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borderline 'Majestic' surely! ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600 |
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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. ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
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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. ____________________ 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. |
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Highlights
Considerably rare in today’s market
Recently restored by the current keeper
Excellent condition
Performs brilliantly
____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k |
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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 ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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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 ____________________ bikers smell of wee |
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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 ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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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 ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
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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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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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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 192 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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