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Stone the crows. BARGAIN!!!!!
« on: September 18, 2014, 10:42:07 AM »
I have a couple of CB125Ss, and a CG125, and am always on the lookout for Honda CB125 single stuff.

Look what I just scored.  ;D

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB125-Engine-/151411826172

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Re: Stone the crows. BARGAIN!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2014, 10:48:02 AM »
Some guys have all the luck
well done
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2014, 01:25:53 PM »
WOW, what a bargin

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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2014, 02:10:03 PM »
Seller is mystified why it didn't sell for more, but obviously has a sense of humour, because he's just said he'll accept cash if I think I can carry it all in one go.

Coo.  A whole spare engine.  I fancy doing something silly like putting a big bore kit in it.  Does anyone do them still, for the 122cc singles?

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2014, 02:27:20 PM »
I don't know if anybody still does them (but I see that 180cc kits are available for the CG125).

In 1976, my room-mate at Uni bought a bored out 180cc CB125S. I can't remember the name of the supplier - it was somewhere in London I think.

It was a nightmare. Multiple engine failures. There was so little metal left around the bore that it's a wonder the poor thing ever went at all!
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2014, 03:16:59 PM »
I don't know if anybody still does them (but I see that 180cc kits are available for the CG125).

In 1976, my room-mate at Uni bought a bored out 180cc CB125S. I can't remember the name of the supplier - it was somewhere in London I think.

It was a nightmare. Multiple engine failures. There was so little metal left around the bore that it's a wonder the poor thing ever went at all!

Jock Kerr Developments  possibly ...Other disasters  sleeved down to 250cc--  400/4, CB250N Superdream converted to 125cc with blanked off bore with plastic inside it? All to get round the learner rider laws.

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2014, 03:27:27 PM »
That's it Ash.

Jock Kerr.

What a disaster...
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2014, 07:32:37 PM »
And who remembers his turbo kits, and Dynaflow exhausts? And his ball bearing Honda cam conversions (mostly for CB250G5s)?

And his exchange re-con engine service (the emphasis being on the second syllable of 're-con')?

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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2014, 09:36:41 PM »
Sammy Miller TL125 big bore still available - 150cc???

One day I'll have the time to restore it, not just talk and dream....

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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2014, 08:44:26 AM »
Think i still have a Jock Kerr catalogue somewhere, as one of the 125's used same pistons as 500 and you can get a 750 piston in a 500 that should give you 500,550,750 options for rebore

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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2014, 06:32:01 PM »
Engine turned out to be a CG125, missing alternator (that side of engine not depicted!) so was not a runner as claimed, and with a buggered crank end.  Under the circumstances leaving neutral feedback was kind.

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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2014, 09:42:06 PM »
Clean it ....stick a lamp holder in the top and sell it as a desk lamp......probably get 500 quid in London for it...

 

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