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JPB
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Old Bike

#1 Post by JPB » Wed Sep 27, 2017 5:53 pm

I know that some of us have a love of machinery with a wheel count that isn't four, so I thought I'd post this: http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/ ... cycle.html

:drool: :drool:

Hand and foot operation for the clutch, hand gear change, lovely looking old thing (IMHO), cheap for what it is and the seller will deliver. :idea:
I probably wouldn't manage to keep the thing upright these days but surely that has to be a cracking good buy? Or am I hopelessly out of touch with the two wheeled scene? I reckon it's rather nice.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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#2 Post by arceye » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:16 pm

Thats pretty sweet John, a pal of mine was selling a similar Motobecane, girder forks, hand gear change etc for not a lot of cash the other week but sadly that didn't have a number or a v5c or I would have been very tempted. All in, that one you listed is probably a good proposition, now if only I had cash :cry:

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#3 Post by GHT » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:26 pm

Well why didn't you say? This beauty is a bike I would like to say was mine, sadly, not so. Something we saw whilst on holiday in Portugal.
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This one is mine, well it was once, nowadays, owing to the need of a hip replacement, I couldn't even get my leg over the crossbar of a pushbike.
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#4 Post by arceye » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:43 pm

NICE..... Can't beat the torque or the sound of a V twin bike, though I'll admit to liking em best oriented the other way a la Guzzi or, may I even admit, an old CX :)

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#5 Post by JPB » Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:14 pm

I ran a CX500 for a while, back in the early nineties. It was reliable right up to the day when the timing chain and the chain guides had a bit of an argument with each other. I was accelerating at the time and although I kept the bike upright, it still took me around twenty yards of rubber - left on the A66 in a perfectly straight line I might add - before I eventually had the presence of mind to disengage the clutch..
:oops:
J
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#6 Post by arceye » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:05 am

Reckon that shows a lack of two strokes in the past John :lol: bad riding practice apparently is leaving a finger or two resting on the clutch lever but a common trait of folk who ran two strokes and even handy in the event of one of Mr Hondas finest four strokes chucking a wobbler.
I bought a lovely low mileage CX500 import in 95, mint with only 12k on the clock and the bugger started with a strange rattling / knocking whilst sat in traffic. Couldn't find a problem on strip down so ended up shoving another engine in with treble the miles but that unit proved very good.
I had an interesting moment achieving air as they say one Monday morning on mine, when I discovered a mini roundabout in the dark where there hadn't been one the previous Friday :oops: woke me up I can tell you.

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#7 Post by rich. » Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:19 pm

buy it john!! if nothing else it would look lovely in your living room.... :D

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Re: Old Bike

#8 Post by JPB » Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:59 pm

rich. wrote:
Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:19 pm
buy it john!! if nothing else it would look lovely in your living room.... :D
That statement cannot be argued against and is perfectly logical, but even I have limits. :lol:
J
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Re: Old Bike

#9 Post by GHT » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:53 am

rich. wrote:
Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:19 pm
buy it john!! if nothing else it would look lovely in your living room.... :D
A former neighbour of mine had a restored Triumph Trophy standing on a circular mirror, in his hallway.

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Re: Old Bike

#10 Post by JPB » Fri Sep 29, 2017 7:19 am

GHT wrote:
Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:53 am
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A former neighbour of mine had a restored Triumph Trophy standing on a circular mirror, in his hallway.
Pure class! :thumbs: Why "former" neighbour though, GHT? Did you scare them away with the constant sound of forties music blaring from your gramophone? ;)
J
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