Honda CB250T (#1 - Hot Red)Built from the ground up with parts picked up at the local wreckers when I was 17 with the help of my Honda manual. She was my pride and joy.
She was totalled on her maiden voyage by a 90yo with coke bottle glasses. (
SMIDSY)
Honda CB250T (#2 - Metallic Emerald Green)Built from the ground up with parts picked up at the local wreckers when I was 18 with the help of my Honda manual. She was my pride and joy take 2.
Honda CB250/400N/T (#3 - Ninja Black)Built from the ground up with parts picked up at the local wreckers when I was 19 with the help of my Honda manual. Pride and joy take 2 was so popular a mate bought her off me...good excuse to build another! Good thing the wreckers seem to have no shortage of these things lying around!
My memory is a bit fuzzy about the details now but I do recall this bike originally being a CB250N...I didn't like the look of them so I used the CB250T tank, saddle and side covers etc.
Eventually I picked up a wrecked CB400 and just swapped the motor out
Honda CX500About 19 when I picked her up. Oh boy, the note of a "big" twin...I loved this bike and clocked up a hundred thousand+ kms on her.
A bastard to work on though so all the work was done in shop. :(
I remember one particular trip I loaded her up to the hilt with gear inlcuding...a back pack on my back...a pack pack on my front...a passenger on the back, side saddles, gear sack and everything else I could pack on there including 2 fishing rods sticking up the side like aerials.
On one scenic stop I put my foot down to find loose gravel and over she went...it took 3 men to get her back up again
...note to self next time find bigger men.
She was wiped out by a P-Plater (
SMIDSY). Put the missus head first through his windscreen and I went into the side of the car and enjoyed a 6 week break from work.
Honda CB750 Four - ChopperThis was a folly. I saw an ad in the paper and had some spare cash...the next thing I know I'm riding home on this home made chopper...
I was so scared it might fall apart at any minute I never road it again!
Honda CB900 - Bol d'OrOh my God...the power! Mwahahahaha. This bike was a sheer beauty to ride, a big brute but that's how I liked 'em.
Clocked up a lot of kms on her but in the end I just ran out of money...the workshop said the top end needed doing...so it got done...a week later the bottom end went while I was riding her
The workshop said "Yeah mate, you'll get that when you only do the top end up, puts extra pressure on the bottom end"...now if only they suggested doing the bottom end at the same time as the top end
I purchased a 77 LX SS Torana and gave the bike to a mechanic mate in exchange for a hot V8 motor for my new toy car, a good deal in the end...I miss that car.
15 year break....
Honda ST1100 - 2003PYThe flagship of my Honda fleet.
Ever since I got my first Honda I wanted a Goldwing...then the ST came out and it looked like the space shuttle (to me) and I just had to have one, the Goldwing can come later.
I purchased her off a fellow OzSTOC member in Adelaide a few weeks back, my first ride in 15 years and it was from Adelaide to Melbourne.
I started off a little rusty I can tell you and to help my return to 2 wheels I'm attending 2 advanced riding courses in a couple of weeks back-to-back on Saturday and Sunday.
It will be good to test the ST out on the race track and do some slalom work etc.
Thanks OzSTOC for helping out as I sort my way through all things ST.
Cheers,
Mech.
