Two old 'Ondas of mine , the 1st the original Honda Superbike IMO as it wasnt a tourer in it original guise. It handled quite well for a mid 70's big old barge, a much later purchase of the CB1100RS reminded me a lot of the old Goldwing .
Thumbs up for the GL1000. I've had one for about 5 years now and it's a great bike. Surprisingly quick for a bike of its age and size and also comfy. A lot of people don't realise or have forgotten that it was the quickest standard production bike in its day after the 900 Kawasaki.
That is stunning......I'll never forget when I saw Colin Edwards roll up with this paint scheme at Laguna, i wasn't there like, but......definitely the golden era of superbikes!!
Oh, a Honda thread, smashing! This is the one that's going, to make space in the workshop for the Ducati! (this isn't an advert ... buuuut...
My,first of the 1000cc Fireblades. Totally original and always puts a smile on my face, even if the seat does have enough room to hold a banquet on it
My old Hornet - bought it in right state for £600 and then hit ebay for all the bits. So many bits I can not remember them all... Headed up to Slicks to get a dynojet fitted/dyno'd and after the first dyno run it developed a misfire at about 10,500 revs - it would pull through it but it wasn't happy. Over the next 6 months I swapped the plugs, the coils, the ECU, the loom, the engine... still had the misfire.. As I was still replacing all the old rusty bits (from the previous owner...) I replaced the right hand switch gear and the misfire went away.. the kill switch had corroded and was bouncing at a vibey point in the rev range... doh !!!
And my blackbird Sits in the garage as I just can't see far enough down the road any more to have fun on it.
After watching Fred Merkel in the transatlantic races at Donnington in the 80's I bought one of these. sold it before the cams had any problems !
