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Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: Andrew-S on December 09, 2018, 12:22:59 PM
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Well, it sure seemed like a good idea at the time!
I dug out these photos of my old 71 K1 from back in May 78 after I fitted a fairing and ace bars to it - Rickman or a Dunstall I think? It didn't match the candy gold but looked great (well I though so anyway), especially after I fitted some Yoshimura stickers even though it was a bog-standard K1..........with a rack. ::)
BUT, those ace bars gave the turning circle of a London bus, so it all came off after less than 2 weeks! ;D
So I wondered what hideous bike modifications others are willing to own up to?
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I don't have a photo but I fitted Fiamm air horns in an attempt to make myself heard..
The compressor was fitted (bodged) onto the old horn mount - with associated exhaust heat and road spray...
The horns were mounted on the fairing brackets on the outside of the Rickman fairing (see avatar)
They were loud OK, but the delay between pressing the button, the compressor whirring into life and the noise coming out made it impossible to "beep" the horn. Only a sustained blast was possible.
And then the compressor faided due to being continually wet :(
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... also, fitting a K3 seat and tank to my 500.
The mountings didn't line up and the rack meant I couldn't open the seat anyway!
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I don't have a photo but I fitted Fiamm air horns in an attempt to make myself heard..
The compressor was fitted (bodged) onto the old horn mount - with associated exhaust heat and road spray...
The horns were mounted on the fairing brackets on the outside of the Rickman fairing (see avatar)
They were loud OK, but the delay between pressing the button, the compressor whirring into life and the noise coming out made it impossible to "beep" the horn. Only a sustained blast was possible.
And then the compressor faided due to being continually wet :(
Can't match the compressor driven airhorns, but these things I fitted in 79 to my Z750 twin when I was a dispatch rider in London and needed to send car drivers a little warning, just got waterlogged and were totally useless. Later, I fitted a big clear screen - clearly I'd been watching too much CHiPs on TV!
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I remember going to the bike show when the Z750 was launched.
You’ve got a 900/4 and a 650/4, why on earth would you make a 750 twin?
Not quite a modification, but my room-mate at uni bought a CB500T. Again, why?
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I don't have a photo but I fitted Fiamm air horns in an attempt to make myself heard..
The compressor was fitted (bodged) onto the old horn mount - with associated exhaust heat and road spray...
The horns were mounted on the fairing brackets on the outside of the Rickman fairing (see avatar)
They were loud OK, but the delay between pressing the button, the compressor whirring into life and the noise coming out made it impossible to "beep" the horn. Only a sustained blast was possible.
And then the compressor faided due to being continually wet :(
Did that horny bit to my 500/4 too .... and ace bars. I was so cool 8) 8)
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My 550/4k3 had some 'lovely' modifications when I bought it. Wheel spokes, crashbars a rack with black luggage box bolted on all generously embellished with badly applied gold paint to match the gold silencer on the Motad Neta exhaust silencer. Oh and a gold skull on the back of the black top box. Needless to say they all stayed until I spotted the rack was so tight onto the tops of the rear shocks that they had bent damper rods thanks to not being able to articulate at all as the suspension moved, oh and it leaked oil, badly. Still have it in the form of a flatpack in the loft, waiting for the kids and house renovation and the rest of life to give me enough of a break to rebuild it, without the gold paint to hide rusty chrome or the rack that bends the damper rods. Not all modifications are that bad. Several of my 500 and 550/4 bikes came with fiberglass rear muddies. Ace modifications, since the chrome items don't like to live in the weather at all. Same goes for exhausts, I dont care about anything as long as it's legal. Original pipes dont last and one set would cost what every 500 or 550/4 I own or have owned have cost me put together. Does having a Watsonian Palma sidecar bolted on count as a modification? If so I make no apologies as it rocks!
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These twin open megas on a 175 sloper ... attracted much attention from the police and annoyed the neighbours.
Shortly afterwards I fitted some silencers from an SS125 ..God knows what it did to the engine running those twin megas. SS ones were much nicer. Orcadian ... those mega's came from Jack Richie's yard in Hull. The SS125 ones came from 'Croft Motors' I think in Derbyshire... sad that I remember these details I know :-[ :-[ :-[
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Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
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Ash - Dunstalls on my CB175.
My mum always said she could hear me coming home from two valleys away!
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My 500four with Tommaselli bars, Giuliari seat, Suzuki GT rear light and Moto Guzzi blinkers
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I modified my CB160 and fitted one of those hideous elasticated, reflective orange Honda headlight covers. I also fitted a huge top box complete with stickers of bikes I didn't own and fitted indicators. To add to my new found 'coolness' I modified my hairstyle a few weeks after this photo was taken with the addition of a perm.....
Neither 'modification' lasted for long and I reverted back to standard... 🤔
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Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
Not my flares... the Mrs's... do you remember Croft Motors Tim ...Derbyshire I think.
