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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2016, 08:24:29 AM »
quite a rare sight these days, looks very original.
Love the 500 and 550 have a 500 called Lazarus under restoration

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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2016, 12:39:30 PM »
Trigger,
               The only chicken you would catch with that is a 99p KFC mini fillet burger  ;)
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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2016, 01:53:35 PM »
Love it

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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2016, 02:37:10 PM »
Should appeal to some of the chop lovers on here, it's a factory hardtail! ;D ;D ;D
If it's got tits or wheels, it's hassle, if it's got both, RUN!!!

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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2016, 03:16:30 PM »
Trigger,
               The only chicken you would catch with that is a 99p KFC mini fillet burger  ;)

Anymore cheap brake lines going mate  ;)

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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2016, 07:15:03 PM »
My dad had one it used to take 2 hours one way from Billericay to Southend every day.He covered 7000 very slow miles in one year.
Push bikes used to over take him.  ;D

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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2016, 08:39:03 PM »
I think him indoors wants to buy that for me as a shopping bike !!!. Not because it does 300 mpg but because if I can get a weeks shopping in the basket on the front, he won't have to give me as much housekeeping money. Tight git.  ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Classic Honda on a budget
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2016, 09:33:38 PM »
Trigger,
               The only chicken you would catch with that is a 99p KFC mini fillet burger  ;)

Anymore cheap brake lines going mate  ;)
;D ;D still got the Z650 ones.
Honda CB400 4
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Kawasaki Z650 C2
Kawasaki Z650 cafe racer (Sold)
Honda CD175 sloper

 

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