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jimbothe
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 12 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

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p.s. in the top photo is that a hole i spie on the rim? (black dot)


Nope, it's black paint but admittedly I had to double check. Shifty


The disc is closer to the fork leg on the '83 one by a fair bit actually.

Roughly measured - '83 = 6mm from outer disc to inner leg and '78 = 14mm from outer disc to inner leg.

The disc is more pronounced on the '83 as in it tapers out a lot more from the spindle whereas the '78 on is almost flat to the wheel.
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PostPosted: 22:14 - 12 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm damn so would have to swap the forks out as well for that wheel to fit.

will have to keep looking then, if it was only 2-4mm out i could make a spacer for the back of the disc but when its 8mm and over its a bit pointless.

cheers any way mate
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PostPosted: 19:27 - 21 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow! awesome build, well done. love the CB125T`s and the pup is a credit TO YOU!.

i did an older version a few years back.


from this


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to this


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nice to see the oldun`s gettin restored
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PostPosted: 20:42 - 17 Oct 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did mean to ask. Did the headlight fit?
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PostPosted: 20:47 - 17 Oct 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

jimbothe wrote:
I did mean to ask. Did the headlight fit?


Yeah thanks took at lot of persuasion, haven't been out to try it out yet though
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PostPosted: 20:54 - 17 Oct 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

SnowTigeress wrote:
jimbothe wrote:
I did mean to ask. Did the headlight fit?


Yeah thanks took at lot of persuasion, haven't been out to try it out yet though


Yes, a LOT of persuasion... mostly to persuade ME to go out and solder new connections on where she ripped the ruddy things off atacking the wiring to get the old one off!

Lamp shell is about 3/4" too wide for mounting, so that had to be wrestled in with old butter knives!

And its pointing 'low' because tops fouling on the clock cluster....

So she has been pondering using spacers to lift the clocks off it, or whether to try cleaning up the round dial clocks off 'Number 8 - The-Hedge' and doing something with them instead.

But in the meantime I have been trying to persuade HER to go out and try the ruddy headlamp in the dark!
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 17 Oct 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol, to my recollection it was pretty damn bright.

I have a garage full of washers and bits and bobs if you need any Wink Just let me know and I'll sort some out.
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 15 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was it really October I last did anything with the-Pup? Well, Fitted Jimbo's GS500 Headlamp, but it wasn't a good fit; and we couldn't adjust it low enough... but then the insurance ran out; but I had JUST got a new Flat, so it stayed with Tef, as I got stuck into decorating my new home and 'Stuff', and then we had 'Christmas'... BUT, bored now, got nothing left to paint or wrap or unwrap! And we had a SUNNY DAY last week...

So I decided to 'clean' the bike.... Tef asked why I needed a socket set to polish stuff. MEN! They just dont understand!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2381.jpg

I HAD to take it all to bits to get into all the awkward nooks and crannies, DIDN'T I!

Rather annoyed actually, that a winter's weather has managed to rust the loverly chrome handle-bars rather badly. So they have been taken off and polished, and given a coat of clear laquer to try and keep them shiney.

Anyway, while it was apart Tef said we could 'have a look' at this head-lamp.... BUT, well, you SEE, he has been 'shopping' and got a whole load of bits for his Colonal-Custard.....

And these rather fancy HID Headlamp bulbs were just 'sitting' there on the table, cluttering the place up, so I thought that I'd help him tidy the place a bit and put one in the-Pup! WELL... he only needs ONE in the DT, doesn't he? So:-
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PostPosted: 22:56 - 15 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Round 7" Headlamp Conversion with HID Bulbs - Part 1

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This had been considered during the main 'build' of the project; to get as much light out of the thing as I can, and keep the electrical wattage 'sensible' with all the other gadgets I wanted; But Tef, gibbering about spending so much money on everything else, reckoned they were too expensive... but he got this pair for £40, so split between the two bikes isn't so bad.

