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PostPosted: 21:32 - 18 Aug 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice work, I love those little Hondas, my frst bike was a CB125 RS.

I also recognised the Swift Danette in the background, I'll guess about 1983?

I'll get my coat......
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PostPosted: 23:36 - 19 Aug 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

The bike, was at this point ‘in commission’, so I didn’t want to take the bodywork it had on it off to paint it, and have it sat around in bits again. Instead, I rooted through the big ‘heap’ of ‘spares’ and found some deservant panels.

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These were actually painted silver and black, but half way through shaving revealed an original factory ‘red, white & blue’ livery, which looks like it might have been quite nice, once upon a time. But the panels were in quite a state and needed a fair bit of renovation, before they could be painted.

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Lugs had to be re-made, as before.

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And areas plastic welded up and filled.

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Which then had to be filed and sanded smooth, before painting.

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High build primer used to smooth the rebuild areas into the rest of the panel, before priming and painting.

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With the panel colour coated, it could then be masked to detail the inset in matt black as the originals.

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Then the inset sprayed.

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As seen before, giving that ‘factory’ look, and accentuating the line between side panel and tank, as original livery. Then Decals could be applied.

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PHEW! One Side panel done! Only one more, a tail cowling, mudguard and tank left to go!

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Snowie had started prepping a few tanks right at the beginning of ‘The Pup’ project, to see what the metal was like underneath. Of three tanks she took back to the metal, one was completely scrap, it was badly dented and had been full of very bad filler, And when all that was removed, was pin holed. So she chose one of the ‘good’ tanks, and when I came to poke about for one to prep, was left with the other!

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After stripping and being given a holding coat of primer, it was skimmed with filler, where there were some minor dings.

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Then built up and blended with high-build, and primered to take paint.

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Painted, it was ready to take decals.

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Same process was used for the Side panel’s and tail cowling; but first step was to ‘wet’ the tank down, and peel the Dacal off the backing paper.

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Then the decal was applied to the tank, lined up, and squeegeed down, to remove air bubbles and creases.

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Then the support film could be lifted away to leave the stripes on the paint work, and the Honda logo and wings applied in the same way.

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Repeated both sides, the tank could be finished with petrol proof laquer to provide the clear coat and laquer over and protect the decals.

Snowie gives the entire process a more extensive write up in ‘The Pup-Project’, if you are interested.

SO, onto the tail cowl.

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As all of them, starting point was to ‘make good’ with some plastic welding, building up the attachment lugs it bolts to the tail railing by.

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Lots of careful work with the soldering iron and scrap plastic.

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After shaving and sanding, as the side panels, needed a little work around one of the grab rail mounting bolt holes to build up the edge where it had fretted on the bolt, and a few skuffs.

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Like the side panel, filed and sanded before smoothing with high build, and priming and painting

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Onto the mudguard

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As side panels and tail, first shaved and sanded. This didn’t need any attension with the soldering iron, so could be primered and painted straight off.

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WHICH, put together, brings us to where I had HOPED the project would finish…

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ALL the nicely painted and decaled bodywork fitted up to the bike!

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Anyway, as I was putting the bodywork on, ‘phone rang. Nigel from Hinkley Rider Training, who I’d been trying to get hold of for a fortnight to book Snowie’s CBT and Rider Training…..

Unhappy I was insisting she went ahead with it; I took her over on the freshly painted bike, to meet the instructors and pay the money.

Took some pics of it, uncluttered by the paraphernalia of my back yard, while I was about it!

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And Thus ‘threatened’ Snowie, started getting a shuffle on, trying to get ‘The Pup’ finished, so she DIDN’T have to ride it!
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PostPosted: 23:54 - 19 Aug 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

philoldsmobile wrote:
Nice work, I love those little Hondas, my frst bike was a CB125 RS.

I also recognised the Swift Danette in the background, I'll guess about 1983?

I'll get my coat......


Caravan, is indeed a Swift Danette. Makes a good shed! As for how old it is, your guess is probably better than mine.

I bought it, whilst still married, when the now ex was nagging me incessantly we 'needed' a new caravan, after she had bought some old wreck, for, well she SAID, when she told me I had to go tow it home, I had to give the bloke £250.... which she conveniently couldn't get out the bank.... and after a week away awning had nie on ripped the side out.....

