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ian.allen2
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PostPosted: 17:44 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: My new bike Reply with quote

Hi, I have bought my first geared bike. I owned a Honda melody back in 1988 to go to work and back, but wanted a geared bike for years.
I have a Honda CB100N, 1978 T reg. I got it as a project and have been doing some work on it. I have stripped and rebuilt the engine.
This is how it was when I got it home
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/HondaCB100Nathome001_zps3d8b5b2f.jpg
I got another cb100n with it for spares.
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/HondaCB100Nathome013_zps5517311b.jpg
and a box of bits from the bike.
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/HondaCB100Nathome024_zps53a0e1dc.jpg
and a spare engine
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/HondaCB100Nathome029_zpsb572c9e1.jpg
This is how the bike looks now
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/Bikealmostcomplete003_zps79e6f111.jpg
https://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx46/ianallen2/Honda%20CB100N%20x2/Bikealmostcomplete001_zps647a6e4f.jpg
I am spraying the silver tank and side panels a metalic silver and will be putting it on the bike.. I dont like the bronze colour much and the logbook says silver.
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PostPosted: 20:01 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gj.

Put some mirrors on it, tho.
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PostPosted: 20:07 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aw, it's so plucky. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mirrors are on my shopping list. I have to buy, headlight bulb holder (or complete headlight), speedo cable, rev counter cable, exhaust, couple of small 6v bayonet bulbs for the clocks, and spray the tank and side panels silver. It is already taxed and mot'd. Got to take my cbt and insure it and it will be on the road.
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PostPosted: 21:16 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm always impressed with those with practical skills. . . and somewhat jealous Razz

Nice looking bike! Smile
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PostPosted: 21:34 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well done restoring Thumbs Up Love the fact that people put so much time into things like this to bring them back to life
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 31 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have enjoyed stripping htis bike and rebuilding it. It is the first air cooled engine I have worked on. i used to work on car engines and loved stripping a Pinto engine and rebuilding it. I find bike engines easy though. I stripped two engines and made one good one. I have plenty of spares though but not enough to build another engine without buying new parts. . As the othr bike sor spares was about 90% there, I have the choice of painting a part and then swapping it over on the bike. That is what I am doing with the tank. Done that to the rear lights / number plate holder. It will look better when it is silver instead of the bronze tank with silver panels. The original spoked wheels are a bit rusty and pitted so I have kept the 125 alloy wheels on it and just painted hte steel spokes. Makes it look better. I would have prefered to have the original wire spokes on, but I cant afford the rechroming.
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PostPosted: 17:48 - 01 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you re-chrome your exhaust?
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PostPosted: 15:04 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: CB100N Reply with quote

Thwas my CB100 when I sold it. I wish I still had it. Had lots of 50cc mopeds since and have restored a few too. I hope the pic loads. It is the only pic I have of the bike.
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PostPosted: 17:57 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

so what are you riding now?
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PostPosted: 18:29 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

to v or not to v wrote:
so what are you riding now?


Nothing. My last 5 rescue repair / restorations have turned out worse than expected. One was a Honda Sh50, I bought with logbook etc from the owner and it had been taken off DVLA registry so it neededto have a vosa check and a different check on it, plus re-registering to get it registered for our roads again. Wasnt worth the hassle. Next was a Honda Camino I bought cheap, stripped it down and found it was only worth being a parts bike, then a PGO 50 which turned out it needed a lot more than I had done to it and spent what the bike was worth so sold it for a break even, no profit, then a 125 chinese bike Zhongyu 125 (Suzuki GN125 clone) which I got started and done other repairs. Ran great until I listed it for sale and it refused to start. Someone wanted it for £400 (knocked me down from £500), but when he came out to view ,we could not get it started. I put it on ebay and took what ever it sold for. I lost £100 on it so I gave up buying non runners.
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PostPosted: 19:08 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the thing about project bikes. People only talk about the successful jobs, and not the failures. As a result, you get survivorship bias. Some optimism is always needed. However, I think the majority of projects end up as unfinished, and sold on Ebay as unfinished projects... The "most miserable Ebay bike" thread here shows up what happens to some of these. I think these types of negative experiences trying to bring an old bike back to life probably motivate a lot of people to just buying a modern retro of some sort. BMW Boxer, Moto Guzzi, Street Twin, etc. For me, personally, it was a real eye-opener when I discovered that a lot of the "real biker" lot (I mean the apparently club/MAG types on Youtube who make "rats" - not the BCF type if there even is one) don't actually know anything about bikes. It isn't uncommon to see a horrendous "putting back on the road" job on Youtube that lasts for 5 years and still results in something that hardly works, and looks like it's been set on fire and thrown in a skip. With projects come failures, and they cost a lot of money, too.
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PostPosted: 21:18 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

So true. Here is the best one I restored.
Honda SA50. Paid £60 delivered to me. First thing I bought and got before I received the moped was the seat cover and a used seat. The moped was seized everywhere .The first pics are as I received with the seat and side panels removed. I started on it the next day and stripped ity down completely to the bare frame. Unseized the engine, variators and brakes. Then unseized the cables. elded hte bottom with a plate, much stronger than factory. Painted the frame, polished the plastics, bought new white plastic trim and rear light lens. Cleaned the carb and oil tank. Got it running and it ran very good.
The moped was 3 years old when the owner passed his driving test and left the moped in the back garden of his mothers house. 17 - 18 years later, he decided to collect it and get it on the road. He told me it was too much for him as he didnt know what was to be done. He was going to scrap it. I said he couldnt do that as it had potential. He said I could have it for free but it would cost me £30 in fiel to deliver it to me. I agreed but said I would giver him £60 total. 3 months later, it is what you seer in the last pics and I had taken it for its first ever mot. It passed with flying colours and no advisories. I sold it with a £200 profit and now I wish I still had it. lol. I even rode it for a while and I had the needle bouncing off the speedo doing more than 40mph.
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PostPosted: 21:20 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didnt seem to load the last pics
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PostPosted: 21:26 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully these pics will load
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PostPosted: 23:40 - 09 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pics worked Thumbs Up

Wow, looks like a family of rodents lived in that one! Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:15 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bhud wrote:
Pics worked Thumbs Up

Wow, looks like a family of rodents lived in that one! Laughing


It was a mess. Lots of dead grass and cobwebs. lol.
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PostPosted: 09:22 - 10 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cant see the pics of it finished with the white walls on. I added it.
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PostPosted: 10:14 - 11 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I can't see the finished pics.
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PostPosted: 14:37 - 11 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a link to a slideshow of the SA50 Met In
https://animoto.com/play/1616xUfe7djoXCJS9wBgHQ
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PostPosted: 07:35 - 18 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

ian.allen2 wrote:
Here is a link to a slideshow of the SA50 Met In
https://animoto.com/play/1616xUfe7djoXCJS9wBgHQ


Cool transformation for that small scoot! Nice
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PostPosted: 10:51 - 18 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

carbon90 wrote:
ian.allen2 wrote:
Here is a link to a slideshow of the SA50 Met In
https://animoto.com/play/1616xUfe7djoXCJS9wBgHQ


Cool transformation for that small scoot! Nice




Thanks. I forgot to add in the story of it, I added a light inside the top box so when the lid opened, the light came on so items could be seen in the dark.
I wish I still had the scoot, but I needed the money at the time.
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PostPosted: 11:40 - 18 Nov 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

ian.allen2 wrote:

I wish I still had the scoot, but I needed the money at the time.


Shame, nice work & fun job.
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