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Hideous Modifications From Your Past
Rozabikes Tim:
--- Quote from: SteveD CB500K0 on December 09, 2018, 01:05:19 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 :(
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Did that horny bit to my 500/4 too .... and ace bars. I was so cool 8) 8)
matthewmosse:
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!
AshimotoK0:
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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Rozabikes Tim:
Those look like megaphone flares too Ash! ;)
SteveD CB500K0:
Ash - Dunstalls on my CB175.
My mum always said she could hear me coming home from two valleys away!
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