After three months being dragged round every caraven yard in the county, and the two neighbouring ones, AND to every small add she found in the local papers....

We had gone from £250 'wrecks' I REFUSED to 'fix up', having more than enough DIY handed to be before adding even more..... right up to near new maga-pikey-palaces, and HP agreements with payements bigger than my frigging mortgage!

That Danette had been one we had looked at early on at most local caravan-yard, and had ticked all her boxes of 'essentials'... the only grumble she could make being 'well, its OLD, and its GREEN, and its MANKY!"....

But, after she had tried stretching the idea ONE step too far..... I took her back to it, and told her we had £1000, cash to spend; grabbed the salesman, made it quite clear I would NOT pay one peny MORE than a grand, and expected something fully serviced and commissioned, ready to 'tow away and sleep in', with awning, spare tyre, gas, EVERYTHING 'ready to go'..... she gave in.... and the nice sales lady in the accessory shop went round putting all the nice pretty plates and stuff she was fishing off the shelves back, and substitiuting the toilet chemicals and 'stuff' for the 'smart price' alternatives..... eventually a deal was 'struck' and one rather frustrated now ex wife got what she 'said' she wanted, but didn't really want at all! And kids got a family holiday each year for the next two years, they other wise wouldn't... I got a decent bed to collapse into when I went two day trialing, rather than a lumpy sleeping mat, AND bonus of a beer-cooler!

Then after she left, served three more holidays with my kids on the weeks I got them, and served usefully as a shed between times!

Damned good grand that one!

Good caravan, too. Towed beautifully, well laid out, nicely appointed, and pretty sturdy too... BUT three summers ago, bunk bed pulled out the wall when my daughter set it up, and cupboards had that 'musty' smell, the timber frame finally starting to rot out at the bottom..... so it's been a shed ever since!
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 20 Aug 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Right, THAT was supposed to be the ‘end’ or the renovation. Job done, looking GoooooooooD….

Spurred Snowie on to get The-Pup, finished and get on with her CBT & Training, which it did, or put some wheels under her bum, if she didn’t. Meanwhile I had a bike I could tootle about on, pop to the shops that kind of thing, and whilst Snowie was doing her rider training and bike tests, we had a ‘spare’ bike she could use, IF de-bugging hers in early miles, we found ‘niggled’ to be sorted, or that I could potter out on with her on practice rides.

Meanwhile, I could lam into the NEXT ‘Super-Dream’ project, which promiced to be a pretty simple one; top end rebuild and general scrub up, I didn’t expect to take many weeks, and when that one was ‘done’, giving me a ‘rider’ to replace it, The Corporal could be found a new home.

Saturday 4th June…..

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Snowie had finished ‘The-Pup’, and seen it through MOT with flying colours, and did her CBT, putting her back on the road, and all ready to put ‘the plan’ into action, doing her weekly lessons, and spendinding a couple of hors a day, out on the road practicing, with me, on ‘The Corporal’ for a fair bit of it, giving her help and encouragement.

Sunday 5th June…….. All ‘legit’ Snowie wanted to ride to Shhhhhhh! We can’t mention the name of the city! ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Piggot… 9 letters; Christain name of famouse Jokey. They make Walkers Crisps there, and De-Montfort University)

The reason for this is, its Snowie’s ‘Home’ town, and where co-incidentally I bought the Corporal from, and it APPEARS that the little bike has some kind of post-traumatic stress disorder, from all it suffered there, because EVERY TIME it was ridden there….. hit Earl Shilton, just outside, and it would start ‘playing up’!

When First commissioned, just before Christmas; Snowie tried riding to…..Shhhhhhh, three times, to visit family. Each time, I had to go recover her and the bike with the car, for ‘curiouse’ little faults; fuel starvation; electrical gremlins; funny noises, WHICH once back in Warwickshire, curiously didn’t manifest themselves!
ANYWAY, at this point we hadn’t really twigged that there was some kind of ‘Bermuda Triangle Effect’ around ‘Shhhhhhh’. So, all nicely painted, looking like a pair of book-ends, we set off to go ‘visit’.

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THIS happened!

Bike was going great; really perky and responsive, pulling well, making nice noises and no nasty ones, and we’d dropped in on Snowie’s mum, and were trundling across town to visit one of her friends, when it started clattering!