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First thing to do was check it fitted in the headlamp. Guess what. It didn't! The standard H4 headlamp with the connector on the back is 'almost' the same length, but the HID is just a couple of mm longer, and has the high-voltage wire coming out straight.

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Tef's solution to this problem on his little DT headlamp, was to cut a walloping great hole in the back of the shell! So that's what I did! Marking it out by making punch-marks around a circle drawn round a head-lamp gromet, then drilling lots of little holes round the egde.

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Then I drilled them out a bit bigger to leave a thin perforated circle, like a tax-disc, I could knock out with a hammer! I liked that bit!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2358.jpg

Trial fitted over the headlamp lense, it was a little 'tight' around the bottom of the bulb, where the wire comes out, and it needs a little extra space there as the lense has to be 'hinged' into the bowl. So, cleaning up the ragged edges, with file and dremmel, and making nice round-ish hole.

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All cleaned up, and trial fitted again, bulb sits in the hole nicely.

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Tef showed me a trick to make an edge protector/grommet, using some PVC tubing. Slice the pipe along it's length, careful to cut in a straight line and not have the pipe 'twist' as you cut...

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2369.jpg

Then open up the cut and slot it around the metal edge you want to protect.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2370.jpg

One protected metal edge, that wires wont 'fret' on.

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https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2373.jpg

So, now to make the head-lamp fit the bike.

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The 7" Diameter lense Suzuki Head-Lamp is just a LITTLE bit toio big to go into the Super-Dream lamp bracket. We managed to squeeze it in there, by springing the blades out a bit, but, this was why we couldn't get the aim right. Sitting so tight to all the wiring and the speedo & tacho cable's, there was no space for it to 'tilt'.

Measuring up, Tef reckoned that we needed the lamp about an inch further forwards, and the brackets about half an inch futher apart.

I looked at e-bay and investigated after-market head-lamp brackets, but, the Super-Dream has a sort of wire basket between the two fork yokes, and it supports clocks and has cable guides and 'stuff' in it.

Tef had bought some aluminium plate to make the clock bracket for Colonal-Custard.....

Tef spent AGES working out how much they would need to be 'cranked' to sit inside the bracket and outside the head-lamp, until we realised that the headlamp was just about the same width as the outside of the bracket and we could make two flat plates and simply bolt them on the OUTSIDE!

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A piece of plate was marked up, using a head-lamp bracket bush as a template, with the hole centres 35mm apart.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2382.jpg

Drilled, and filed to shape.

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The original bracket holes were drilled out to take an M10 bolt, and then the new extensions bolted on place so the head-lamp shell could be fitted. MUCH better, its not rubbing on teh speedo & Tacho cables now, and can TILT! So hopefully be able to point it at the ROAD!

NEXT: The horn bracket has to be removed and a new one made up to take both the horn and the HID Balast box.
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 17 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Credit to the Tigress and the Tef, this little Honda must be loving it`s second life Thumbs Up

Keep up the good work Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 03:45 - 18 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Round 7" Headlamp Conversion with HID Bulbs - Part 2

Right, so we have sorted getting the big round head-lamp to fit on the bike, and we have got the long HID Bulb to fit in the big round headlamp... and we were looking at making a new horn bracket to mount the HID Ballast Resistor to.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2388.jpg

Top, is the old horn bracket. I spent ages sanding and painting this, along with lots of other little bits and bobs like it... and NOW its being taken off! It was hidden behind a plastic grille that covered the horn, and when I first put the round headlamp on, the grill wouldn't fit under it, so I had to leave it off. And I thought that that horn and bent bracket was 'ugly', until Tef came in waving a tape measure and cut that even UGLIER bit of aluminium! This would HAVE to be made 'Pretty'!

Anyway, in the middle is the Ballast resistor. Electric box of tricks that makes HID Headlamps work, and says 'Danger - High Voltage' on it!

Tef spent ages outside with a tape measure wiggling it and that bit of plate around,until he came back in, marked the holes and started drilling!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2390.jpg

Meanwhile he got ME soldering connections on the ends of a bit of wire he had cut, which he told me was 'essential' to earth the ballast box.

