Honda-SOHC

Ash's post has just reminded me. I have had a few wheels respoked and never come across this before my 550 front wheel has been recently respoked and it makes a loud pinking noise when wheeling the bike about.

There doesn't seem to be any loose or overly tightened spokes so what would cause it?   

I know valley green 750's are obviously the most valuable  but I think this one that keeps reappearing on eBay is taking the mick a bit. Every time it resurfaces it goes up a couple thousand.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CB750-K1-Very-Early-October-1970-/152463898954?hash=item237f8e794a:g:9RQAAOSw4CFYvv5Q
   

Where's the best place to buy new D.I.D rims at the moment.
I may as well spend a bit on the gold 750 otherwise it will end up sitting there as long as the Peg did.

Mick

Well you have to love Italian bikes I stopped using it a few years ago because the carbs poped off.If you thought they were a bastard on a Honda try fitting them to a Peg.After stripping it down and reasembling everything It started overheat and the rad fan stopped working.As it was getting close to the red I turned the ignition key to find the bike now doesn't switch off and just keeps running.By this point the garage was rappidly filling with toxic fumes and my eye stinging like crazy.Thank god the kill switch stopped it.So I bled the rad and changed the rad switch the Fan still doesn't work unless I bridge the connection and it still overheats.Now I have discovered it has a crazy amount of oil pressure.I only noticed that because when I decidded to change the oil and the sump plug came out with a massive bang and the bike sprayed oil everywhere  there is now an oil stain as big as a fiat 500 on the garage floor and front of the 750.

Does anyone know whats causing the high oil pressure?
Ignition switch not turning off but only when the engines running?
Rad staying cold at the bottom?

Mick

After 79k the rear shock on the trophy is smeged since the bike is 24 years old now and probably only worth £800 and needing one rear silencer soon as well I don't fancy spending to much on it.
Can anyone recomend a monoshock at a decent price?
Since you can't get the silencers anymore I will probably buy Delkevic pipes and sell the origanal good one and its rusty twin to ofset the cost

Mick

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Happy new year all
Well after a crappy year I thought I would cheer myself up by using the bikes
Wish I didn't now
I thought I would use the Triumph trophy pulled it out pumped up the tyres got no more than a couple of miles and got a puncture
What the hell is this? It was like riding over a stingger as its holow it let t down almost instantly



I picked it up were someone has been putting obstacals in the road for the  last couple of weeks. A few days before hand I drove over a temporary road sign that was laying flat on the middle of the road thank god I was in the truck when I hit that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-35206183

Mick

Are starter solenoids repairable mine seems to have stopped working?

Mick