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PostPosted: 21:30 - 12 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
I seem to recall Ariel/BSA's idea was to appeal to the ladies

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PostPosted: 15:16 - 23 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115530026238



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PostPosted: 16:57 - 23 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Exquisite - a real labour of love
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PostPosted: 12:10 - 26 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115530026238



https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/D80AAOSw3LNjJhn0/s-l1600.jpg


borderline 'Majestic' surely!
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PostPosted: 12:28 - 26 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Stream and other oddities like that are used as delivery vehicles across metropolitan Japan, the counterweighted platforms they mount on the back to allow them to carry soups/soba dishes without spilling them are truly amazing, they might look odd here but they actually make sense in their own environment.
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PostPosted: 12:39 - 26 Sep 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tarmacsurfer wrote:
The Stream and other oddities like that are used as delivery vehicles across metropolitan Japan, the counterweighted platforms they mount on the back to allow them to carry soups/soba dishes without spilling them are truly amazing, they might look odd here but they actually make sense in their own environment.


I am a massive weeb, I actually watched this video a couple months ago on the whole Japanese food delivery thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8sc5qmiDQ
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PostPosted: 23:08 - 07 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125545936252

Mate, leave the security off and wait for it to get nicked - a better result all round I think you'll agree.
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PostPosted: 00:45 - 08 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125545936252

Mate, leave the security off and wait for it to get nicked - a better result all round I think you'll agree.


The MOT history suggests he would rather spend dosh on 'improvements'
than getting a bike into good working condition.
Silly little mirrors will give a good view of your wrists

No front mudguard cos it dont not never rain in Bristol do it?

what a lot of old wank

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PostPosted: 10:55 - 08 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
By removing the mudguard and fitting tiny mirrors and indicators, it really draws your eye to how shit and weedy a divvy looks.
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PostPosted: 11:58 - 08 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
The mirrors are actually bar-end ones adapted to fit the old mount holes.
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PostPosted: 10:54 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
I hate you with every sinew of my world-weary body..

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PostPosted: 11:05 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:
I hate you with every sinew of my world-weary body..

https://www.carandclassic.com/make-an-offer/1991-honda-cd250-nJKKJ4


Knobbly tyres, no mudguards, fake piggyback shocks, unnecessary heat wrap on a stock exhaust pipe, cheap chinese indicators and grips, crap paintjob and a nasty 'colour coded' quilted seat? Whats not to love?

Oh yeah, all of it, its a fucking CD250, its worth £1 per CC at most.
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PostPosted: 11:49 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Highlights

Considerably rare in today’s market
Recently restored by the current keeper
Excellent condition
Performs brilliantly


Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 17:52 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:
Highlights

Considerably rare in today’s market
Recently restored by the current keeper
Excellent condition
Performs brilliantly


Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes


Rare; Because nobody wanted them when they were new either.
Recently restored; but not had any real testing miles in on it apart from a cursory MOT that it was probably trailered to.
Excellent condition; apart from the back garden rattle can paintjob on the tank and the cracked side panels.
Performs brilliantly; If your only riding experience is a BMX.
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PostPosted: 21:53 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://trix.carandclassic.com/trix/JTid5UFGsz6hYvHhv4lsTzTSRqHTbQe1ZgCPcyLx.jpg

"This CD250 has been rebuilt with a host of new parts, and now yearns to be enjoyed out on the open road"

Yeah sure.
As long as it ain't fucking raining

pass the sick bag...
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 14 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
virus wrote:

Rare; Because nobody wanted them when they were new either.
Recently restored; but not had any real testing miles in on it apart from a cursory MOT that it was probably trailered to.
Excellent condition; apart from the back garden rattle can paintjob on the tank and the cracked side panels.
Performs brilliantly; If your only riding experience is a BMX.


Nah - not for those reasons. It's shit because it's just shit. It's a naff "cafe racer" that's been hacked about. "Recently restored" is completely wrong though. That's a bike in need of restoration. As an amateur myself, I'd happily rattle can anything in my back garden and end up with worse results than that. But the paint job is the least of that thing's faults.
What I see is what I see. But underneath those side panels there could be a fire hazard, dangerous wiring, dodgy welds holding on tabs that will definitely fail within a couple of hundred miles, etc. Plus the rear subframe has probably been cut off right through the reinforcing gusset thing, making it weaker where the top of the shock mounts are. Those guys all do the same things the same way. It's what you don't see...
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PostPosted: 13:29 - 15 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can get it right if you properly lean into the rat bike look: "Steal it?! I don't even want to touch it!" But most of the bikes on this thread scream one universal thing: pretentious.

