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« on: January 16, 2024, 05:47:30 PM »
Good luck Tony. I was going to go but most of my mates have cried off (I tend to catch up @ Kempton)
Anything to do with the cold? I'll be there come what may, thermals and wooly hat de rigeur!
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« on: January 16, 2024, 04:07:32 PM »
Hi all, I will have my usual stall at this Saturday's (20th) Kempton Park autojumble. I usually have mainly British bits, but this Saturday I hope to take as much of the Honda stuff that we cleared out of a house clearance just before Christmas. Anyone who wants to have a rummage is welcome. I've already sold some side panels, a rear light bracket and a rev counter to several guys on here. I have no idea how much of some of this stuff is worth, so am scouring eBay etc to try and gauge prices. I am trying to be fair, but without doing myself a disservice. Most of it is Honda CB500/4, but with a possible smattering of other bits. I'm on stall 114, back against the race course, and around the middle of the line. My wife's Tesla that I'm borrowing should stand out against all the vans!  Just a taster, one of several sets of carbs, complete with manifolds and cables.
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« on: January 16, 2024, 03:35:12 PM »
Interesting, in amongst the job lot of Honda bits I came upon recently is this......
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« on: December 14, 2023, 04:07:49 PM »
A better picture, (ie I'm not in it!).
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« on: December 14, 2023, 03:49:13 PM »
I had a CR250RS, W reg, back in the early Nineties. Used it for commuting for less than a year. Can't remember why I sold it, but to be honest it was a nice bike, great fun on twisty A roads. The chain and sprockets never used to last too long on them, the giveaway was a bad vibration through the left footpeg.
That's weird, thought I was replying to a different thread 
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« on: December 14, 2023, 11:38:56 AM »
Hi all, on my avatar, my original 400/4, (on my other thread, was a Jock Kerr 250/4 for a while until I passed my test). I then rode it as a 400 for a year, and sold it after painting it black. Years later, late '90s I think, I saw it at a local pub, now red again, but with Comstar wheels. I've just checked on Direct.Gov and saw the latest logbook was issued in January this year! Though still listed as black. So, she's still out there, anyone on here?
Cheers, Tony.
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« on: December 14, 2023, 07:57:47 AM »
It's in better condition than my 1:1 scale Myford 
Ditto........
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« on: December 13, 2023, 08:29:58 AM »
Wasn't he a sidecar racer too?? World champion etc...
You're thinking of Jock Taylor!
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« on: December 12, 2023, 10:30:27 PM »
Interesting, I'll have to peruse the forum some more...........
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« on: December 12, 2023, 08:27:33 PM »
So was that to get around the 250cc rule for L plates yet still have four cylinders?
Might have been easier to go for a 250 Dream or DupercSport they were pretty nippy back in the day.
One of the arguments put forward by Kerr's, was that you didn't need to change bikes, especially back in those days with HP etc. You could have the same bike first as a 250, then a 400 when you passed your test, and then later use one of their big bore kits, or other tuning goodies. They did all sorts, including turbo kits, though mainly for the bigger fours. I wonder if anyone on this forum had any experience of Jock Kerr's?
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« on: December 12, 2023, 08:10:06 PM »
Thought some of you might find this amusing. Way back in '79, as a 17 year old looking for my first 'proper' bike after my moped, a blue Suzuki AP50; I was reading an article in Motor-Cycle Weekly, (I preferred it to MCN). They featured a 250cc conversion for the 400/4 offered by Hertfordshire tuning company, Jock Kerr racing developments. All my mates were buying RD, XS and various Honda 250's, and I've always liked to be different. Anyway, after trading in my Suzuki at Keith Manning motorcycles in Wokingham, I found myself the proud owner of a Honda 400/4, in red, reg number NDP 85R.
I booked it in with Jock Kerr's for a few week's time, and had to just wait. Naturally one Saturday when mum and dad went shopping, I couldn't resist taking it out for a quick blast up the A30 to Blackbushe airport. I only went about three or four miles, but it scared the life out of me, after a 50cc moped, it seemed like a rocket ship!
Long story short, after they had converted it to a 250, which consisted of sleeving the cylinder and using smaller pistons, which left the combustion chambers mushroom shaped, it wasn't much faster than a 125, if that! It was frankly dog-slow, you had to take it to 11,000 in 5th, lay flat on the tank, and you could just about get 70 on the clock. It wouldn't even pull 6th gear.
If I had my time again, I wouldn't have bothered, but it was kind of cool to be 17 years old riding what looked to be a 400.
And yes, that's me in my avatar back then, you can just about see the 'L' plate on the bottom of the rear mudguard.
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« on: December 09, 2023, 10:56:51 PM »
Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I saw the title and thought it was going to be something George Formby and motorcycle related..............
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« on: December 09, 2023, 10:53:03 AM »
I had a CR250RS, W reg, back in the early Nineties. Used it for commuting for less than a year. Can't remember why I sold it, but to be honest it was a nice bike, great fun on twisty A roads. The chain and sprockets never used to last too long on them, the giveaway was a bad vibration through the left footpeg.
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« on: December 09, 2023, 12:29:09 AM »
Welcome to the forum.
Thank you
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« on: December 08, 2023, 12:30:50 PM »
Welcome ... always nice when you find a stash of parts and thanks for giving us the heads up on them first !
Oxford Classic Honda had a T90 with supposedly 2k miles on the clock for £2.2k a couple of years back and I was tempted but it sold whilst I was still pondering. But I bought my Honda C110 from him last year and he (Charlie) told me a nearby restorer had bought the T90 and was disappointed that it wasn't as good as he had expected ... so a narrow escape there.
Blimey, that's cheap! I know prices have dropped, but I would still expect to pay around 3k for a T90 if it was all there.
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