Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Makes a nice change with them not using a CX as the base bike.

Doesn't do much for me, too many of the usual niggles.
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Nicely done, but I can't think of a more insipid bike to build a cafe racer out of, apart from an XS250.
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Not sure that they've got away with making a "solid" rear wheel. From the photos you can see the imperfections in the disc that they screwed to the original(?) wheel. It'll look even worse in real life.

Oh, and the brown seat.
cheb wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:25 am Makes a nice change with them not using a CX as the base bike.
CX or GL - not much difference other than the outward styling, surely?


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It's a great job.
But you'd think you'd regret not powering it with something that had a bit more zip.
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

Post by Horse »

Lutin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:46 am Not sure that they've got away with making a "solid" rear wheel
Where's the tyre valve?
Lutin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:46 am CX GL styling
Style? Not a word often associated with the CX ;)
Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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I like his boots.
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Post by Supermofo »

I like some bits. Bit of a dufus move with the rear wheel though, right ballache to check tyre pressures.
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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I like his boots.
Not Vans for a change
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

Post by Skub »

There'll be some blatter off that straight thru...

I've seen nicer CX jobs.
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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It's a nice colour
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Oh god... why?
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Re: Retro Swan Song – Ironwood Motorcycles Gate Keeper Honda GL500

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Lutin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:46 am Not sure that they've got away with making a "solid" rear wheel. From the photos you can see the imperfections in the disc that they screwed to the original(?) wheel. It'll look even worse in real life.

Oh, and the brown seat.
cheb wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:25 am Makes a nice change with them not using a CX as the base bike.
CX or GL - not much difference other than the outward styling, surely?


Yeah, I know - it's easy to criticise.
We need a deadpan smiley, and that bike is very easy to criticise.
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