Then he bolted it all together, to try it for size.

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Back

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Front

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Fitted.

After all Tef's faffing around with the tape measure, it all seemed to go together allright.... but GAWD it's UGLY!

He-he.. time to remidy THAT!

Tef had one little modification to make, putting a notch in the top so a second bolt could be fitted to stop the horn rotating about it's bolt... then I painted it black, and added a little 'Sparkle'

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2396.jpg

Some Rhinestone 'Diamante' stick-on letters, off e-bay! Hey, a girl GOTTA have 'Bling'! But this was NOT enough, Oh-No!

Do you remember, Tef had bought a load of 'bits' for his Colonel Custard? Well Iyz been ROBBIN again!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2397.jpg

Tef had got a LOAD of LED's. Red ones, Green ones, Amber Ones, White Ones, ALL manner of colours, 50 of each! But in amongst them all, he'd got just FIVE fancy 'Rainbow' colour changing ones... so of course, with so MANY to choose from.... Thats what I nicked!

Cant have Bling unless it gets flashed about, can you, and what better way to flash it about but stick a spot lamp on it! So that's what we did!

To make a housing for the LED's (actually one Rainbow, and one Purple) & spread the light about more evenly and in the right direction; in good Blue-Peter 'Make and Do' fasion, Tef sat down with some scissors (an irresponsible adult was on hand to supervise!); sticky tape, glue, and whatever old rubbish was lying around to go in the recycling tub for the bin-men!

What he came up with was a bit of clear plastic cut from a curtain pole box, folded to make a small toblerone tube shape 'thing' covered in tin-foil.... with a little square left clear. (Tin foil, shiney side up on the inside)

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2398.jpg

Plastic covered in tin foil & folded

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Joined & glued.

The LED's were then threaded in, and the ends plugged with Silicone sealant, with a bit more tin-foil over the back to stop light coming out the ends, then a bit more silicone!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2400.jpg

Then the 'window' masked off, painted black.

MORE soldering to make up a wire to connect it to the side light, and....

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2409.jpg

With the lights on...

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Lights%20and%20wiring/imag2408.jpg

With the Light's off.... PWITTEEEeeeee!

SO! That's the horn bracket 'made'.... Just laqured over to stop the Rhinestones coming off. Now just need to fit it up, and sort out all the wiring, so we can try it out!
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PostPosted: 21:05 - 18 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smile Now you`re showing off Tut Tut Smile
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PostPosted: 11:22 - 19 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Round 7" Headlamp Conversion with HID Bulbs - Part 3

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With the bracket 'finished' just a matter of fitting it to the fork-yoke, and connecting up all the wires.

The HID 'bits' sit outside the headlamp shell, wound amongst the loom and the original bracket frame.

It's a bit of a tangle of wrigglies, but the headlamp is sitting better in the shell now, and it all works...

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/imag2415.jpg

Bit of tidying and as dusk falls...

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This lamp is definitely BRIGHT! Just in the garden, it lights up so much more at the side of the bike, while the beam seems a lot brighter much further away from the bike. It's also very 'White', and I'm hoping that this will make a big difference to night riding where the old bulbs were rather 'yellow'.
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PostPosted: 13:09 - 19 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might have a hard time at MOT with the new HID bulb - I think the MOT regs now specify that it has to be self-levelling, or something.
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PostPosted: 13:26 - 19 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

nowhere.elysium wrote:
You might have a hard time at MOT with the new HID bulb - I think the MOT regs now specify that it has to be self-levelling, or something.



We dropped off Tefs car to have some work done on it and get it Moted so when we pick the car back up,going into the Mot to have the light setup and ill ask them then
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PostPosted: 13:31 - 19 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We dropped off Tefs car to have some work done on it and get it Moted so when we pick the car back up,going into the Mot to have the light setup and ill ask them then


Fair enough. The fact that you're repeat customers may well help a bit on this, too Smile
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PostPosted: 13:33 - 19 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

nowhere.elysium wrote:
You might have a hard time at MOT with the new HID bulb - I think the MOT regs now specify that it has to be self-levelling, or something.


