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New Member Introductions / Re: Newbie from Surrey
« on: December 08, 2023, 11:49:05 AM »
Oh, also a VFR750 FH that let me down last year, and after sitting in the back garden for a few months now, won't start. It'll be time to clean out the carbs - again then....sigh.

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New Member Introductions / Re: Newbie from Surrey
« on: December 08, 2023, 11:47:13 AM »
Thanks for the welcome chaps.
I did like my 400's, I'll start a fresh thread on my first one soon, I was 17 and it was my second bike after an AP50, and 'enjoyed' an infamous modification by Jock West  8)
I don't actually recall getting my knee down, or doing stoppies and wheelies, but perhaps it's just my bad memory  :)
Other projects? A '39 Triumph 6S, (well, actually two of those to be accurate), a '63 T90, a '60 T110 that has been built to look like a T120, an Armstrong Mt500 that is being converted to have an electric start as I have a hernia! A '76 CZ175 single, a mid fifties Peugeot 125 with a hand change. Oh and an Ariel Arrow and a '39 Norton that I'm rebuilding for other people.
So yes, some projects. Oops, nearly forgot a couple of Morris Minors, my son's saloon that is actually drivable, and my van that is in it's component pieces but has a new chassis to rebuild it all on to.
Sorry, you did ask ......... ;D

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New Member Introductions / Newbie from Surrey
« on: December 07, 2023, 11:20:23 PM »
Hi all, just joined, Tony in Surrey, not currently owning a sohc Honda, but had several 400/4s a few years ago, and briefly a 350/4. I've joined now as I have just come into a job lot of bike bits from a house clearance. The owner of the house had eclectic tastes, cars of the fifties and sixties, Brit bikes, mainly AMC and Ariel, but also Hondas. There appears to be a 500/4 engine plus more bits, including a few side panels in rather good condition, and possibly fork yokes and odds.
At the moment, stuff needs sorting, and it's in a storage facility, so can't be properly sorted until I get it home, but once it is, and I clean it all up, what I have will be available here first. I hate the fees that a certain auction site charge, so am happy to knock things out at reasonable prices.
Of course, there is always the option of keeping the bits and building up a bike, as a 16 year old I rode on the back of a mate's 500/4 with those separate exhaust pipes, and I loved it! However, I have many projects already, and my wife would kill me................
In the first instance, please don't ask exactly what's there, as I need to get it home first, but rest assured, by January I should have it all home, cheers.

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