The General Motorbikers Discussion Thread - Page 95

Spectre · June 23rd, 2009, 8:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shad_68

Thanks again Spectre.

I think I'll just leave it as is for now then. I might look into fixing/replacing that stuff some time in the future, but for now I feel I've already spent enough money on it. /el cheapo

You know, the more I look at that seat, the less those look like scratches and the more they look like hard water stains.

Try a good vinyl cleaner.

hansvonaxion · June 23rd, 2009, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spectre

Nobody has invented a reliable automatic mechanical choke and electric chokes require more power than it takes to run the entire rest of the bike (sans light).

My old Gemini (Opel Kadette?) had a choke that not many people knew about. Fully depress the accelerator before starting to engage it and tap the accelerator when at idle to disengage. Would that be considered an automatic, mechanical choke? It was pretty reliable considering the age of the car.

Spectre · June 24th, 2009, 12:41 AM

Usually those were an electric choke.

KaJuN · June 24th, 2009, 3:59 AM

As you can see by my now slimmer car info on the left I'm no longer the owner of a motorbike.

As part of my preparations for leaving the country I gave it back to my uncle who I got it from a few years ago. It was tough letting it go but I would have had to leave it here anyway and it's time to move on from a starter bike to something maybe a bit more powerful. There were great times and times when I wanted to run over it with my Land Rover but good old Maxine will always hold a special place in my heart.

In the spirit of moving on I'm going to make every effort to get a new scoot once I get to Okinawa.

hansvonaxion · June 24th, 2009, 5:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spectre

Usually those were an electric choke.

Gotcha. I had the impression that an electric choke required no input from the driver (like on newer cars, it just does it's thing) and the fact that it was connected to the accelerator made it seem mechanical.

But in Australia you don't usually have much use for a choke.

ABS, radio, heater, reverse gear, heated grips, GPS etc but no automatic choke.

Spectre · June 24th, 2009, 6:07 AM

You could do an electric choke both ways - fully automatic or the driver had to invoke it by tapping the gas pedal.

It could have also been purely mechanical with a bimetallic strip or a vacuum choke, but that doesn't work out so well with bikes. Those usually only work if you have a single venturi or housing.

hansvonaxion · June 24th, 2009, 7:46 AM

After a quick search, it appears to be electric...

Fuel System: Two barrel downdraft mounted on four-branch water heated aluminium intake manifold, electrically controlled automatic choke

Spectre · June 24th, 2009, 7:51 AM

Not surprised. The number of cars with an automatic mechanical choke is tiny... mostly because they usually didn't work.

BlaRo · June 24th, 2009, 4:08 PM

Hey guys, I'm so cool I want to pay FIFTY-SIX DOLLARS for a Ducati t-shirt.

Granted, it IS a pretty cool shirt...

...can I just steal one instead?

shad_68 · June 27th, 2009, 7:21 PM

Love the paintjob!

47 · June 27th, 2009, 9:35 PM

uuu, preeety!

Just got home, and as much as it's an inconvenience that my gf lives 20 miles away, the road is nice and it's a joy if I'm on the bike

Got to wash it soon, drove home in the rain yesterday...

Jon · June 28th, 2009, 1:35 AM

675 is such a gorgeous bike..

argatoga · June 28th, 2009, 2:05 AM

Well I've ordered my gear and will be looking at a bike tomorrow. Wish me luck! If all goes well I will be a potential organ donor in just over a week.

freeferrarisdonotexist · June 28th, 2009, 4:35 AM

Starter bike (125cc to 300cc or so) or something bigger? I would recomend some version of the Honda CB125 for a starter, easy to ride, simple, not desperately fast but not dangerously slow. Also cheap and easy to work on. Downside is plenty of people ride them so you'll be one of the crowd- but you could give it a custom paintjob. Rattlecan a-ok, hard to rice a CB!

Spectre · June 28th, 2009, 4:46 AM

The problem with a CB125 (though I started off with one) is that you cannot ride them on the freeways. Not because of legal restrictions but because they're too slow. Honda ended CB125 sales in the US in the 80s.

