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pepperami wrote: | Pictures or it didn't happen! |
The even more over-weight, frame round the motor, to make working o it even harder, four spoke wheel... FOUR SPOKE.. that is just 'wrong'... Super-Dream? The one that sat on dealers floors un-sold for half a decade until they started giving them away?
In early 1988, one of the instructors turned up on one, having dropped his BMW in for service... we all thought it was the curtecy bike, until he admitted he'd had a test-ride on the then brand new 'Pan Euro, demonstrator and, decided to do a deal on one trading n the Bimer... which almost broke down when they told him the length of the waiting list for them on 'pre-order' as only the dealer demo bikes were actually in the country..... so they GAVE him the ruddy CB350 curtacy bike so he had wheels whilst he waited for the 'Pan! Lol!
I THINK that if some-one is daft enough or mad enough or misguided enough to actually admit to BUY one thirty years on, more suggest aspirations towards restoring it.... we can take their word... Some things, we REALLY don't need pictures of! Lol! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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I liked them for the looks, it's the Harris Magnum of the middleweight twin world!
I agree with jjdugen though, in that a re-built one with tweaked suspension and brakes, and wheels could be cool, if you also slot in a gas flowed high compression CB400T engine, maybe you can bore them out bigger too?
A 50bhp motor would make one work quite well with the right other mods to make it handle too.
I wouldn't even mind seeing a big capacity Yam LC motor in one too, but the LC brigade won't like that at all! |
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jjdugen wrote: | Bit cruel Teff. Stick the 400 motor in their and at least it will have the power it was designed for. Even you must admit that frame does look attractive. Any number of alternative wheels if you are super picky.
Reliable enough, handles no worse than any other of the spindly forked 80's things, if you can't find a ton of NOS parts for them I'll be very surprised. |
Negligible difference in power between the 400N, the 350 & the 450, would disincline me to bother TBH. Despite the Haris inspired frame, which I have to confess did look quite trick in 1988, it's a Twin-shock lardy-dream roundly derided for being even more lardy!
The odd four-spoke wheels, that do look rather like a pre-school childs drawing, asside, I actally thought they were quite a stylish middle-weight when I was 17; they just were a rather harder than usual to work on Super-Dream, that like most, had almost zero market value.. even in the dalers, where most that came into the country did end up curtecy bikes or despatch rentals and the like.
Given the current 'Nostalgia' value of 250 or 400N's, that have that more traditional styling, and were a memorable bike of thier era, i the 250 learner days, so do seem to command quite strong 'classic' prices if restored, the unloved 350, is probably one to avoid as any sort of project, as it was so ucommon, and parts wont be as easy to secure; they were harder to work on, ad most will have lead hard lives as unloved budget hacks for the last thirty odd years, and wont appeal to that same 'nostalgia' market or command a value anything like what renovating one is likely to cost.
Which is probably a pitty as they are 'interesting', and they probably weren't a 'bad' bike.. and certaily by contemprary stadards, I suspect that they aren't as lardy as lore suggests, it's just that the two smokes of that era were that much lighter and that much more spritely..
Compared to today's built down to a price emissions strangled lighter middle-weight offerings like say a CBR300 or even a CB500, I suspect one would likely offer quite good account of itself, on decent tyres and springs; and likely be a lot more interesting to ride as well as comfy!
Still doesn't make one an immediately attractive resto project though! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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there was a CB450S, same frame as the 350 with a 450 motor from the factory, as usual they imported the wrong version to us in the uk, where they gave us the 450DX which was from the same Brazilian factory they made those CG125BR's!
https://moto.zombdrive.com/images/honda-cb450s-1.jpg ____________________ Some people feel the rain, others just get wet. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 306 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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