There's been a bunch of changes mentioned; I think they said something about retro-fitted HID's being banned...

Ultimately, it's 'just' a bulb.... if MOT man even bothers to check what kind of bulb is in there, or asks.... He COULD fail it... but he knows as well as I do, bike gets ridden home, the HID pulled from the shell, H4 fitted... Wiring is all still there for it..... ballast & header for the PIR would still be on the bike, and twenty minutes later he'd have the bike back for 'Re-Test'.... twenty minutes after THAT, H4 would be 'pulled' and the HID slotted back into place.....
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PostPosted: 23:50 - 20 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking good Thumbs Up Smile

See plenty of effort (and showing off) going on here Wink
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PostPosted: 00:01 - 21 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

jimbothe wrote:
Looking good Thumbs Up Smile

See plenty of effort (and showing off) going on here Wink


Not trying to showing off just have idea`s and then ask if its possible.....thats the fun in having a project
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 21 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anything is possibly with the right tools, intuition and deep enough pockets Very Happy


You're doing a grand job and customising is customising. Doesn't matter how or why, all that matters is that you like it. Thumbs Up
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four Years. FOUR YEARS.
I dont know whether it feels like an eternity or just yesterday I started this post!
We watch them though, dont we, and so many get started then dissapear down the board; most without an ending, and you woinder what happens to them. Then there's the ones that do get finished, and, well, you still wonder what has happned to them. After all the work and all the hopes and dreams, and that thrilling first ride... do they ever last past that first summer?

My last post on the thread, was in January 2012, nine months after I got the Pup on the road, his first MOT cert in my hand, and a big smile on my face; and told you all about my sparkly LED's and HID headlamp.

Went very quiet after that, and the reason was he was STOLEN! But I got him back. but my enthusiasm was rather dented.

But, before he was nicked, I had started to write a post telling you all about fitting a customised top box; so, bringing you up to date, I shall start there, around April 2012.
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PostPosted: 10:10 - 01 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

(Written April 2012 & Never posted)
Fitting the Top-Box or A girl GOTTA 'accessorise'! (Part 1)

For all that 'the-Pup' has had pretty much a show-standard, custom build, it was ALWAYS going to have to work for a living after. To which end I wanted a top-box, to put my hat in, and cart stuff around. This required much deliberation. E-Bay turned up a lot of ideas, but going over to 'Busters' and looking at some boxes in the plastic, even more!

The cheap ones were, for the most part pretty small, and very flimsy, and I was warned about the cheap ones with plastic mounting plates that frequently broke. But I eventually turned up some reasonably priced ones with a metal mounting plate, that looked quite useful, only I wasn't sure how big to get.

I had originally thought small, and looked at 25l ish, but the one I had looked at in Busters was TINY. So I was looking at 35 & 45l boxes. Tef said that a 45l box would be HUGE.. "That's as big as the paniers I had on my VF" He said.... "Look!" and brought one down and put it on the rack.... "Actually......." he capitulated..... "You could get away with that! Its no wider than the indicators, and it actually looks slimmer, than the little one at Busters!" So I bought one. FD-Moto, off e-bay, under £40... bargain!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2622.jpg

Tough Polyeurathane, with a metal base plate. It's tougher than the cheapo's I was looking at in Busters, though not quite as thick and durable as the Nonfango's tef has. But then less than half the money! Only thing that's not 'so' nice is the latch which feels a bit 'flimsy'

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Easy to fit though. Four bolts and two plates clamp the base plate to the rack.

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And doesn't look SO big on the bike, yet will take two full face helmets, with a bit of a jiggle, but my full face and wet-weathers with ease!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2177.jpg

But.... posher versions have lights in that red reflective strip....... and Tef had all these LED's he had bought to do the DT.......

