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F2 Paul 876:
Yes PatM you are right about the CX they were a all season bike i rode it all year round .
The ones that took the piss had not ridden one, i found it the most comfortable bike i have had.
I dispatched on mine, did well over 130k on it before i was taken out on the west way and put it into the back of a petrol tanker it never hit the deck just well and truly stuck in the back of the tanker took 4 coppers to get it out  ;D, me went to the Hammersmith Hospital it to a breakers  :( .
I would have one again if i could afford one after my 2 rebuilds.
Paul
My CX over the years

PatM:
Paul

Ouch!- the joys of all-year round biking- I can recount some of those also- the best being when I dived under a Rover SD1 jumping a set of lights on my hack-of-a-A100 Suzi- only for the whole lot to burst into flames! Yep, recovery is slow process- skin-grafts take ages- and with a slimmer degree of certainty than restoring bikes.
I was waiting for my MOT last week and a couple of well-healed kids were debating what bike to get- R1, R6, etc- their education or parenting had done them proud- they certainly had some money by the sound of it. I engaged conversation, as the waiting for an MOT at Maidstone

Yoshi823:
Sorry this is highjacking the thread but the George at Shoreham used to be a haunt of mine back in the late '70s. There used to be a crowd of guys who had CB400/4s who called themselves the 'Bromley Racing Team' & would offer out anybody to race them up through the lanes to Badgers Mount roundabout & back again. But the pub had too many complaints about the hordes of bikes & had to ban bikers. I went back there a few years later, ordered a load of drinks, then put my leather jacket on. When they said we're not allowed to serve bikers we walked out ...& left the drinks on the bar unpaid.


The George used to be a good place to go to after the Mayday Run. We were too tired to cause any noise as the day was quite intense.


Them were the days.............

florence:
Hooray for CXs.  Lots of people say rude things about them but anyone who has ridden one will know how great they were.  Although quite heavy, mine would go round corners incredibly well leaning right over until everything was scratching and sparking, it took some nerve but once I realised what amazing traction it had there was no stopping me.  It devoured miles and was very comfortable. I had koni shocks to stiffen the rear and I had upside-down honda k4 handlebars.  When the exhausts fell apart I used a pair of old BSA A10 silencers on home-made flexible exhaust (from a tractor) down tube; sounded fantastic.  I discovered that sliding the forks an inch up in the yolks speeded up the steering and made it feel less heavy at the front.  I also cut down the saddle to improve the riding position.  One needs to sit 'in' a bike like that, not perch on top.  As the headlight unit was so ugly I replaced it with two CB125S units bolted together which made the bike look rather like a frog.

There were two downsides however, it did not have a kickstart so winter starting was always a pain and not an easy bike to bump start (always park on a hill I say).  The second problem was the water pump, which always leaked.

Yoshi823:
Knock...knock!



Who's there?



CX500!


An old joke, but one that I remember well. Several friends had CXs & they had numerous problems...big ends being the main one. Then generators. Then cam chain tensioners. And as said, water pump leaks.


Glad that I bought a CB550/4.

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