The cool bike thread......

[ogri48]

That’s a sweet looking little thing.  She's got potential.  I take it there is a side cover missing?
You giving it the carb treatment?

yup owners got both side covers. waiting on a float from david silver l/h one was full of fuel on both sides. carbs horribly gummed up with varnish so a bottle of nail polish remover and lots of titting around afore it goes in the ultrasonic tank. Personally i think late sixties/early seventies small capacity hondas are little gems. having said that i wouldnt run one... :lol
Theres a sentimemtal pull to tis bike in truth. 'Knockie' ellington, an older boy who lived a few doors up from me on my council estate used to tear around it on his back in '73 when I was thirteen. I think thats where it all began for me with bikes

[coffee]

I think I'm being unfair with my dislike of that Honda,I mean it sparked something inside of you,starting you out on a life of freedom,friendship,exileration and a fantastic camaraderie ,who am I to judge?

[ogri48]

Another way to look at it though would be that its kept me impoverished all my adult life mate :lol :lol :lol
no you were right. Foccing things.... :lol

[coffee]

Anyway,compared to my first "motorised" bike it's fantastic,it was...……….wait for it a Zundapp Bella scooter. :o I remember I was frightened to bank it over and went up the gutter and into a pub car park,I didn't hurt myself,I'd have probably been going quicker on my pushbike. :lol

[robbo]

Zundapp Bella, was it a maroon one.

[coffee]

No,someone had painted it with Tekalide paint,do you remember that .you were supposed to be able to hand paint it and not see any lines,what a load of bollocks!! but anyway it was this shit green colour,did you have one? Mine was a '54 ,I actually think there's a club for them now.

[coffee]

I think I worded that wrong ever seen green shit ? :lol

[robbo]

No I didn't have a Bella. A guy opposite my parents house had one, and it seemed all the ones I saw were maroon. The fast big scoot of that time was the Maicoletta. Wasn't trendy like a Vespa or Lambretta, but were very quick.
Not familiar with Tekalide paint, but used plenty of Belco brushing cellulose. With patience and a decent brush, the Belco used to turn out quite well.

[coffee]

Remember it well,do you also remember DAG exhaust paint? it was really good then suddenly you couldn't get it.A mate of mine used to paint everything with Belco,his bikes,van and used to change the colour of his helmet regularly with it,he always wore a Cromwell Carburton helmet 'cause it used to slope down at the back with a lovely leather neck piece. I think most of the racers at the time used them.

[robbo]

Not familiar with DAG, but did loads of motorbike frames in Belco, as well as a Morris 1000, bought for £5 needing a couple of wheel cylinder overhaul kits, and a VW Beetle, also bought for a fiver, which needed a top end overhaul. All done in the street then. You were dead posh if you had a garage back then.
My pal Del still uses a Cromwell pudding basin when blowing a few cobwebs off his Rocket Goldie or Road Rocket.
The first helmet I bought was an Everoak Racemaster, the most expensive you could buy at the time when jet style helmets were still quite new. It was 95/-, or £4.75 in new money. I'd saved all summer to get that. Up until then I'd been using a damaged ex Norman Surtees helmet. Good old days for sure.

[Oldgit]

I even have my "Never Wet badge" from my ancient biking clothes.

[robbo]

Have a look on ebay. You'd be surprised how much genuine old bike related badges go for.

[VNA]

[coffee]

WOW !!!!

[ogri48]

wow indeed but its deffo a money no object/more money than sense build :lol
Saw this at the weekend. Love the tank, but clear rocker covers?!?
you'll be wanting to git yerself some of them obviously VNA, i mean, pure class mate.... :lol

[ogri48]

Not Harley fan myself, but if I was to have one it would be this one

Gnasher I had one of these but hated thetwin lights, especially as one is dip and the other head, meaning riding around looking like someone has given your bike a black eye. modded a bosch metal shell headlight and bracket (off a ducati monster) to fit instead, and done away with most of the chrome, much betterer, and cooler. shame about the gimp rider though...

[VNA]

[robbo]

Amazing pipe work. Open piped CBXs sound the nuts on full chat. There’s always a few at the Spa Classic.

[coffee]

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Not Harley fan myself, but if I was to have one it would be this one

Gnasher I had one of these but hated thetwin lights, especially as one is dip and the other head, meaning riding around looking like someone has given your bike a black eye. modded a bosch metal shell headlight and bracket (off a ducati monster) to fit instead, and done away with most of the chrome, much betterer, and cooler. shame about the gimp rider though...
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you look as cool as the bike mate. un

[VNA]

I can't resist a nice Kat.