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v8-powered wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:38 pm image_3774db10-3016-4b0e-b58a-65780e7dc98e20220304_183803.jpg
It looks heaps better than the original, but no front mudguard and stupid tyres make it unrideable imo
Bustaspoke wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:27 pm Have a search o Ebay for Honda Cub & you'll find this.According to the description it was decor in a Italian restaurant :D
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I know Honda had a plant in Italy but I don't think they made C90's...
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Does anyone else follow this guy on Friendface?

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You could eat your diner off this Moto Martin, but the thing that really caught my attention... the brake and clutch reservoirs.

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Now that's the kind of work that would be completely beyond these bearded hipster chappies. Making stuff that works as it should do and just looks right. And not a brown seat, empty triangle or wacky paint scheme in sight.
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Suzook 1000K5 with 400bhp @ rear wheel. Apparently.

That'd need some electronics package. :lol:

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Skub wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:31 pm Suzook 1000K5 with 400bhp @ rear wheel. Apparently.

That'd need some electronics package. :lol:

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That'll have a brown seat soon enough :D
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That's the chavviest thing I've seen in a long while. Take a RH bend just a little too enthusiastically and your air filter is toast. And a stubby can, just to complete the set. What a PoS.
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mangocrazy wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:31 pm That's the chavviest thing I've seen in a long while. Take a RH bend just a little too enthusiastically and your air filter is toast. And a stubby can, just to complete the set. What a PoS.
How about a bit of rain on the air filter ?
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Yeah, that as well...
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Stick on carbon wrapped forks are a nice touch though :lol:
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Skub wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:31 pm Suzook 1000K5 with 400bhp @ rear wheel. Apparently.

That'd need some electronics package. :lol:

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Is it parked on a demo site for 'paving' options? They appear to have tarmac, resin bonded, paving slabs and gravel in about 15ft of frontage.

(The bike looks a bit like that too).
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Count Steer wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:17 am Is it parked on a demo site for 'paving' options? They appear to have tarmac, resin bonded, paving slabs and gravel in about 15ft of frontage.
I think the 'tarmac' part is a mat.

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I've always said an ashtray is more use on motorbike than a turbo or a blower...
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400 hp? It would need something special as a rear tyre too!
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400???

A real man is happy with half that :)
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I'd never heard of this Japanese bike. A Marusho/Lilac.

Apparently went bust in 1962.

Familiar engine layout. I can't get a pic up,but you can see in the link below.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/LV0120-39247 ... RPhqRa7seo

Restored version.

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You made me look at the wiki page. They did a V-Twin like a Guzzi too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marusho
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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:04 pm You made me look at the wiki page. They did a V-Twin like a Guzzi too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marusho
Like an MZ/Guzzi lovechild.

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I worked with a bloke in the 70s who mixed up his cylinders with engine type.

He reasoned,if a Honda CB750-4 was a fourstroke and a Yamaha 250 YDS7 twin was a two stroke,then the Kawasaki triples were 3 strokes.
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Skub wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:12 pm I worked with a bloke in the 70s who mixed up his cylinders with engine type.

He reasoned,if a Honda CB750-4 was a fourstroke and a Yamaha 250 YDS7 twin was a two stroke,then the Kawasaki triples were 3 strokes.
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