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Anyone ever owned a CBX1000?

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Tomb:
My mate had one, it was a lemon, it had the camchain problem that a lot of Hondas suffered with at that time (controversial on here ;)). It ate tensioners and chains. We rebuilt the motor several times but it kept breaking the camchains, which in turn bent all the valves, which was bloody expensive to sort having 24 valves.

The local Honda dealer had the same problems as us with a few CBX's he'd sold, always back for new camchain and tensioners, with owners getting hacked off.

And as said, the forks were 35mm same as CB500, handling was dodgy.

In the end we rebuilt the motor one last time, fired it up, made sure it sounded sweet and put it up for sale, a lad in our engineering college class said he'd swap his newish XJ750 Seca for it, we reminded him of the trouble we'd had but he was insistent so the deal was done. My mate loved that Yammy, the CBX wrecked the motor again and the lad bought a completely different engine., which I don't think lasted too long either.

Laverda Dave:
I always wanted one and still have the giant Honda poster of one (I think it was the 1979 full range catalogue that folded out to reveal a silver CBX on the other side). I saw my first one in the flesh about a week after they went on sale, the mechanic at Bill Bun motorcycles in South Ealing had one although not for long!
About five years later I was offered a Kwack 1300 for £500 after the owner lost his license for speeding. I had a test ride around the streets of Victoria bus station where I worked. The first sharp left hand bend nearly had me off, I just wasn't expecting the weight, it was an absolute tank. I didn't buy it!

SteveD CB500K0:

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SteveD CB500K0:
Here’s the CBX in question.

Yes it is a wedding.

And yes, Nik and his bride rode off into the sunset.




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Orcade-Ian:
Great photo Steve,
Someone even dared to turn up to a wedding in an Austin All - Aggro!  My mate bough a new one of those and turned up at our house with a nearly flat tyre.  When I jacked it up to change the wheel for him, you couldn't open the driver's door.  Happy times!

Ian

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