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2500.jpg

Watching what Tef did to make back-lights for the DT's dials, I started soldering resistors on the -ve leg of some LED's.... well LOTS of LED's actually!

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I has sort of started by plonking LED's on the plastic strip to see how far apart they would be and how many I would need.... 24 in total, so after adding resistors to them I sort of taped them in place then pondered how to wire them all up and 'stuff'!

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Tef suggested poking them through the backing paper that goes behind the strip, but this was just a white bit of paper, so first I covered it in Tin-Foil tgo make it shinier..... "Better make sure all the leads are properly insulated then!" said Tef! Darn! Tin-Foil conducts electricity, doesn't it! Spent AGES taping each little LED leg, and covering the tin-foil in celotape!

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Then I had to connect them all together! I kept cutting little lengths off the really thin wire rather than stripping the ends! took AGES to do this!

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The -ve side of each LED with the resistor on, could all be joined together on a common 'earth', but to every third LED was going to be powered from the tail-light, while the two between them were going to be powered by the stop-lamp... in the hope that the stop lamp would be three times as bright as the tail light.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2620.jpg

Damnebly fiddly! AND once done, they all had to be soldered! BUT....
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SnowTigeress
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PostPosted: 10:10 - 01 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

(Written April 2012 & Never posted)
Fitting the Top-Box or A girl GOTTA 'accessorise'! (Part 2)

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Top-Box, no lights

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Top-Box, Tail-Lights

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Top-Box, Brake-Lights

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2625.jpg

Top-Box, Brake-Lights and Tail-Lights

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So, on the bike. We used a water-proof connector to attach the wires to the bike, so that the top-box can be removed.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/top-box/imag2635.jpg

In the dark, all lights 'off' the camera flash mimicking a car headlamp to show how much is reflectie!

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Again, in the dark, with the camera flash, but tail light only, no box light

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Now with the top box tail light

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And with brake and tail lights.

POSH OR WOT!
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PostPosted: 10:18 - 01 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

the Theft

We'd had a busy Easter with Tef's kids. His Bike was 'done' and waiting for pay-day to get an MOT on it, BUT..... it wasn't THERE any-more! Saturday night, about 1am he went down to make a coffee, and looking out the window saw something bright and flapping that wasn't quite 'right'..... it was the pink flash on my bike cover.... HIS bike under a blue cover was GONE!

Sunday, was spent cruising around all the local scroat spots trying to find it, to no avail, and dealing with the police. Monday, instead of sorting the MOT, he was sorting the insurance company. THEN we went to ASDA to get groceries.....

Got back, let the dog out.... and he DIDN'T run into MY bike! THAT was 'gone' too! B'STARDS had forced the back-door and nicked the keys to get it!

Oh Fer FLUCKSAKE!

ALL the keys...... Tef had six more Super-Dreams, PLUS his 750 and 1000! This shit just turns your stumouch. They'd been IN THE HOUSE! They had the KEYS to ALL tef's bikes! It was like being cought in an earthquake.... it seriousely shakes your foundations.

But life goes on.

More dealing with police. More dealing with insurance companies. More trawling round the scroat sites; though we were both loath to leave the house incase they came back.....

Tuesday, Tef was trying to work out what to do about the locks on the other bikes, when the police called. They had found 'The Pup'.

Some frantic phone calls were made, and Tef managed to borrow some money from his mum, so we could go get it back from the compound, DREADING what state it would be in, after we paid the exhorbitant police Ransom to get it back!

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Recovered/imag2647.jpg

It could have been worse.......

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It could have been a LOT worse!

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My spandangly top-box was 'gone'...

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Recovered/imag2645.jpg

But it was mostly just muddy.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Recovered/imag2646.jpg

My HID Head-Lamp was still there.... they hadn't done the usual thing of ripping the lamp out to get to the ignition wiring....... no.... course they didn't.... they'd got the KEYS!

We didn't! So I couldn't start it up or anything to see if it still ran! OR lock it back up so they couldn't have it away again!

