Recent content by Green199

100 year old French bike that survived the WW2 in France relatively unscathed. Now my mate owns it and did this to it…

Plenty in the sump PJ, but on disassembly we found the pressure relief valve from the crankcase wasn’t working - so the pump couldn’t overcome the crankcase pressure and wasn’t pumping any in…atleast that’s my understanding!

Well, safe to say it’s been a while Many years, home moves, and a career change later - but the Honda remains in my life! It’s had an engine respray, a new wiring loom and a Hindle 2-1 fitted with a GP style can. Haven’t done too many miles on it, think about 130 in total, but we don’t get...

...And thats how she sits right now! B&A below. Before. And after. Next steps are to figure out the indicator wiring for the LED strips (they're a pain because of the waterfall effect needing a constant feed - so need to tap in before the flaser relay - but also because I need to control...

And fitted on the bike! You can see the colour match isn't perfect, but its good enough until I can get around to respraying the tank and front fairing to match. Wired in the LED strips to act as the running lights at the minute, and left the amber ones until I can figure out how best to...

Started laying the decals down, and realised halfway through that the tuning fork symbol was the music version and not the motor company....fuck. That's what you get for not paying attention and rushing things through! :p Finally sprayed the top section black (kept putting off right until...

Laid down the first few coats of Red. It wasn't colour matched as it was just a cheap job from Wilko's, but after a test spray it looked close enough when not in direct sunlight (only saw the how different it when the sun came out properly and the colour truly popped!). I then demasked and...

Started off the bodywork by filling shit loads of dents and holes, and then laid down the first few base coats of white. I probably spent about a week sorting all the little imperfections out and still didn't get them perfect....but got fed up and thought fuck it...that'll do. Then laid...

A few test rides later to check everything fit ok, and didn't fall off, and I worked out a paint scheme. Going for a semi-retro sort of race-rep look, without actually being one. Yeah yeah I know, another love-or-hate look....lucky i'm in that camp that loves it. Ignore my terrible 'paint'...

A few more from the other side, and front, showing fitment around the engine. The OEM ones really bulge out around the motor, but these have a much better fit after I shaped them and 'pulled them in' a bit more.

Picked up some side fairing from an Italian company called Motoxpricambi. I'd seen some fazers with the side fairings on before, but they had all been the OEM ones based on the earlier 'boxeye' models, or some reproductions from a Polish company...and quite frankly they looked utter shite...

Yeah, you're right Teazer. The dogs looked ok on all gears, but I've got a feeling some of them were installed incorrectly (2nd gear can be inserted either way, with a chamfer on one side to allow it to seat further into next gear and get full dog engagement). From what I have read it can...

This is finally where the fun begins! ;)

Put it all back together and it was a little better, so went for another...ahem...spirited ride on a nice local straight I know. Revving the tits off of it allowed the tensioner to take up the slack and quitened it down a bit. That ride wasn't 100% successful. Bloody managed to split one of...

Threw it all back together to get a few days of riding in and see if the bars/suspension all felt ok. Didn't get around to wiring the LED strips into the loom as I was still figuring out how to feed it. During the first start-up it developed the horrible cam-chain noise due to the automatic...