Only taken two years..

[mr.z]

https://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~noriba74/images/bike/foghorn.jpg

The fog and the idiots this time of year inspired me to fit the fog horns again, it'll fit the other one once i wqork out where to put the fecker..

It'll be good to use them again, the pfffarp of the tired one its replaceing dosn't really get much notice..


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[owdamer]

That brings back a few memories. Way back in the early 80's my mate have a honda superdream with engine bars on it. After one to many near misses with myopic car drivers he fitted airhorns and spotlights onto the crash bars. It looked the strangest thing as it approached you in the dark, you saw the regular round headlamp, then either side at about foot height you saw these 2 incredibly bright rectangular lights. If you failed to see those then there was this deafening ffffwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp

[mr.z]

https://img492.imageshack.us/img492/4710/dscf00223zq.jpg

Funny you should mention stupidly bright headlamps

I've been driveing about all day waiting to try the horn out and sure enough some nob pulled out in front of me on a mini roundabout (why can people not understand these?) looked like a startled animal! and according to my girlfriend i scared the crap out of some old ladys at the same time!

Can't wait to try it on some chavs walking in the middle of the road as they like to do here...

I'm looking for the connecting pipe to fit the other horn and have figured out a better mounting place
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[virus]

makes me want to hide a stebel nautilus on my cg125, 140db next time someone pulls out on me lol
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own: 81 xs1100g...
owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[Finglonga]

[virus]

been thinking about it today, I dont think i would be able to mount one anywere on the CG and I wouldnt be able to just connect it up to the old horn wires because it needs a relay or something like that.
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own: 81 xs1100g...
owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[palmer]

[kawashima]

[XR125]

Wow, awesome bike. I want an Airhorn on my XR125 too lol.

I tried looking your bike up in google images but couldn't find on the same - infact no where near it. That'd be an awesome bike for touring on - which I'd love to do across europe.

[mr.z]

Hi kawashima,

I have the name of it somewhere its was fitted in 1986, all fiberglass and its the only one ive ever seen ANYWHERE, so i'm figreing only a handfull were made or it was a very limited run from a small company out of a shed.. your best bet is trying to make a frame to fit a faring off an existing bike maybe? (this has a frame from the headstock and also frames similar to crash bars it contacts to on the sides)

It works very well, the bottom half comes off in summer as it causes all the engine heat to rise up at you (really not fun in traffic) also for maintainance..

In wind it can blow the bike arround allot, but saves on neck strain and its not nearly as cold when it gets down to 0ºc and below (allthough bar mounted farings are very very bad for windy weather, frame mounted is more predictable turbulance)

Farings are a little bit of a double edged sword, good for cold weather and highways, but a pain when you need to do any maintainance (but then it also prevented it getting stolen in the past, because you really do have to have it off to get at any wireing) i'm actually trying to work out how to make a smaller faring to fix on the existing frame to swap between in summer/winter (the associated wireing is the trouble really)
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[Finglonga]

[Itchy]

[mr.z]

There actually quite nimble when your used to them (and very hard work when your not) but once the boxes are on its not worth bothering really, it rare i need to filter, if its busy out i just go later/go another route, its certainly not the best choice for niping between traffic i agree... i'd love a turbo, but wouldn't dream of useing it more than a few times a year (cpu's were £900 WHEN they sold them still) allot to go wrong on them (which sorta defys the point a bit)

Yep the lack of spares (especially euro only bits) is a real problem, now i find myself scrating for some quite silly stuff but more often subsituteing (like the zxr750 master cylinder), i have a spare engine but when its snuffed it that'll be it, as much as it pains me i dont think i'll revisit cxvill, i'm quite sure i'll be able to keep this one on the road for a few years yet.. (mines creeping up to 30k bit over 20 when i got it, low millage ones are VERY VERY VERY rare, i was extreemly lucky)

As far as bastard lovechildren.. allthough the VT replaced it afaik (and then the deuvalle) the closest liveing relative is probably the ST/Pan europeans, there on the maybe next list
Actually the euros have a rear disc (which is shite, the drum was far better thats progress eh)

[Motkram]

Now thats a horn: https://www.metacafe.com/watch/368266/loud_horn/
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