Nice Pics Honda museum

[Johnwebley]

here is a link to the Honda Museum,

 its at Motegi,so if you pop over the watch the Moto GP race,spend time visiting it,

although its even further than Valletta !!

http://www.honda-museum.com/




 if you read it carefully,Honda are asking for photoes and histories of ALL classics

[AshimotoK0]

Sorry Ash, I have corrupted your advertising for the DSS museum.

Ha Ha Julie    it was actually a plug for the Honda museum in Japan not the DS museum. Like to put the record straight here, I am no big mucker of DS, in fact never had a single penny discount from him. However, I did get him to join us on here to comment on things like his pattern parts vs genuine, supply of HM323's , quality/supply issues etc but as soon as he joined he immediately got a few digs from a couple of members  about his postage prices and prices of parts. This wasn't really my reason for asking him to join us and he then  told me he would rather me get a list of questions (non price/postage related) and for me to ask the questions as a 'go between' 

I can hear Pete muttering about steam and bodily fluids .. I still crack up every time  I quote that saying of yours Pete.. it's a classic  I keep saying it to my son.

Personally, I think it's a shame DS does not communicate more via the forum. With the depth of knowledge that some members have about these bikes, it would possibly prevent wrong parts being advertised / sold on his site. We all know he has a history of selling the wrong part for a certain model but insisting it's the correct part.

Know where you are coming from Julie as I quizzed him on his pattern cam chain parts and 750KO stanchions but he would not share the technical  info with me. Back in 1985 though I had a totally stalled 400/4 resto (after someone nicked my immaculate yellow F2) You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find NOS parts then, even though the bike was only 10 years old and the model production had only finished 6 years earlier . I remember vividly one day I took a day off to take  my son for an important appointment with a specialist and the outcome was great. To top off that day, when I got back, my neighbour had taken in a parcel from DS with NOS fork Stanchions, NOS front guard,NOS rear guard, NOS caliper complete etc etc . Everything was £10 each or less  and I was over the moon! The main reason I use him is for his returns policy. I just bought some CB500 repro  pipes off him but I don't know for sure when I will be able to try them for fitment but pretty sure if I have an issue they will sort it out. Try that with CMS .. Saisei bought some 400/4 downpipes from them and they didn't fit his customer's bike but it was a real rigmarole trying to return them .. still don't know to this day if he got refunded and it involved me helping him out to check them on my bike before they would accept that they didn't fit properly .....which they didn't !