No, I've been pointing him at the CB400/450 line (the one that descended from the CM185/200 Twinstar). They have enough power to get on the highway, but there's no weight difference over the debored CB/CM/Rebel/Nighthawk 250 cousins in terms of the engine, and it's just as forgiving and friendly as the 250s (which it should be, because it's the same engine only with bigger cylinders and pistons.) They're all but indestructible and Honda sold a billion of the bloody things before killing off their last US 450 twin in the late 90s. Please note that the UK 400-500cc Honda range bears little to no resemblance to the old US one.

argatoga · June 28th, 2009, 5:14 AM

I have been consulting with Spectre over PM. I haven't posted anything so as to avoid someone from snipping the bikes away from me.

shad_68 · June 28th, 2009, 9:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

675 is such a gorgeous bike..

I saw one at the dealer yesterday, in that livery - couldn't stop oggling it before they rolled it in again (was just before they closed for the evening)... but then again, the same goes for the Speed Triple and Bonneville they had standing there too

Oh, and occasionally at uni there's a Daytona parked too, black with gold accents...

Jon · June 28th, 2009, 6:13 PM

Let's face it.. Triumph have been making some pretty bastard gorgeous bikes ..

Speed Triple in white.. Ohhhhh my..

MAY have a trouser accident.

Karoug · June 28th, 2009, 6:17 PM

^That is a pretty bike, but it sure does look chocked...

argatoga · June 28th, 2009, 8:30 PM

I'm now the owner of a Honda CB400t! I'm on the ferry at the moment so it'll be a bit before I have a thread up.

June 24th, 2009, 12:41 AM	#1883
Spectre Joined: Feb 1st, 2007 Last Online: 9:12 AM Location: Dallas, Texas Age: 32 Posts: 8,359 Car: 87 XJ6, 95 XJR, 90 WD21, 86 CB700SC, 98 PC800 Rep Power: 191	Usually those were an electric choke. __________________ Enough is enough. We are not here to subsidize your clueless business plans or reward your failures. 1986 Honda Nighthawk 700S (project, light restoration in progress) 1987 Jaguar XJ6 Series III Vanden Plas (modified) 1990 Nissan (WD21) Pathfinder SE 4x4 (little red offroad commuter box) 1995 Jaguar (X300) XJR 1998 Honda Pacific Coast PC800 (two-wheeled pickup truck/utility bike)

June 24th, 2009, 3:59 AM	#1884
KaJuN Disco Inferno Joined: Jul 31st, 2006 Last Online: 7:46 AM Location: American in Okinawa Age: 23 Posts: 5,069 Car: Suzuki Swift, Honda Benly CL50 Rep Power: 176	As you can see by my now slimmer car info on the left I'm no longer the owner of a motorbike. As part of my preparations for leaving the country I gave it back to my uncle who I got it from a few years ago. It was tough letting it go but I would have had to leave it here anyway and it's time to move on from a starter bike to something maybe a bit more powerful. There were great times and times when I wanted to run over it with my Land Rover but good old Maxine will always hold a special place in my heart. In the spirit of moving on I'm going to make every effort to get a new scoot once I get to Okinawa. __________________ ...and Michigan still sucks. D-Fence: Kajun is just outside caressing his Discovery....touching it gently, you know......it is such a dirty bitch.....but he seems to love dirty girls in high heels who are taller then him and have "quite a few pounds" on their hips ^^ This post was accidentally unearthed from a shallow grave by construction workers. My Flickr

June 24th, 2009, 6:07 AM	#1886
Spectre Joined: Feb 1st, 2007 Last Online: 9:12 AM Location: Dallas, Texas Age: 32 Posts: 8,359 Car: 87 XJ6, 95 XJR, 90 WD21, 86 CB700SC, 98 PC800 Rep Power: 191	You could do an electric choke both ways - fully automatic or the driver had to invoke it by tapping the gas pedal. It could have also been purely mechanical with a bimetallic strip or a vacuum choke, but that doesn't work out so well with bikes. Those usually only work if you have a single venturi or housing. __________________ Enough is enough. We are not here to subsidize your clueless business plans or reward your failures. 1986 Honda Nighthawk 700S (project, light restoration in progress) 1987 Jaguar XJ6 Series III Vanden Plas (modified) 1990 Nissan (WD21) Pathfinder SE 4x4 (little red offroad commuter box) 1995 Jaguar (X300) XJR 1998 Honda Pacific Coast PC800 (two-wheeled pickup truck/utility bike)

