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the-chauffeur:
<Jealous> Can't wait to get out on the K2, but am waiting on delivery of a Gordon frame kit from the US site.  Can't take the aggro of pulling the engine every time I wanna fiddle with the top end (adjustable cam sprocket maybe).  Am also awaiting a Dyna ignition for the CB450 from the US.  Needless to say, the wait(s) is killing me.

On the subject of heavy throttle, has anyone tried/used the lockwire trick - running a length or two of lockwire around the throttle cable groove in the handle?  I'm told it makes the throttle a bit more responsive without making any permanent alterations.

UK Pete:
I was thinking of getting a gorden frame kit, if i do it will go on my cafe racer project as this bike is going to be made from spare parts i have accumulated so chopping up the frame does not bother me, i must say what was Honda thinking when they designed the frame on these , it would have been so easy to make it different so as to be able to dismantle the top end in situ,
I have never heard of the throttle mod
How long have you got to wait for the stuff from USA?
Pete

Spitfire:
Never heard of the wire trick but we always used to put a pencil between the grip and the throttle tube to make it easier to use with thick gloves on.

Cheers

Den

the-chauffeur:

I'm guessing that when Honda made them, they only envisaged a five-year life cycle, and so didn't really plan for the engine coming out  ;)

Might just be me, but stuff from the 'states seems to be taking longer and longer to get here - particularly if it's sent USPS.  Apparently the surface mail option is now all but defunct, but even though they were sent air freight, the last few bits I ordered (another electronic ignition kit and a couple of NOS switchgears) took the best part of three weeks to appear - with the obligatory import and 'handling' charges attached. Whilst I can't pinpoint precisely where the main delays happen, I have a sneaking suspicion they're this end where Royal Mail meets HMRC. 

The Gordon kit is a bit different, in that it's not an off-the-shelf set of bits.  Once the guy who supplies them gets enough buyers (I think he needs fifteen-to-twenty for a viable run) he puts the order in and there's a two week machine time (which I think we're in the middle of that right now) - and then they're posted, again, USPS (or the Canadian equivalent).  He tells me that when my kit is taken in for posting, he's gonna mark the box as a low value commercial sample - which is technically correct - and so hopefully it won't get caught up in the RM/HMRC black hole.

Still seems a long way off . . .

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