Pulling up outside after riding the last mile nice and gently, I had a poke, and the cam chain adjuster bolt seemed a bit loose, like it had slackened off…. So we went in, had a cup of coffee, and let the bike cool off.

Ready to leave; 10mm spanner and a pair of pliers, I gave the adjuster a ‘tweek’ but was bemused it didn’t seem to want to take tension…. So adjusted it up as much as it would go, and started it up…. Little clattery, but thought ‘fair enough’ I’ll take it gently, trundle alonmg behind Snowie, sort it when we get home…..’

30 yards up the road, bike LOCKED…. Old two stroke instincts kicked in, and I hauled in the clutch in double time, but that was IT.

Coasted back down the hill to where I had started, chucked bike in blokes back garden, with lots of chains round it; 2-upped home with Snowie on the-Pup, came back and fetched it from Le…. SHHHHHH on the back of the car for a FORTH time!

“What’s wrong?” Snowie kept asking…..
“Its Donalded!” I told her… confusing her by NOT waving spanners anywhere NEAR ‘The-Corporal’ but instead lamming in to ‘Five Alive’, the silver bike that had come as a ‘donor’ supposedly completely ‘dead’ but which had kept tugging at my overalls and showing ‘promice’, which I’d promised IF I got the other three bikes ‘done’ and sold, I would ‘do’ as a ‘keeper’, hence was supposed to be the very LAST bike in the stack, I waved a spanner at…..
“Why you messing with ‘Five Alive’, then?” She asked….
“BECOUSE…. My dear….. This one…. works!”
Which probably didn’t enlighten her very much, BUT; The-Corporal, nicely renovated, all pretty in new cloths, taxed, tested and insured, was ‘dead’…. And the ONLY reason for keeping it, was to use.
Five alive was utterly useless, as it stood, with a lot of untended theft and crash damage, and an awful lot of renovation work ahead of it to even get it CLOSE to an MOT.
BUT, it was ALIVE…. Hence the name!
Pronounced ‘dead’ before I even got it, seller had said it was a stolen recovered, bought for ‘bits’, that was a Cat ‘write off’ that couldn’t be put back on the road, and when we stuck a battery on it, turned over, but refused to show ANY signs of life.
BUT, first the log book arrived through the post, denying it was a total write off that couldn’t be returned to road, implying ALL it actually needed was to gain an MOT.
THEN, While Snowie was playing with petrol tanks, I had been checking batteries, and AS Five-Alive was closest to the door, using it to check them on….. she had swapped the petrol tank from her bike onto it, and left the pipe disconnected, so spotting that, bent down and connected it to the carbs, ‘just ion case’ some-one turns the tap on, you know…. And lacking any instrument lights hit the starter button to test the battery I had just charged…… WHICH stimulated some minor rumblings… and with a little twiddling on the choke mechanism ENGINE NOISES!

So, one taxed, tested, insured bike, with extinct engine, I was back to square one. It was just more prettily painted scrap than when I had begun!

And without a big pile of ‘ready spares’ conveniently containing a working engine… I had to conjure one from some-where else, and Five-Alive was STILL sat perilously at the front of the stack, it’s engine looking incredibly ‘perloinable’…. So I purloined it!

And within a couple of hours, had removed it from Five-Alive’s frame and installed it in ‘the Corporal’! More, it even ‘worked’… didn’t feel as ‘crisp’ as the engine that had just gone CLUNK… but at least it worked!

So I followed Snowie half way to road training, at which point it started playing up, so brought it back home, and started twiddling. Changed the oil, adjusted the tappets and cam-chain tensioner, fiddled with carburettor settings, that sort of stuff, and got it running ‘not too bad’.

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Thus ‘fettled’ and back in commission, we were back on ‘track’…ish….. with two bikes. Snowie’s Pup, for her to do her road training, practice and tests on; the Corporal for me to tootle about on, follow her around on some practice rides, like in the picture taken in ASDA car-park, practicing some Mod 1 manoeuvres, and to act as ‘back-up’ should anything go ‘wrong’ with the pup.