June 24th, 2009, 7:46 AM	#1887
hansvonaxion Joined: Apr 8th, 2005 Last Online: 5:28 AM Location: Tokyo Posts: 1,773 Car: CB400SF Hyper VTEC Rep Power: 59	After a quick search, it appears to be electric... Fuel System: Two barrel downdraft mounted on four-branch water heated aluminium intake manifold, electrically controlled automatic choke __________________

June 24th, 2009, 7:51 AM	#1888
Spectre Joined: Feb 1st, 2007 Last Online: 9:12 AM Location: Dallas, Texas Age: 32 Posts: 8,359 Car: 87 XJ6, 95 XJR, 90 WD21, 86 CB700SC, 98 PC800 Rep Power: 191	Not surprised. The number of cars with an automatic mechanical choke is tiny... mostly because they usually didn't work. __________________ Enough is enough. We are not here to subsidize your clueless business plans or reward your failures. 1986 Honda Nighthawk 700S (project, light restoration in progress) 1987 Jaguar XJ6 Series III Vanden Plas (modified) 1990 Nissan (WD21) Pathfinder SE 4x4 (little red offroad commuter box) 1995 Jaguar (X300) XJR 1998 Honda Pacific Coast PC800 (two-wheeled pickup truck/utility bike)

June 24th, 2009, 4:08 PM	#1889
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June 27th, 2009, 7:21 PM	#1890
shad_68 Joined: Nov 23rd, 2008 Last Online: 9:31 AM Location: Dortmund, GER Age: 20 Posts: 1,220 Car: '08 Yamaha YBR125, '97 BMW F650 Rep Power: 126	Love the paintjob! __________________

June 27th, 2009, 9:35 PM	#1891
47 Joined: Mar 6th, 2006 Last Online: 9:22 AM Location: Croatia Age: 25 Posts: 1,432 Car: Focus 1.6, Kawa ER6n Rep Power: 30	uuu, preeety! Just got home, and as much as it's an inconvenience that my gf lives 20 miles away, the road is nice and it's a joy if I'm on the bike Got to wash it soon, drove home in the rain yesterday... __________________ 47 - tuned by Medtronic

June 28th, 2009, 1:35 AM	#1892
Jon Joined: Dec 30th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Wolverhampton, England. Age: 22 Posts: 1,062 Car: Ford Mondeo 2.0 Honda CBR600FS (Now wrecked!) Rep Power: 77	675 is such a gorgeous bike.. __________________ IV - VIII - XV - XVI - XXIII - XLII ƃıʇs ǝɥʇ ɯɐ ı My Flickr Account

June 28th, 2009, 2:05 AM	#1893
argatoga Can't Start His Wank Joined: Oct 4th, 2005 Last Online: 6:43 AM Location: Washington State, USA Age: 26 Posts: 4,793 Car: '78 MG Midget, '78 Honda CB400t Rep Power: 164	Well I've ordered my gear and will be looking at a bike tomorrow. Wish me luck! If all goes well I will be a potential organ donor in just over a week. __________________ "If you think about it breast implants aren't much different than braces. Their main purpose is to improve one's appearance, at least that's how it was in my case." - KaJun "Anyway, I'm off to eat my dick" - Austere

