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Re: Spencer CB1100

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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:05 pm The top one is one of these...

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:wtf: Now that is a mess of blandness! :sick:
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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I'd happily find a space for it in my garage.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:05 pm What are peoples thoughts on this

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https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2014/1 ... ride-kids/

And the original

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I like it. It is neither wee nor nesh. Not like them little Ducatis.
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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demographic wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:47 pm Ahh, yeah. Found it.
The Racefit Spencer Evo.


https://www.influx.co.uk/features/the-s ... sh-detail/
I haven't seen that out and about for a couple of years, I wonder if it's been sold to someone who doesn't ride it, used to see it quite often at Classic Bike Track Days
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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I’d much rather have this. The Hondas of that era for me were always the pipe and slippers choice.
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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I've got one of those already, it's a bit elderly and needs a lot of TLC
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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Bigyin wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:17 pm Hondas of that era were all tainted with the CBX snappy camchain brush hence why people thought they were all fragile and made of chocolate and bought big Kawasaki's and Suzuki's instead ;)

That one looks good but like others i preferred the Lawson rep everyday
CB900s were made of chocolate, or in my case Araldite and JB weld holding the cam cap bolts in.

At least it taught me how to helicoil.
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Re: Spencer CB1100

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Bigjawa wrote: Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:20 pm
Bigyin wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:17 pm Hondas of that era were all tainted with the CBX snappy camchain brush hence why people thought they were all fragile and made of chocolate and bought big Kawasaki's and Suzuki's instead ;)

That one looks good but like others i preferred the Lawson rep everyday
CB900s were made of chocolate, or in my case Araldite and JB weld holding the cam cap bolts in.

At least it taught me how to helicoil.
My Z1170 is getting like that, I can't remember how many of the cam cap bolts are time serted but it's a few and each time the cams come out another one needs doing, the cam chain tensioner has Helicoils in both bolts, but it is a 39 year old race bike, God knows how many times the engine has been apart.
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