MEANWHILE:-
Before the cam-chain ‘went’; I had started on ‘The Black-One’, which was a fairly tidy little example of the breed, the TD-E, we’d used to get the decal patterns off, but which had been aquired, like the Corporal, taxed & tested, but with a ’dead’ engine, and a mechanic’s report announcing ‘low compression’. At the time, it had seemed like a ‘quick fix’, to give Snowie a ‘rider’ while she was doing ‘the Pup’, but had wound up ‘back-burnered’. So, I had hauled out its engine, and after experience of the Corporal’s motor, thought a top end rebuild ‘ought’ to sort it out.
This was sitting on the work-bench, half stripped, when the Corporal’s engine ‘went’…. So I was in no real hurry to start trying to pull the corporals engine to bits, and have them ALL open to the elements, getting bits mixed up between them!

So I carried on, as planned, and rebuilt it, first…… though for economies of scale, I DID actually have a bit of a poke and a prod at both the Corporal’s ORIGINAL engine, and the one the cam-chain went on, and took the two most useable cylinder heads down my local machine shop to see if they could regrind valve seats.

However, didn’t start to look at the Corporal’s engine in earnest until I had the Black-One’s back in one piece and showing good compression, ready to go back into it’s frame.

There’s yet another saga there…… but we’ll come back to that!

So; time to look at the Corporal’s engine, or precisely, engineS. It now had TWO.

The one that I had taken out of it right at the beginning, reported as ‘siezed’, but which freed off and sounded like a bag of spanners; and the one from ‘the heap’ I had put in in it’s place, which had then got a top end rebuild and new barrels, when it proved not so great as first suggestion, but which had now snapped it’s cam chain.

Between the TWO, idea was ought to be possible to make ONE good engine from them, BUT did mean a complete engine tear down, or two and one complete rebuild was needed. So I got busy twiddling spanners!

Meanwhile, BACK to that engine from ‘the Black-One’! All nicely rebuilt, ready to go in the frame.

Snowie had come back from Road Training, told she was ready for Mod 1, and it was booked for a week on Wednesday. All good stuff.

Did lots of practice riding that week; during which, the starter motor on the Corporal started making increasingly nasty noises from the starter motor, until it finally packed up, and I had to bump start it….. another job added to the list, swap a starter!

Following Monday…. I was faffing about stripping these two engine’s…. and I sent Snowie off to Road training for some last minute Mod 1 practice….. She returned, a little earlier than usual, about quarter to nine…… the ‘Pup’ billowing big clouds of black smoke….. with Mod 1 two days later, this did NOT bode well!

I rushed her back to Hinkley in the car, and had a chat with Nigel. “Well she has a spare bike, doesn’t she?” he said. I explained the ‘problem’ with the starter motor. “Typical, innit!” he said. But the conclusion was, we borrowed a School Suzuki EN125, which she had three quarters of an hour practice on, and brought back to spend a bit of time getting used to, before her Mod 1 first thing Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, because she really wanted to use HER bike for tests…… SHE STOLE the engine for ‘the Black One’…… Then set about taking the rest of the bike to bits and HIDING the frame, and tank and other ‘bits’ around the shed and caravan, so I wouldn’t notice!

But she took the Suzuki to her first Mod 1, and in fit of nerves, panicked on the e-stop, locked the front wheel and dumped it! So it served to save ‘the-Pup’ some scratched panels, but otherwise was a bit of a set back.

When she got home, though, both ‘the-Pup’ and the Corporal back in commission, we got on the DSA web-site and booked the next available Mod 1 slot for her, the following Monday.

NOW…. I better point out that the test centre most local to us, is in Lei… SHHHHHHHH! Sort THAT town!

Monday came around, and for confidence she asked me to trundle along after her to the test centre.

The Corporal was going great, until we got to Earl Shilton, and entered that Bermuda Triangle effect… and the ruddy immobiliser randomly decided to start switching ‘on’ as I was riding, the talking alarm, announcing ‘welcome to the Cyclone C11 Alarm System’ WTF! I pulled the alarm plugs and carried on!

Which got me as far as the notorious ‘Pork Pie’ island on the ring road… in the middle of RUSH HOUR…. Where it just ‘Died’!

I got off, smiled at irate commuters and calmly (at least outwardly!) pushed the bike to the side of the road, and on to the pavement….. where it fucking started!

