CB750 was a design turned down by the w*****s running British motor bike production. The 650 Yamaha Tiger that came out shortly after was a blatant copy of the Bonny, just had horizontal cases that the British industry refused to even consider. Somewhere I have some magazines showing the British bike engine designs that were snapped up by the Japs because the w*****s over here wouldn't change.
The rot that was started by the honda 4 coming in was called bomb proof reliability
The Jap engineering early on was far in front of any British bike, the only problem was the s**t paint, s**t chrome and s**t metal they used
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Re: Winter project
P1sspot helmet, handlebar tache and your leather chaps on Kev, you'll proper look the part mate!
Seriously, like the look of that - very nice!
Seriously, like the look of that - very nice!
Eagles may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!
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Re: Winter project
I see Mr has finished the hogg sorry Chopper
But why he changed the colour i'll never know
Grant
But why he changed the colour i'll never know
Grant
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Grant Everson
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
Re: Winter project
Crackoff wrote: βMon Mar 18 2019 02:02 -You need to grease that thing up and file any sharp corners down Granny ---will make it easier to remove when I've shoved it up your rear orificeI see Mr has finished the hogg sorry Chopper
But why he changed the colour i'll never know
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Re: Winter project
Kev Berry wrote: βMon Mar 18 2019 15:50 -You need to grease that thing up and file any sharp corners down Granny ---will make it easier to remove when I've shoved it up your rear orificeCrackoff wrote: βMon Mar 18 2019 02:02 -You need to grease that thing up and file any sharp corners down Granny ---will make it easier to remove when I've shoved it up your rear orificeI see Mr has finished the hogg sorry Chopper
But why he changed the colour i'll never know
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Grant
Oh don't you just love it when he talks dirty
Grant
Grant Everson
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
To that one soul reading this
I know your tired fed up and close to braking
But theres strength within you even when you feel week
You've come too far to give up now
Stay strong and keep fighting
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Re: Winter project
Crackoff wrote: βMon Mar 18 2019 02:02 -I see Mr has finished the hogg sorry Chopper
But why he changed the colour i'll never know
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Grant
Eagles may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!