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Ash - Dunstalls on my CB175.
My mum always said she could hear me coming home from two valleys away!
Was that a K5 175 Steve ? .. I have one still but mine if gold ... my son still continually wears shades like those on your seat BTW :D
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Ash - Dunstalls on my CB175.
My mum always said she could hear me coming home from two valleys away!
Was that a K5 175 Steve ? .. I have one still but mine if gold ... my son still continually wears shades like those on your seat BTW :D
Just answered my own question ..yours was a K4 175 only has a single black pinstripe on tank ...K5 has two black stripes ;) Talking of another hideous mod ..how about the handlbars?
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I don't know what make this (straight through) 4 into 1 was, but my mum reckoned she could hear me setting off when I left my girlfriend's house over a mile away. K2 front end not too clever either, but I was oblivious in those days to such niceties. The Bell sticker covered a dent, I think.
(https://i.postimg.cc/WpnfrKPW/My-CB750001.jpg)
Said girlfriend later dumped me after I clipped an oncoming Volvo, and then asked her if my exhaust was OK, forgetting about her now damaged foot.
I later had a Triumph T140V with home made aluminium pillion footrest brackets ::) , I was genuinely surprised when one snapped off, clearly I wasn't up for the young metallurgist of the year award.
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Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
Not my flares... the Mrs's... do you remember Croft Motors Tim ...Derbyshire I think.
To be honest never heard of them. Is that where picure was taken as it is just a knees down shot on my tablet?
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My first K0
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Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
Not my flares... the Mrs's... do you remember Croft Motors Tim ...Derbyshire I think.
To be honest never heard of them. Is that where picure was taken as it is just a knees down shot on my tablet?
I chopped the photo deliberately 'cos its been on here too many times before Tim but here goes. You have a knees up know. ;D
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I don't know what make this (straight through) 4 into 1 was, but my mum reckoned she could hear me setting off when I left my girlfriend's house over a mile away. K2 front end not too clever either, but I was oblivious in those days to such niceties. The Bell sticker covered a dent, I think.
(https://i.postimg.cc/WpnfrKPW/My-CB750001.jpg)
Said girlfriend later dumped me after I clipped an oncoming Volvo, and then asked her if my exhaust was OK, forgetting about her now damaged foot.
I later had a Triumph T140V with home made aluminium pillion footrest brackets ::) , I was genuinely surprised when one snapped off, clearly I wasn't up for the young metallurgist of the year award.
Looks the same as the one on my avatar bike...a race 1 from hadleigh custom.. they got told to stop selling them as they were to loud...
And yes my mate .can here me get home on it and he lives about half a mile away
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Bad pic but looks similar
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I modified my CB160 and fitted one of those hideous elasticated, reflective orange Honda headlight covers. I also fitted a huge top box complete with stickers of bikes I didn't own and fitted indicators. To add to my new found 'coolness' I modified my hairstyle a few weeks after this photo was taken with the addition of a perm.....
Neither 'modification' lasted for long and I reverted back to standard... 🤔
One of these
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Bad pic but looks similar
Had a Piper 2:1 on my CD 175 with similar megaphone. Got pulled one day at midnight coming home for making excessive noise! Had actually been to see a Shakespeare play. Dressed in tasselled leather jacket etc., dont think plod believed me! >: :-\
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Bad pic but looks similar
Had a Piper 2:1 on my CD 175 with similar megaphone. Got pulled one day at midnight coming home for making excessive noise! Had actually been to see a Shakespeare play. Dressed in tasselled leather jacket etc., dont think plod believed me! >: :-\
Tim ... a policeman in Bakewell told me he remembered a hooligan blasting around Derbyshire on a Honda with ear deafening exhausts ... I said "Alas ... poor Roza I know him well" ;D
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Love it. I did say to him it was "much ado about nothin" :-\
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Try one of the original Marvin 4 into 1 on a 500 with the rudimentary baffle removed----my mate live 4 mile down the main road and heard me start to go to work!!!!!
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Ah, funny you should mention Marvin pipes.
My current 750k1 project will be fitted with a original unbaffled Marvin! With bell mouths. So it should howl a bit.
Sean.
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The "baffle" was a pice of pipe swaged to fit over the exhaust with an allen bolt vertical into captive nut to hold it on, inside welded to the end and sticking down the exhaust was a piece of approx 1 1/2 inch thinwall pipe inner end blanked and lots of 3/8 holes drilled all along, no absorbtion material at all but it did stop plod sticking his truncheon up the end!!
Ah, funny you should mention Marvin pipes.
My current 750k1 project will be fitted with a original unbaffled Marvin! With bell mouths. So it should howl a bit.
Sean.
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That's right.
But very few had them fitted. They definitely sounded best on the 500/4.
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I modified my CB160 and fitted one of those hideous elasticated, reflective orange Honda headlight covers.