So I started to ride on… Snowie by this point LONG GONE!... for 100 yards where it did it again!

Stuff it. I parked up, pulled my hat off, had a fag, and HOPED Snowie would be OK on test, and would find me on her way back.

She failed, again…. Not going fast enough through the traps; but didn’t fall off this time, and found me sat at the road side, wondering what to do.

I was, NOT happy, and the bike wasn’t playing ball or wanting to run, and with battery threatening to go flat on me, I wasn’t keen to push the point to having to bump start it again.

So, I suggested abandoning it outside the school, 2-upping home on the Pup, and coming back later for it with the car.

Snowie wasn’t so sure; we didn’t have security chains or even a disc lock, so it would mean relying on the steering lock, and the cantankerouse alarm, and whatever juice was left in the batter to secure it, and she reckoned that South Wigston is ‘not a very nice area’ and it was likely to get nicked.

“Its Insured!” I said… “Would be a blessing if it was!” Pushing the alarm plug back in and making ready to leave it on the street corner…….

Bike HEARD ME…. And at THAT thread, started up!

Snowie, suggested we try riding home, or at least to her Mum’s where it would be safer, so grudgingly, I saddled up.

Bike STILL kept giving grief, and refused to run cleanly; was blowing lots of smoke out of its exhaust, and gave an ALMIGH?TY back fire at a set of traffic lights RIGHJT as a pair of police woman crossed the road in front of me, and I was revving the nuts off the thing trying to keep it alive! They just looked, laughed, shrugged and walked on!

BUT, yup, further out of ‘Shhhhh’ we got, happier the bike ran!

And, by the time we reached Earl Shilton, was almost behaving itself!

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

Bermuda Triangle effect!

So! Full speed ahead with the engine rebuild, and ideas floating around in my head, that BASICALLY this bike was NOT going to plan, a bike that would NOT work in ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ was no good for training along test routes that would almost certainly be in and around the ‘shhhhhhh’ city Test centre, right in that triangle of doom!

So, I decided, that once rebuilt, and running, best plan was to sell on. Our Smiler, having been offered first refusal on it, having been intrigued by pics on here! Which would take the bike WELL away from the Bermuda triangle, and let me try and get on and sort ‘The Black-One’…. IF I could wrestle that engine back of Snowie, AND find where she had stashed all the ‘bits’!
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PostPosted: 01:26 - 23 Aug 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

seriously! the luck you have with them pair! (the pup and corporal)
Laughing strangely i had the same idea with the straws for instrument needles, in the end i cut the ends off cable ties, very interesting about the candy paint on the earlier cb's! after speaking to a nice fella up the road from me (ran the cb outta petrol Rolling Eyes but he had a drop to get me back Smile ) anyway he mentioned the colour of mine being the wrong red to what he remembers as mine now has the later cb 'deluxe' panels, cheap looking did you say? Laughing
i am very much looking forward to seeing the engine rebuild when you post it Very Happy
i have another cb arriving wednesday, its been stood for 11 years. its an 89 model in black. im not keen on the 3 spoke alloys though.
i also saw a cb125 on ebay recently for the second time which didnt sell again. supposedly the mileage is just under 1,900 miles from new and the bike looks great but it is yet to reach over the £600 mark!(yet currently a 2004 superdream copy is up to over £500) i keep wanting to make an offer but originally he wanted £1599... you probably noticed the bike didnt you Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:37 - 24 Apr 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mega thread revival I know, but it's relevant so meh.

"Pork pie roundabout" is about 5 minutes walk from me, and the school in south wigs is about the same again from where I work Laughing

If you broke down in rush hour, there is a fair chance that I'd have passed you on that day! If I'd have known, you would have been welcome to put it in the garden rather than leaving it in south wigs.

Small world innit! Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 12:19 - 26 Apr 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Noxious89123 wrote:
Mega thread revival I know, but it's relevant so meh.

"Pork pie roundabout" is about 5 minutes walk from me, and the school in south wigs is about the same again from where I work Laughing

If you broke down in rush hour, there is a fair chance that I'd have passed you on that day! If I'd have known, you would have been welcome to put it in the garden rather than leaving it in south wigs.

Small world innit! Rolling Eyes


it was all right left it with my friend,as i lived in Braunstone until 2011
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