Nope, mines an F4 750... but a few guys with the F3 were saying about sprag clutch failures and a clutch arm failure. There were also quite a few issues on early ones with fuelling maps apparently. Actually, I quite like the look of the F3 but I can't see me swapping mine in for one any time soon.
I can get a f3 800 on a 15 plate for 10k. That's a pretty bike for that money but everyone keeps telling me horror stories.
Seen at Brackley on 16 August was this 1950s Vincent Black Lightning engine in Manx Norton featherbed cycle parts. The lambda sensor on the exhaust is to help tune the Gardner carburettors. Here is the owner, Les Patterson, who told us he took this bike to Bonneville salt flats and recorded 136 mph. This is about the max possible for an unfaired* Vincent unless you do what Rollie Free did - which is no longer allowed. The other bike at the rear is a J.A.P. V-twin engined featherbed sprinter. * He mentioned he was thinking of trying it with a dustbin next.
Loads of classic Japanese bikes at the Ace café today. The most boring ones present were these two restored early-80s Honda 250 Super Dreams, so thought I would post these pics here for the benefit of insomniacs and @gliddofglood :
Ah. The 250 Superdream. Remember when they were about the most common bike in the land? I perversely bought a 400 Superdream. Perversely because all my mates had 400/Fours and I wanted to be different (no change there, then). Also my brother and I had a theory that a 4 had twice as many things likely to go wrong as a twin did. My 400N naturally impersonated a band saw and the camchain ate its way through the barrel resulting in something the Exon Valdez would have been proud of.
I, too savoured the delights of Superdream ownership, owning both a 250 and a 400. They were both shit.
