All your valves are belong to me. (sig change)

's probably 'cos carbs are narrower than cylinders - the carb bank can be
more compact. Mind, I don't see why you can't design the head with an
angled inlet tract to match. There's no real need for it to have a kink in
it.

 

The reason is so that the carbs don't bash your knees. It's as simple as
that.

 

Heh. I wondered about that. Bet the pattern exhaust headers are
single-skinned.

 

No offence, Timo, but I don't want you going anywhere near it.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19099.../..30233.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

Salad Dodger was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

<starts circling over the Isle of Dogs>

 

You know, I think I'd have to see it in the flesh. At Chimay,
presumably. There are one or two little things that just have me rubbing
my chin pensively.

 

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:51:54 +0100,

Give us a clue, then.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19099.../..30233.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

The exhaust. I think, but ICBW, that Jama is generally accepted as the
best pattern system for CBXs. Marving - I dunno. Maybe a cheapskate
choice, but I don;t know how they price up.

The engine - shows signs of someone having had a damn good clean of it.
Hard to tell from the pix, but I think there was a lot of surface
corrosion there at some time.

Seat I've mentioned. From the pix, it doesn't looks well done.

The paintwork seems excellent.

Overall - I'd say "bought as a semi-project by someone who didn't have
the dosh or time to do it properly".

But I need to see it in the flesh, really. I think 4k, on the face of
it, was over the odds.

 

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:24:15 +0100,

It would have been.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19099.../..30233.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

The exhaust. I think, but ICBW, that Jama is generally accepted as the
best pattern system for CBXs. Marving - I dunno. Maybe a cheapskate
choice, but I don;t know how they price up.[/QUOTE]

Me either. It is shiny, thobut.

Having just fitted the Rickman engine bars, it looks as if it's just
surface corrosion, with flaky paint.

I might get a replica cover from TimsCBX.com, and wave a bottle of
something appropriate[1] under Lozzo's nose.

It's got tiny issues. The tank has a tiny scratch, and a couple of
chips on the lower seams. The tail unit has a crack, dead centre,
where it rests on the subframe. It got worse about half an hour ago,
when I dropped the seat unit in the garage.

When the Prev Owner got it, it was, according to Adrian, at A&H[2,3],
"a bit scabby". It's considerably less scabby now. It was going to go
in for an engine shotblast and rebuild session, until the prev-owner
heard the quote.[4]

As Linda said: "if you got a mint one, you'd be scared to take it out
the garage in case it rained." I'd go along with that.

It doesn't really matter how much it cost, it's how much it will cost
to own. I paid over the odds for the KH500, and still made money.

One thing I am sure of - it's not getting cash thrown at it in heaps.

[1] Probably Orange squash, the abstemious little scamp.
[2] Top bloke for CBXs in the South East, apparently.
[3] A veritable Aladdin's Cave. In there today, I saw no less than 4
CBX motors in bits, a tidy red one outside, alongside two immaculate
Z900s. Inside were two H1As in showroom condition, if not better; one
of Mr Millyard's 4-pot "triples" - the 666[5]; and holy of holies, an
H1C. Very nasty condition, but, importantly, complete.
[4] >£1000
[5] "He's a great engineer, but no electrician" Runs everything off
points, apparently, so Adrian's building an electronic system, for it.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19099.../..30233.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

I can't see the Kwacker properly, there's some ol honda in the way!!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Timo Geusch

Just like Great Uncle Gerhard used to do?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

with drum brakes?

 

Aye.

A norange one, it was.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..75939.../...19198.../..30340.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR Clues: 24 Pts: 400 Miles: 1589

 

oooer. Don't tell ToG...


....oops, too late.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Targets are a tad smaller these days though.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Timo Geusch

Ach! Und zey call zis "progress"!

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

I've got the 12R support vehicle should you have need to kick it into a
hedge part way there

P.

 

Now that I'd like to see - Dodger going pillion with Zymurgy. Wheelie
anyone?

Mind you, ISTR you had the dubious pleasure of Robbo riding bitch at one
point, so....

 

Or YTC going pillion on Christophire's RS125... =8-O