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Hi I'm doing a Cafe 1975 Honda Cb500T. It's not run in years and today I finally got her running, well not very well tho. I have stripped and cleaned both carbs, and reset the points. I fired her up with choke ON. She idled really high say 2.5k and when I tried to turn off the choke she started...

It's seized, I've just heard they are not so great and thought if I got to replace it should I upgrade it?

Hi I just got a brand new project, my first cafe! It's a Honda CB500T 1975. She Needs a lot of work but that's ok that's the idea! So my front calliper is scrap. I heard they are not great so does anyone Know of a better calliper I can bolt on without having to change forks and start welding. (...