Real Anorak stuff on Restoration of Serial Numbers

[AshimotoK0]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ugnwcvfg7tb8pqd/81771NCJRS.pdf?dl=0

[Orcade-Ian]

Heck Ash,
That's a really comprehensive series of articles, anyone would think you have a vested interest in the subject  . There are some very useful tables - Brinell hardness and relative density spring to mind.  It transported me back over 50 years ago to Brough and Hawker Siddeley (as was) where I spent time in Materials testing and prepared many etched macro specimens mounted in bakelite for examination following heat treatment.  Thanks for sharing.

Ian

Forgot to say I'm surprised you haven't joined the pissing contest about whether casings are polished or painted - we know you have experience.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Forensically explained - interesting read.

[Matt_Harrington]

Forensically explained - interesting read.

I hope you read it all! 
Matt

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Forensically explained - interesting read.

I hope you read it all! 
Matt

I've been privy to SOCO recovering ground off numbers in my former life.

[Matt_Harrington]

Ah Ha! 
Matt

[Laverdaroo]

Forgot to say I'm surprised you haven't joined the pissing contest about whether casings are polished or painted - we know you have experience.

Quiet snigger!

[AshimotoK0]

Heck Ash,
That's a really comprehensive series of articles, anyone would think you have a vested interest in the subject 

Yea this :

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[Laverdaroo]

Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight

[AshimotoK0]

Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight

No ...the only Honda UK press bike I own is the CD175A sloper 'OLA 4E' that was reviewed in 'Motorcycle' and used in 1967 brochures.

Review here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmj1fju95l8xbtj/CD175%20Sloper%20Reviews.pdf?dl=0

However, only last week I proved that a friends C110D  was a Honda press bike '576 PG', used in the brochure here in the pic. attached. He had to pay an eye-watering £155 for the brochure in an eBay bidding war but well worth it as provenance. He was over the moon, as I had been harping on to him for a couple of years that I had a hunch it was a press bike. The brochure is rare as it as published when Honda UK was still based in Kingston-on-Thames.

Here are the sad pics of both press bikes concerned. My sloper CD175 and his C110D (later became C114) plus the brochure pic.. Mine will be a high pipe version C110.


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[Laverdaroo]

That is incredible Ash, what fab things they are. Slightly jelous looking at them, what finds!

[JamesH]

Thats wicked Ash. I knew you had it from a previous post but never seen it. Is that one of the ones you mentioned that were on the original advertising by Honda back then?
OR, am I thinking of a completely different bike? In my defence Ive just got back from the states and a bit fuzzy with the sleep depravation from the flight

No ...the only Honda UK press bike I own is the CD175A sloper 'OLA 4E' that was reviewed in 'Motorcycle' and used in 1967 brochures.

Review here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmj1fju95l8xbtj/CD175%20Sloper%20Reviews.pdf?dl=0

However, only last week I proved that a friends C110D  was a Honda press bike '576 PG', used in the brochure here in the pic. attached. He had to pay an eye-watering £155 for the brochure in an eBay bidding war but well worth it as provenance. He was over the moon, as I had been harping on to him for a couple of years that I had a hunch it was a press bike. The brochure is rare as it as published when Honda UK was still based in Kingston-on-Thames.

Here are the sad pics of both press bikes concerned. My sloper CD175 and his C110D (later became C114) plus the brochure pic.. Mine will be a high pipe version C110.


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Ash - you need to bring that bike down to Brighton so we can re-create the photo!


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[Oddjob]

I thought it was India with the domes.

[Laverdaroo]

That's Brighton, India Ken. Near Mumbai

[JamesH]

I thought it was India with the domes.

Lol it’s the Royal Pavilion in Brighton Ken - built by a rather eccentric king several centuries ago…


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