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Post by marktrower on Apr 26, 2022 12:23:22 GMT
Hello eggsy as the saying never meet your heroes.had a ride home on one some years back.like the cb750fb I have they are a top heavy bike no brakes but plenty of silky smooth power but they are pure eyecandy It's still my no one best looking and for Honda's engineering achievement saying to the world beet that.carl still has his unrestored mint cbx he now as had it 38 years if it ever comes up for sale I will probably sell up to get it.as the bike nights are starting up I will take a pic of him and the cbx if he comes on it as he has a lot of bikes to pic.must be a thing with working down the pit that are in to bikes we all have 5 or more bikes my friends and wife just think we're sad
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Post by marktrower on Jul 17, 2022 17:57:08 GMT
new toy landed yesterday through necessity as post pandemic lots of businesses are now gone and them that are left they can charge what they want and there quality is debatable.powder coating i have lots of work for one and its all in the maths.so got a powder coater and 8 2000w infrared baking oven heaters that will cure the powder coating and keep me warm in winter
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Post by marktrower on Jul 31, 2022 19:13:30 GMT
i have a ultrasonic cleaner and it has given me years of trouble free service.it is a 3ltr one and is fine but a bank of 40mm firestorm carbs and some car carbs i have been given to sort ,i have had good gear from this company and got a popup for this 6ltr no frills but well made cleaner,got two banks of carbs to clean this week so will let you know how it performs at £89 delivered i hope its a good buy
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Post by marktrower on Aug 6, 2022 18:39:11 GMT
not a issue with the superdream as the engine splits as engines should ,but there are the engines that split horizontally some are no problem some are a total pain.working on a ktm ecx engine i needed to borrow one of these.now i do not came today and vevor doing them for £47 to the door one crankcace splitter in the arsenal
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Post by ian on Aug 6, 2022 21:00:09 GMT
Only vertically split engine I've done was the 125 Superdream - much trickier than the horizontally split 250/400 motors. Didn't have much trouble splitting the cases, but fitting the crank, balancer, gears etc vertically was a pain
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Post by marktrower on Aug 6, 2022 21:14:46 GMT
If it was easy Ian it would be no fun
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