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Nobby the Bastard Harley Gaydar
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Honda CBF1000 Mk1
While I enjoyed this bike for the torque, the engine, the ease of carrying luggage and the comfort, it was plagued with issues on the electrical side of things.
In 47,000 miles, it ate the following -
4 Stators
2 Regulator rectifiers
2 Batteries
There is a well known issue with the stator on the mark one version of this bike. Honda did try a band-aid solution by stating that they'd replace a stator if it failed in the first 7 years of ownership, but they also did the usual thing that they do when anything becomes an issue with a particular bike and released another version.
Here is a picture of just one of the stators that decided to die on me -
https://i.postimg.cc/Xvwr5xbW/IMAG1047-zpsaeaebf11.jpg
I'm not sure if this is the particular stator that fried when I was in the right hand lane of the M4 when it cut out and I managed to sail to the hard shoulder, but I lost all faith after the fourth time it died and chopped it in for a Fazer 8.
It was reliable in every other way apart from that issue. I could live with a recurring issue that didn't render the bike unrideable, but every trip to and from work was met with "I wonder if it'll start" ____________________ Yamaha MT-09
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Honda 400 Superdream.
And there was me thinking the 400 might be a little better than the 250 ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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ER5... I assumed all bikes were fun to ride, how wrong I was |
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Can't say I hate any; there's plenty I wouldn't have, many I find fugly, but if it has two wheels and an engine it's all good. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5 |
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This one I bought before getting my YBR (I still have it). Cheap Chinese piece of shit won't even do 10 miles without having to get off and tighten all the bolts back up where everything rattles loose as it's such an unrefined boneshaker, rough as a bear's backside, it's a complete nightmare! Wouldn't recommend commuting or touring on it but good for pottering around the village and gets a lot of attention and is a crowd-pleasing head-turner to be fair. ____________________ Must Go Faster
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Bhud wrote: | Royal Enfield (any)
350: Woefully underpowered and prone to break under normal use and unreliable; gear selector on wrong side.
500: Underpowered and prone to break under normal use and unreliable.
Himalayan: Underpowered and prone to break under normal use and probably unreliable.
Other RE: probably the same.
I don't like them because I don't trust them, but am still drawn to them because of their looks. If they sold 500 Bullets/Classics with 50hp and Jap reliability I'd love to have one. |
That's a bit harsh, I loved my 350, oh, it's not the 350 that has the gear selector on the wrong side, it's all other bikes !! I blame the japs !! Also, if looked after, my 350 was very reliable, and, could climb any hill you pointed it at, just not very quickly !! Not sure I would go for the Himalayan on looks though, now, the new 650 Interceptor, that does look good, and felt right sitting on it the NEC, so, almost certainly going to take for a test ride once they arrive. ____________________ Beware what photos you upload, or link to on here, especially if you have family members on them |
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GS500E : How something so slow/under powered and under stressed could be so uneconomical and unreliable I'll never know.
Averaged about 35-45mpg varying depending on the phase of the moon I think (which also seemed to dictate intermittent oil use).
Poor build quality too (had to angle grind every single cheesey nut holding the rear sprocket).
Swapped it to a friends step dad, he had it for a lot longer, ended up changing the engine about 15k miles later after it inexplicably lost compression (apparently even a tear down yielded no obvious reasons why).
Just a plethora of negatives that bike (probably didn't help that I only got it for myself and the ex after selling my CBR 400 ). ____________________ Current: 02 FZS 1000 Some Bike Pics...
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For me it is/was the BSA Bantam.
It was an old field bike, a 175cc bag of nails with wobbly forks and absolutely no guts whatsoever.
To this day I wouldn’t put a Bantam in my garage . ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 101 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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