(http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17749.0;attach=38051;image)
One of these
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Ahhh yes, the good old orange plastic headlight cover - had one of those too, but mine was 'Yamaha', how cool were we....... :-\
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Weren't they just great, cheap accessories, fit and forget or plug and play before the term had been invented 👍. Not only did they save my 17 year old life on many occasions (car drivers were too busy pointing and laughing at me to bother pulling out) but I also found when I got the CB160 up to it's theoretical 125mph chip shop top speed they kept the dead flies off the headlight glass 🙄.
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I’d forgotten all about the horror of the orange elasticated headlamp cover, but the moment I saw the photos I got a flashback to my T100 cafe racer wearing such a thing with ‘Triumph’ on it.
Given the efforts of Joe Lucas, Prince of Darkness, having my lights on all the time was not an option, so it could be argued that the cover was a genuine safety feature, not so sure about them on a Honda, which had decent electrics as standard.
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OMG is that a chin cup, forgot all about those things, good job everyone looked an idiot or we'd have really looked stupid. Like the full visor that clipped to an open face helmet but didn't flip up, OMG how did I not die :)
I had a bubble type visor that did flip up on an open face helmet, but if you lifted it just a little bit at any speed at all it flipped up all the way and nearly ripped your head off!
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This wasn't my 70's masterpiece, but I do have the side panels and tailpiece for spares....
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That should be "St Joseph Lucas Lucas Prince of Darkness and his Intermittent Electron"
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My 500/4 sported a triumph rocket 3 Raygun silencer welded to a bsm exhaust collector when I got it, my dad heard the bike being delivered, had time to walk 250 yards from his stables back to the house, tell me he thought he could hear my new bike on it's way, then I had time to walk up to the yard and get a look across the valley to see my new wheels pass across the valley. At work they could hear me about half a mile off and that was in town, competing with all the other traffic. I fitted a laser exhaust system that basically had no baffles to make it quieter eventually. Once shes back on the road I am going back to the dragon setup, it never ran so well as with that exhaust and a k&n filter that retained the original phelenem chamber etc. Used to spin the rear wheel up on every corner if you gave it the beans.
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I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)
(https://i.imgur.com/6nd8SSV.jpg)
Z650B .... Gpz750 motor, which ended up with a Honda cb750 ignition cover, as the original had been smashed. Purchased from a breakers. I couldn;t afford the Harris pipe I craved...so the Motad got chopped, welded, and gutted. Sounded...er....interesting. Dresda swing arm, which was meant for a disc rear end so lacked the correct torque arm mount. Something I sorted later...once I had replaced the broken rear brake which had sheared the torque arm mount clean off. I discovered you can't bodge up brake torque arm mounts.....
The side panels were missing...but I grafted on a pair of GSX400F items I had lying around....which looked OK. Belly-pan was the bottom half of a Gpz600R fairing.
Paint was the result of too much clubbing. White primer base, with a crazy paving pattern in flourescent green, blue and yellow. The picture does not capture the glare...Top it off with some MX bars....and I was ready for anything.
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I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)
(https://i.imgur.com/6nd8SSV.jpg)
Z650B .... Gpz750 motor, which ended up with a Honda cb750 ignition cover, as the original had been smashed. Purchased from a breakers. I couldn;t afford the Harris pipe I craved...so the Motad got chopped, welded, and gutted. Sounded...er....interesting. Dresda swing arm, which was meant for a disc rear end so lacked the correct torque arm mount. Something I sorted later...once I had replaced the broken rear brake which had sheared the torque arm mount clean off. I discovered you can't bodge up brake torque arm mounts.....
The side panels were missing...but I grafted on a pair of GSX400F items I had lying around....which looked OK. Belly-pan was the bottom half of a Gpz600R fairing.
Paint was the result of too much clubbing. White primer base, with a crazy paving pattern in flourescent green, blue and yellow. The picture does not capture the glare...Top it off with some MX bars....and I was ready for anything.
OK- You win!!!
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I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)
(https://i.imgur.com/6nd8SSV.jpg)
Z650B .... Gpz750 motor, which ended up with a Honda cb750 ignition cover, as the original had been smashed. Purchased from a breakers. I couldn;t afford the Harris pipe I craved...so the Motad got chopped, welded, and gutted. Sounded...er....interesting. Dresda swing arm, which was meant for a disc rear end so lacked the correct torque arm mount. Something I sorted later...once I had replaced the broken rear brake which had sheared the torque arm mount clean off. I discovered you can't bodge up brake torque arm mounts.....
The side panels were missing...but I grafted on a pair of GSX400F items I had lying around....which looked OK. Belly-pan was the bottom half of a Gpz600R fairing.
Paint was the result of too much clubbing. White primer base, with a crazy paving pattern in flourescent green, blue and yellow. The picture does not capture the glare...Top it off with some MX bars....and I was ready for anything.
Looks like a Brazilian carnival float !!
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And there was me thinking the white wheels and matt black brush painted exhaust were coming back in ....