Post by: Andrew-S on December 09, 2018, 12:22:59 PM
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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Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on December 09, 2018, 01:05:19 PM
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 :(
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on December 09, 2018, 01:07:16 PM
The mountings didn't line up and the rack meant I couldn't open the seat anyway!
Post by: Andrew-S on December 09, 2018, 06:17:12 PM
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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Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on December 09, 2018, 06:57:23 PM
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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Post by: Rozabikes Tim on December 09, 2018, 08:02:37 PM
I don't have a photo but I fitted Fiamm air horns in an attempt to make myself heard..Did that horny bit to my 500/4 too .... and ace bars. I was so cool 8) 8)
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 :(
Post by: matthewmosse on December 09, 2018, 10:38:09 PM
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 09:33:00 AM
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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Post by: Rozabikes Tim on December 10, 2018, 09:40:27 AM
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on December 10, 2018, 09:58:26 AM
My mum always said she could hear me coming home from two valleys away!
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Post by: Sgt.Pinback on December 10, 2018, 11:17:52 AM
Post by: Laverda Dave on December 10, 2018, 11:52:52 AM
Neither 'modification' lasted for long and I reverted back to standard... 🤔
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 01:04:53 PM
Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
Not my flares... the Mrs's... do you remember Croft Motors Tim ...Derbyshire I think.
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 01:08:29 PM
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
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 01:16:03 PM
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?
Post by: MrDavo on December 10, 2018, 03:29:43 PM
(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.
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on December 10, 2018, 03:50:34 PM
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?
Post by: Sgt.Pinback on December 10, 2018, 04:11:52 PM
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 04:54:16 PM
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
Post by: Woodside on December 10, 2018, 05:39:21 PM
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
Post by: Woodside on December 10, 2018, 05:45:18 PM
Post by: Woodside on December 10, 2018, 05:46:04 PM
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
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on December 10, 2018, 05:54:40 PM
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! >: :-\
Post by: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2018, 06:45:00 PM
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
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on December 10, 2018, 07:31:21 PM
Post by: Bryanj on December 10, 2018, 09:24:35 PM
Post by: Arch stanton on December 10, 2018, 09:32:59 PM
My current 750k1 project will be fitted with a original unbaffled Marvin! With bell mouths. So it should howl a bit.
Sean.
Post by: Bryanj on December 10, 2018, 09:46:21 PM
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.
Post by: Arch stanton on December 11, 2018, 05:44:52 AM
But very few had them fitted. They definitely sounded best on the 500/4.
Post by: Andrew-S on December 11, 2018, 07:00:53 AM
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
(http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17749.0;attach=38099;image)
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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Post by: Laverda Dave on December 11, 2018, 08:38:48 AM
Post by: MrDavo on December 11, 2018, 09:42:38 AM
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.
Post by: taysidedragon on December 11, 2018, 12:13:27 PM
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!
Post by: Andrew-S on December 11, 2018, 12:52:53 PM
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Post by: Bryanj on December 11, 2018, 01:39:58 PM
Post by: matthewmosse on December 11, 2018, 09:14:42 PM
Post by: SumpMagnet on December 15, 2018, 11:49:44 AM
(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.
Post by: philward on December 15, 2018, 02:28:26 PM
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!!!
Post by: adespin on December 15, 2018, 05:22:51 PM
I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)Looks like a Brazilian carnival float !!
(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.
Post by: SumpMagnet on December 15, 2018, 08:12:04 PM