For example I saw a Harley at Newlands Corner one time. All the plastics and flat surfaces were painted white and all the hoses and pipes were replaced with copper (except were they had to use brass.) Overall it was the "I can see what you were going with but was it worth it?" look Sad
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PostPosted: 16:55 - 16 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another highly polished turd.
At around 50bhp its hardly a sports bike
Tourer? ha ha ha! yeah right, tourer.
cheap hack? not hardly, not for 9 grand it aint

The mutilated and compromised rear end makes it of questionable long term safety.
( IMO not fit for purpose)
All the gadgets don't really offer any significant improvements
although I'll allow beefier front forks on a CX is OK

So what it good for ?
Posing is all that comes to mind
Its a monument to vapid, superficial stupidity and how to waste money then encourage/trick others to do the same

If you look the seller other listings they're asking £100,000 for
a pair of numberplates FFS !!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185614593874?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5hMAAOSwOE5itvJL/s-l1600.jpg
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PostPosted: 20:17 - 16 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
Another highly polished turd.
At around 50bhp its hardly a sports bike
Tourer? ha ha ha! yeah right, tourer.
cheap hack? not hardly, not for 9 grand it aint

The mutilated and compromised rear end makes it of questionable long term safety.
( IMO not fit for purpose)
All the gadgets don't really offer any significant improvements
although I'll allow beefier front forks on a CX is OK

So what it good for ?
Posing is all that comes to mind
Its a monument to vapid, superficial stupidity and how to waste money then encourage/trick others to do the same

If you look the seller other listings they're asking £100,000 for
a pair of numberplates FFS !!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185614593874?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5hMAAOSwOE5itvJL/s-l1600.jpg


Redoing the front-end must've taken some effort and yet they've gone with a 15 dollar seat Thinking
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PostPosted: 23:21 - 16 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bhud wrote:
virus wrote:

Rare; Because nobody wanted them when they were new either.
Recently restored; but not had any real testing miles in on it apart from a cursory MOT that it was probably trailered to.
Excellent condition; apart from the back garden rattle can paintjob on the tank and the cracked side panels.
Performs brilliantly; If your only riding experience is a BMX.


Nah - not for those reasons. It's shit because it's just shit. It's a naff "cafe racer" that's been hacked about. "Recently restored" is completely wrong though. That's a bike in need of restoration. As an amateur myself, I'd happily rattle can anything in my back garden and end up with worse results than that. But the paint job is the least of that thing's faults.
What I see is what I see. But underneath those side panels there could be a fire hazard, dangerous wiring, dodgy welds holding on tabs that will definitely fail within a couple of hundred miles, etc. Plus the rear subframe has probably been cut off right through the reinforcing gusset thing, making it weaker where the top of the shock mounts are. Those guys all do the same things the same way. It's what you don't see...


..and, can amyone tell me what this piece of shittery is supposed to do?
https://assets.carandclassic.com/listing-assets/honda/cd250/1991-honda-cd250-10229924157-nJKKJ4/swBO75QkZTLeUunQo7kfHNJasOEC0ndiqtFqPNnp.jpg?auto=compress&ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=55282738a9fc76be5a01e3eba41452cf
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PostPosted: 01:12 - 17 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:


..and, can amyone tell me what this piece of shittery is supposed to do?
https://assets.carandclassic.com/listing-assets/honda/cd250/1991-honda-cd250-10229924157-nJKKJ4/swBO75QkZTLeUunQo7kfHNJasOEC0ndiqtFqPNnp.jpg?auto=compress&ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=55282738a9fc76be5a01e3eba41452cf


There would have been a plaque there saying "Honda". It appears to have been replaced by something else. There's no problem, in concept, with doing this, except that the way it's been done here may interfere with the full compression of the forks, i.e. it will hit the mudguard (or in this case, the wheel). Making it highly polished and finely painted and done by a trained-up metalworker or time-served apprentice wouldn't change what it is, fundamentally. The original plaque itself didn't do anything, and this doesn't do anything. Have you seen many custom bikes? A lot of features don't do anything. It's obviously done for looks

I may copy something like it (above and below headlight surround) on my newest project bike (well I call it a "bike" but at the moment it's just a frame). Point being, there are 2 threaded and tapped holes for screws there. That's better than welding stuff just because you can.
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PostPosted: 02:12 - 17 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
Another highly polished turd.


It isn't to my taste, but you have to remember that there was once a world where people still had hobbies, and a VW Bug sat on the driveway, with roll cage, lifted suspension and crash bars front and back, as if ready to hit the sand dunes of California. In suburban Sussex... Plus the odd Reliant Scimitar with home-made body kit made from automotive filler and chicken wire, and a massive spoiler to rival a Countach. Amazing, right?

I've seen worse than that CX500. Fact is, that will appeal to (I guess) 90% of today's motorbike riders, in and around London, and despite the money that's been poured in, it's a disposable folly. Time marches on and things change. You have to admit the front end swap is good.
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PostPosted: 08:05 - 17 Oct 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bhud wrote:
Fact is, that will appeal to (I guess) 90% of today's motorbike riders, in and around London...


I must hang out in the wrong places Thinking I rarely see any of these atrocities in and around London but admittedly I haven't been over to Shoreditch in a while.
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I haven't been there in a while either. But that would definitely be widely admired if posted to Reddit. Commuters and delivery boys are sort of invisible. Money and time went into that, and it was done by an enthusiast, evenif a naive and easily influence one. Often, I think custom builds are a reaction against the drudgery of the everyday. The rear shock mounts might be dangerous and obviously, the maker doesn't want to ride it as it was probably all a bad guess. But it may have served its purpose.
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The only purpose it servced was to make standard, eminently ridable, versions ever rarer. So, thus it was a stupid idea from start to end.
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