Honda-SOHC
General => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: spotarama on October 20, 2017, 12:58:49 AM
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hiya, my name is spotty, living in Melbourne Australia, originally from darlington in sunny county durham
i'm the proud owner of a 750 K8 which is getting built as a trailbike (not a hipster based scrambler), long travel forks (actually stock Cb900 with 3 inch slugs), raised rear shock mounts with longer shocks, road legal knobbies that were originally for a F650 BMW, 70s Hodaka bars and rear guard, aftermarket XT plastic tank, XR600 front guard, XR250 seat, race number plates instead of side covers, twin (desert racer look) lights, hidden speedo, 4 into 1 with alloy muffler mounted above the rear footpeg mounts and other stuff as it progresses.
I don't have a garage to build in so it gets taken top a mates place on a trailer now and again for more activity
not sure if the pic is going to attach but i'll keep trying, might even give it its own thread
cheers, spotty
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Welcome Spotty good luck with the rebuild you will find loads of help on here.
P.S. can we have one of your summers so I can get some miles on the bikes :)
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welcome to the fun world of sohc
lots of good friends and advice here
we like lots of bike pics !!!
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Welcome to the forum Spotty.
That looks quite a big lump to go whanging around on the dirt. Rather you than me.
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Welcome to the forum Spotty.
That looks quite a big lump to go whanging around on the dirt. Rather you than me.
He is talking about the one at the front not the Harley in the back ground ;D ;D ;)
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Welcome to the forum. I bet that's a interesting ride when done.
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I didn't notice the Harley.
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'Gud day' Spotty - enjoy the forum!
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Welcome
Strangely that bike don't look no lighter than stock.
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Looks a real handful that
Cheers
Dennis
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beware of tie downs that don't
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From over here that's the way up they all should be down there, doesn't look like anything wrong ;D ;D ;D
More seriously, is it OK or did it get damaged at all. It's no fun if something gets loose on a trailer.
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Ouch. That looks nasty from underside. Pipes look like they took a bash. What's the topside like?
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Been there done that I dropped my 750 out the back of my truck last year.
There heavy old things once they start going there's no stopping them.
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it didn't cop too much damage, the beauty of having trailbiked it. if it had been stock it would have trowelled the tank, guards and lights but plastic mx stuff is better adapted to being upside down
the pipes were a bit banged up before I put them on and there'll be a bash plate to cover them up and stop any further damage , they will be replaced at some point but at the moment this is a budget build so I use wot I got
and yeah once t started to go I just got the hell out of the way, I wasn't going to try and catch it....
a while ago I was moving my spare Vmax motor round in the carport, it lives on a skateboard for ease of movement ( it makes a CB750 motor seem like a moped powerplant in weight terms - and power for that matter) and I wedged it up against a garden bed to stop it rolling off down the very steep driveway, turned round and heard the ominous noise of trundling skateboard wheels......turned round to see the whole lot rolling away, started running after it while I was thinking what the hell am I going to do if I catch it ?
luckily before it made it to the even steeper garden beds it hit a bump in the driveway, turned sideways and flipped side over side a couple of times coming to rest upside down. the only damage seems to be a bent gear lever shaft but seeing as the engine was out of the bike cos I blew the gearbox to bits anyway it doesn't seem like that much of a problem for now
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it didn't cop too much damage, the beauty of having trailbiked it. if it had been stock it would have trowelled the tank, guards and lights but plastic mx stuff is better adapted to being upside down
Spose you could now sell it on as a UK import!
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G,day Spotty, were are you in Melbourne? I retire 15yrs ago to Oz, on the Gold coast. I came back after 8yrs, got fed up! I have a lot of Ozzy family down in Melbourne, great place. Welcome to the forum
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I live up in Kalorama, on the top of mount Dandenong, lots of good riding to be had but down side is a plague of bloody tourists who shit themselves when they see a corner in the road
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Grew up I'm Aus. Lived in Croydon and Lilydale areas. Came back when 9, having imegrated there as £10 poms with my parents when I was less than 2.
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I lived on the border of Croydon and east Ringwood for a while, behind the Croydon hotel and I drive thru the middle of Croydon every day on the way to and from work