first bike

[Fazerider]

Honda CG125.
Another bike with crappy 6V electrics. The 25W headlight was so poor that the previous owner tried to improve it by fitting a Cibie replacement with a 45W bulb. This was only a help while you revved the tits off it… let the revs drop and thing dimmed to about one candle-power. Also the Cibie lens produced lots of narrow fingers of light that went upwards: in misty weather they became more visible than the white lines on the road and on many occasions I found myself following these instead of the road. What with that, the feeble drum brakes and gripless tyres I can't understand why I stuck with it for four years.