Tef left me moping, and went on a tour of the local motor-cycle shops and hardware stores, spending the last of the cash his mum had loaned him on pad-locks and a new disc-lock, while I ordered YET another lock-set off e-bay!

I was cooking dinner, when Tef went outside to put the new pad-locks on the old chains. It was rather disconcerting when he came back in ten minutes later, and I asked what was up, and he said, 'Nothing - Done'

Eight bikes; Eight heavy-duty padlocks, one disc lock. DOES NOT increase your confidence when he chopped them all off in barely a minute a lock!

There were NOT 'Cheap' locks either!

Only solace I had was that few scroats walk round with 14" Angle Grinders in thier pockets!

BUT, new pad-locks and a new disc-lock, I was a LITTLE more comfortable.....

But BUGGER ME!

After a frought filled day, we had an early night....... let the dog out for a wee..... WHAT THE FUCK!

All the covers had been pulled off the bikes! Not fully, and from different sides! JUST enough to get at the bludy chains!

They'd come BACK!

While we were IN!

And had ANOTHER fucking go!

It was like another, BIGGER earth tremour.

Both Tef and I were almost set to chuck in the towel.

How could he keep doing project bikes up, only to have them keep getting nicked. HOW much security would we need JUST to hang onto the bikes we had!

Would they be BACK tomorrow?

I mean, they had the keys and must of thought they were laughing, till they found that Tef had, LUCKILY swapped all the locks!

But.... would they be back with tools? Would they have another go at breaking in the house for the keys again?! What would we have to do? MOVE!

Tef shrugged, and found heart doing what NEEDED to be done. One of his project bikes was still stripped down, and conveniently its keys had been in its petrol cap lock, which doesn't release the key unless the cap is in the tank...

So he set about drilling out the tank-lock and removing all the others, to swap them. Again, something of a confidence shaker to watch him burst the seat-lock so he could lift the seat and get at the seat-lock screws in a mater of moments..... Blokes too honest...... he'd be an 'ace' at this bike nicking lark!

Anyway, new ignition lock fitted, could start the engine and see how it ran. It did. Seems that they nicked it, got as far as the park two blocks away, but got cornered and dumped it at the bottom of a foot-bridge. Petrol tank was still nearly full.

But I wasn't comfortable. I had my doubts that the bike was still 'good'.... and I felt it had been voilated, so REALLY didn't want to ride it.

But, was May, just shy of a month before the aniversary of its post resoration MOT... so Tef got me to clean it up, then took it down to our happy MOT chappy..... and told him the story, and asked him to give it a THOROUGH going over......

He did, and was still as thrilled with it after a year as he had been when it was new built, and was impressed by the new HID headlamp too! Gave me SOME heart, but I was still not happy, and I was reluctant to get on and ride.....
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PostPosted: 10:20 - 01 Jun 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Summer 2012

Wasn't. Well, it wasn't a summer! It rained all the time.

Rain and tests. Tef kept booking me in for another Mod 2 every time I failed for a stupid mistake; BUT, 13 September I finally passed!

Next morning I looked at the Pup, and I KNEW there was something wrong... so started taking him apart to work out what it was! I couldn't figure it out.
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Eventually worked it out... Tef had taken the L-Plates off!
Actually... he's swapped engines! This is about the only 'work' the Pup's had since I finished the resto.
I had wanted to do an engine rebuild; but with costs mounting and the project dragging out, Tef had convinced me to just service the engine and use as was. But after a few hundred miles, it had been belching smoke and sounding a bit sick, so we'd swapped it for an engine Tef had just top-end rebuilt for another project; and when I got my licence.. he wanted it back! So swapped it for another one from his pile of ready spares, that had 6v electrics and a kick-starter, we think came from a full-power, pre 1981 bike.
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My first L-Less ride!
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And we went to the Vic-Biker's pub at Coalville with Smiler, to celebrate.

Because that REALLY is the end of the 'Project', which was to build a bike to learn my mechanics and get my licence.

But, the Pup soldiers on.
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