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26-08-18, 11:03 AM | #1 |
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My first bike
I've been sorting my Dad's hundreds of 35mm slides and stumbled across this picture of my first bike. It's a Honda C95, 154cc twin, 4 speed, 6v with electric start, press steel frame and leading link forks. In this shot it was wearing its Dunstall megaphones which sounded different to the later small Hondas because it had a 360° crank, later ones had 180° cranks. Purchased second hand it cost me £45, my Dad and I both passed our tests on this bike. I later traded it for a new CB175 and it ended up in pieces in the dealers workshop.
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26-08-18, 11:17 AM | #2 |
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Re: My first bike
Nice.
Closest thing to that I've ridden was a CD175 |
26-08-18, 12:40 PM | #3 |
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Re: My first bike
Lovely bike, I bet it sounded nice through the megas too. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of 'helping' my dad work on his CB77 305 (registration JPL 425C).
One time he'd lifted the head to replace either a gasket or an o-ring that had failed and was causing an oil leak. After reassembling he decided to take it for a quick spin up the road to check the valve & ignition timing was all dialled in (the points ran off the camshaft on those Hondas). He couldn't be arsed mounting the silencers so rode it with the open headers. I can still hear that unique warbling roar from the 180-degree crank motor, and can still see the blue flames spitting from the headers as he went up the road. |
26-08-18, 05:18 PM | #4 |
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Pretty sure my dad had a black one of those
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