Teds new project a CB500 K1 mostly version 0.5 circa 1972.

[Sesman]

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[Laverdaroo]

I'm on my second Goblet of Black Cactus Schnapps.

Goblet, that instils a great mental image of you Ted, supping that


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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I have a variety of Pewter Goblets the metal somehow adds to the drinking experience.

Many folk think it makes everything taste metallic.

[Laverdaroo]

My old dear had loads exactly for that reason, she said mulled wine was lovely out of them.  Possibly the amount ofmulled wine that brought that decision on but I couldn't say
She did swear by them though...

[Oddjob]

It may be good enough for you Ken but not for everyone.

When I said it looks right I meant does it still look original, would anyone not an anal expert comment on something not fitted as standard?

If you've just spent the last year or so restoring a bike to OE spec and someone came along and started to rip it to bits how would that make you feel. Comments like, Those tyres are wrong, should be Bridgestones, the master cylinder wasn't quite that shape, is that a copy, you've repainted the handlebar switchgear and the colour of the letters is the wrong shade of red etc. You'd quite rightly tell them that all that doesn't matter so long as it looks the part, tyres were changed because new tyres work where the Bridgestones were just ditch finders.

I prefer to build mine so they look original but I don't like to repeat the mistakes Honda made in the first place, rear dampers that worked like Pogo sticks, it was common in those days for the speedo or tacho needle to bounce around like mad, would we settle for that now? Do we have to accept a wiring loom where all the power runs through one fuse, if that blows you stop. I had a mate back in the late 70s who was killed by just this thing happening, fast lane of the motorway, doing 70 or so, not speeding, just tootling along like you do, fuse blew for some reason, we never found out why, he suddenly slows as the bike loses power, car behind doesn't expect it and hits him up the rear end at around 100mph, catapulting him off the bike, his helmet flew off and he landed on his face, ripped most of his face off, he was just 17. His dad had to identify him in the morgue and it broke him, first of our gang to die and to this day I still get upset remembering him and the waste of that life for such a simple reason. Car driver got off BTW even though he was speeding it was deemed an accident.

I think it's arrogant of anyone to try and inflict their ways of restoring on anyone, so it might be the wrong black, who cares, it's black. Would you really notice if it was next to you at the lights? BTW Ted, we'd notice a nut brown frame, just saying  However if Ted had done the frame nut brown I might not have agreed with the choice but I'd certainly have admired the will to say "sod it, it's my bike I'll do it so I like it, if you don't, well hard luck"

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Not a load of progress but fairy steps in the colder climate.

Just painted my top fork bridge clamps  - I'm happy with the outcome - less than perfect like the owner - but good enough for me.



.fork clamps by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

[Laverdaroo]

Well done Ted,
looking at that top clamp on 'the net' last night, it's clear that the PG who had my 'heap' had cut the middle out to make two separate clamps. He's then ground them down badly, like a threepenny bit and tried to hide it with matt paint......eeesh! Theyre smaller than the lower half of the clamp they sit on he's taken that much off........Lookslike I've doneit 

I knew they were for the bin but hadn't offered them up until last night when I pulled the bag out to have a look. They were chucked in the 'to fettle later' bin. As I'm still waiting for the frame from the coaters............Covid at their end................I said I'd hang on I'm just prepping all the faff bits like this and sorting switches and the like...

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

So where were the four warning lamps then mounted?

[Laverdaroo]

No idea, there weren't any on it when I got her, you must have underestimated how much of one it was when I reffered to it as a heap................I'm not sure anybody else would have spent this much time and money on her as I have, they'd have probably poked it back onto ebay and slithered off ......She was proper on her last legs, Ted.

I must be bonkers!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I think we are all bonkers here  Roo we spend more on restoring an old bike than they are worth  when completed (aside from a few Dodos). It's a labour of love Roo and we all know how stupid we can be when in love.😁😁😁

[Laverdaroo]

It'd be cheaper being a junky!


You're very right though. very right!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

But Roo unlike a Junkie we have something tangable when we are done - we can ride it - admire it with all its faults - I told Wendy my 400 is my funeral plan when I have no longer got a pulse. Think positive Roo its all about the build.

[Laverdaroo]

Imnot negative nor ever have been,not sure where this accusation has come from......Pissed right off and super frustrated but not negative. I cant. Ive got a bike in a billion bits,I havent time!

[Oddjob]

The 4 warning lights are on the central panel between the clocks on the 550 Ted. Only the 750/500 got them across the bars like that.

[Laverdaroo]

Ah,I see what you mean now, I thought you meant on my crate when I got it not on the 550 per se.I'd have said, between the clocks. My bad, didnt read it right