Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on May 11, 2009, 11:04:47 PM
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I was tidying up my motorcycle garage the other day and I pulled back a dust sheet and thought "Hey, look, a CG125, I'd forgotten I'd bought that" ::)
Anyone else actually managed to forget that they owned a bike?
I don't dare tell my wife... she will start thinking I've got forgotten purchases parked up all over the place.
GC
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And... thinking of CG125's, how cheap can you buy a second hand Chinese CG copy for these days? I reckon we should have a competition next year, the best CG-based special. I reckon for very few beer tokens you could get your hands on a Chinky-Honda and build something fun.
Here's an example:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/22/!BSOKts!!mk~$(KGrHgoOKioEjlLmeN7IBKCGYYgebQ~~_2.JPG) (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CG-125-NOT-HONDA_W0QQitemZ200341242976QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Motorcycles?hash=item200341242976&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A2%7C294%3A50)
Click on image for link to details
GC
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Hmmm, 125's aren't that cheap, certainly not up this end of the world :-\ maybe you should make it *any* small thumper, say under 200cc?
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Yes, I had thought of that, there's any number of unwanted baby thumpers lurking in back gardens throughout this land.
The only hard bit is thinking of a catchy competition name...
And... you'd have to go some way to beat this:
(http://norton73.smugmug.com/photos/10354960-S.jpg)
Rightyo, mine is in the planning stages and may look uncannily like the abortive attempt at a club project, 'Project Pushrod' (see Thumper passim). Roger has a CG project on the go, but I'm not sure we can wait 20 years ;) Anyone else going to step up to the plate?
GC
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Never bought a bike and forgot about it, but one week Aldi had those handy little sanders which fit in the palm of your hand, so I thought "That looks handy - I'll get one of those".
You guessed it - went to put it in the garage, and sat it on the shelf next to the other one I'd bought the previous time they'd had them in.
The missus blamed my age, and that I buy most of the tools Aldi have going.
Fortunately, it was just before my brother's birthday, so he got an unexpected present as well as the usual funny card.
Trevor
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I don't have the money to keep the bikes I have in the fettle I would like never mind squandering cash on a 125 I don't want or need for the purposes of producing some Frankensteinian project machine. >:( BTW what were the results of the last competition run here abouts. XBR and SRX something from memory?? ;D
BTW if anyone knows anyone interested in a vast amount of MZ parts gratis then let me know.
Steffan
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And... you'd have to go some way to beat this:
(http://norton73.smugmug.com/photos/10354960-S.jpg)
GC
To be fair that is cowing gorgeous.However I agree with Steffan , I've got more than enough on my plate at the mo'.If I had something lurking in the garage then no problem,but I'm not about to add to my woes .
There's some nice projects on the go already within the club .How about a deadline for the Oct Stafford show with a view to exhibiting a group of ' specials ' on the club stand .
Gc could finish his IKIE , and there are a number of nice jobs .Hurleys XBR ,Pats Xbr etc etc. Would give a different slant on the club stand .
Well.............................................
Rob .
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I don't dare tell my wife... she will start thinking I've got forgotten purchases parked up all over the place.
GC
And of course.....She'd be right ;)
And yes...I'm up for the challenge, as long as it's anything under 200cc....I can then include the Bantam that is gently rotting under a tarp behind the garage
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If I had any spare money.....or put myself in hock for the next millenium and would buy another bike to tug my sidecar !!!!
Then purchase some beer for the little free time I have.
Jethro
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I occasionally miscount the MZs around the garage.
I need to get rid of a load of ETZ251/301 parts mind, and concentrate on a modded 250.
Richard
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Can't find time to work on Abigail at the mo, let alone anything else. I don't know which is more precious, time or money?? Certainly I'm strapped for both.
I've a lovely Dommie motor just waiting to get the once over, and I just can't free up an evening/weekend to look at it. By the way things are going, it'll be winter again before a spanner gets twiddled :-[
Heyho!
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It was just a thought ::) :D
As most of us serial project starters will testify, your main project stalls repeatedly due to lack of funds or scarcity of parts, etc. but when you start something frivolous things seem to fall into place. It's weird and I'm sure there must be a name for the phenonmenon.
My CG cost £65 so the cost argument doesn't really apply for me. The tank I'm fitting came via a bit of good fortune at the local tip. I had a spare saddle hanging up in the garage already. The lads at my local motorcycle training school were throwing away a good CG centrestand, swingarm and front wheel (better than those already fitted). See what I mean?
GC
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If I had any spare money.....or put myself in hock for the next millenium and would buy another bike to tug my sidecar !!!!
Are you keeping you new Bonnie as a solo then?
GC
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Never bought a bike and forgot about it, but one week Aldi had those handy little sanders which fit in the palm of your hand, so I thought "That looks handy - I'll get one of those".
They're a useful little item aren't they... if I was you I'd buy a couple ;)
I picked one up the other week and I've used it lots for work since then. Nice item. Considerably cheaper than the DeWalt drill I'm off to buy this morning (because my old Bosch has died).
GC
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Well I have kind of ground to halt due to a) being pretty useless and b) needing a set of TLS brake arms with an 11mm dia splined hole. Have been pondering today and wondered if some splined sections from 11mm grar levers could be pressed into use.
I am sure someone somewhere has a set or makes replacements that would fit - but I cannot find them.
The std CG arm fits, but mine is busted and those nice people at Dave SIlver spares cannot tell me how much one will cost without the frame number - and then the frame is from a cb125 so they tell me it is not a drum brake.
Almost a rant that.
R
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Rog - I think I've got a couple of spare CG brake plates with arms... do you want me to dig them out?
Oh, nearly forgot to mention, I've picked up another lightweight, a gently rotting Honda 50cc Cub on a K reg. Free to me if I took it away... so I did.
It's funny how the things that rot first that are the expensive bits to replace, namely the wheel rims, spokes and forks. Apart from that it could probably be persuaded through an MOT with a bit of effort.
I thought I might Ebay all the bits and then sell the frame and log book too (K is tax exempt isn't it?, I guess that should give the log book some value)
GC
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Oooh yes please
R