June 28th, 2009, 4:35 AM	#1894
freeferrarisdonotexist I'm not stupid - I'm British! Joined: Nov 4th, 2008 Last Online: 5:38 AM Location: Somewhere in the South of England, UK. Age: 26 Posts: 1,007 Car: Yamaha YBR125 (lightly modified) Rep Power: 23	Starter bike (125cc to 300cc or so) or something bigger? I would recomend some version of the Honda CB125 for a starter, easy to ride, simple, not desperately fast but not dangerously slow. Also cheap and easy to work on. Downside is plenty of people ride them so you'll be one of the crowd- but you could give it a custom paintjob. Rattlecan a-ok, hard to rice a CB! __________________ Proud to Defend: Miatas, Motorcycles, Rotaries and Manual Transmissions. My other car (in storage ) Black 1990 Miata 1st Gen. Restored and partially weight-stripped w/6-Speed transmission, CD stereo, short-throw shifter and billet knob, HID headlights, Hydra Nemesis ECU, tuned exhaust pipe, toolkit and vinyl top. The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. I listen to: Within Temptation, Amon Tobin, Karl Jenkins, Lux Aeterna, Ludovico Einaudi, Lupe Fiasco, Papa Roach, Gnarls Barkley, J. Ralph (Spy), Elbow, Snow Patrol, The White Stripes, Breaking Benjamin, Massive Attack, The Black Heart Procession, UNKLE, Craig Armstrong, Corner Stone Cues, Wolf's Rain OST, Cage the Elephant, and Lily Allen.

June 28th, 2009, 4:46 AM	#1895
Spectre Joined: Feb 1st, 2007 Last Online: 9:12 AM Location: Dallas, Texas Age: 32 Posts: 8,359 Car: 87 XJ6, 95 XJR, 90 WD21, 86 CB700SC, 98 PC800 Rep Power: 191	The problem with a CB125 (though I started off with one) is that you cannot ride them on the freeways. Not because of legal restrictions but because they're too slow. Honda ended CB125 sales in the US in the 80s. No, I've been pointing him at the CB400/450 line (the one that descended from the CM185/200 Twinstar). They have enough power to get on the highway, but there's no weight difference over the debored CB/CM/Rebel/Nighthawk 250 cousins in terms of the engine, and it's just as forgiving and friendly as the 250s (which it should be, because it's the same engine only with bigger cylinders and pistons.) They're all but indestructible and Honda sold a billion of the bloody things before killing off their last US 450 twin in the late 90s. Please note that the UK 400-500cc Honda range bears little to no resemblance to the old US one. __________________ Enough is enough. We are not here to subsidize your clueless business plans or reward your failures. 1986 Honda Nighthawk 700S (project, light restoration in progress) 1987 Jaguar XJ6 Series III Vanden Plas (modified) 1990 Nissan (WD21) Pathfinder SE 4x4 (little red offroad commuter box) 1995 Jaguar (X300) XJR 1998 Honda Pacific Coast PC800 (two-wheeled pickup truck/utility bike) Last edited by Spectre; June 28th, 2009 at 8:42 PM.

June 28th, 2009, 5:14 AM	#1896
argatoga Can't Start His Wank Joined: Oct 4th, 2005 Last Online: 6:43 AM Location: Washington State, USA Age: 26 Posts: 4,793 Car: '78 MG Midget, '78 Honda CB400t Rep Power: 164	I have been consulting with Spectre over PM. I haven't posted anything so as to avoid someone from snipping the bikes away from me. __________________ "If you think about it breast implants aren't much different than braces. Their main purpose is to improve one's appearance, at least that's how it was in my case." - KaJun "Anyway, I'm off to eat my dick" - Austere

June 28th, 2009, 6:13 PM	#1898
Jon Joined: Dec 30th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Wolverhampton, England. Age: 22 Posts: 1,062 Car: Ford Mondeo 2.0 Honda CBR600FS (Now wrecked!) Rep Power: 77	Let's face it.. Triumph have been making some pretty bastard gorgeous bikes .. Speed Triple in white.. Ohhhhh my.. MAY have a trouser accident. __________________ IV - VIII - XV - XVI - XXIII - XLII ƃıʇs ǝɥʇ ɯɐ ı My Flickr Account

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June 28th, 2009, 8:30 PM	#1900
argatoga Can't Start His Wank Joined: Oct 4th, 2005 Last Online: 6:43 AM Location: Washington State, USA Age: 26 Posts: 4,793 Car: '78 MG Midget, '78 Honda CB400t Rep Power: 164	I'm now the owner of a Honda CB400t! I'm on the ferry at the moment so it'll be a bit before I have a thread up. __________________ "If you think about it breast implants aren't much different than braces. Their main purpose is to improve one's appearance, at least that's how it was in my case." - KaJun "Anyway, I'm off to eat my dick" - Austere

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