An early mega spring clean garage clear out and paging TOG - 92 CB250N valuation please

Took advantage of the good weather today to have a mega clear out in the
garage so as to fit in the Forgotten Error.

As this meant getting SWMBO's '92 CB250N 'Nighthawk' out I thought I
would see if it would go. Battery long since passed on, but hooked up to
the one removed from Morini#2 it turned over well, so I put the petrol
on and flicked the kill switch to run. It instantly gave a little burst
of life. Drained the carb (how clever of Mr Honda to provide a little
screw and drain pipe) and sloshed some super unleaded in the tank. Wait
a minute for it to work its way through and thumb the starter. Started a
treat. Didn't run it for very long given the age of the oil.

SWMBO is unsure whether to keep it given she is very unlikely to ever
ride it much.

So TOG, 'K' reg Honda CB250N (the semi cruiser one) in red. 13700
genuine miles on the clock. Everything functioning (once new battery
fitted), paintwork excellent but unfortunately damp has got in under the
engine casing lacquer. Not worth enough to bother trying to sell?

Other odds and ends turned up which will find their way on to Ebay
including a 40mm Bing '54' carb in good nick (from a twin shock era KTM
350 MX two stroke IIRC) and a Squire RS3 child's seat area cloth and
plastic windscreen thing.

I even found the proper job chain rivet extractor that I thought was
lost for ever. Yet to go through all the boxes stacked on the workbench
so who know what might turn up tomorrow.


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Are you kidding? They fetch really good money. Post-125 bike and
economical commuter, you see.

Strip off the lacquer with Nitromors, and then polish up the cases, get
it MoT'd, and it'll make £550-600, assuming it's as nice as you say, and
has an OE exhaust.

Um, I might be interested in that chain rivet extractor, if you're
selling it.

 

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:26:00 +0000, Pete Fisher

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Go and have a look see if you can find a complete sidecar in that cave
of yours, I want one for a little adventure (1) I've got in mind.

(1) Usual rules will apply. Details to follow once I've sorted out my
anti-crash device.

 

In communiqué <1ic7qsk.17m4fddkye9j4N%>,

Not OE exhaust. Soon after she got it the dreaded rattle from one
silencer started (baffle come loose?). It has a 2-2 'Jama' system IIRC.

No, the prodigal rivet extractor is taking pride of place in the special
tools box I have acquired specially for it, and things like the
compression tester you only use occasionally. That way I may keep track
of it. I've seen the price of the pukka jobs these days.
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They're not expensive to buy new. I've got one somewhere in my van and
I always use it in preference to grinding links out if I'm fitting a
new chain.

 

Similar ones I have seen advertised are £100 today. Good value if you
fit chains frequently I suppose.
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*Ouch*

I broke the big pin on my current one (and that's *after* I ground the
head off the pin) so I was thinking of buying a heavier duty one, but
I'd think twice at that price. I suppose I could look to see if spare
pins are available for the current one. Suppose I could also try
machining one up but it'd need to be a high-carbon steel and I'd have
to heat treat it.

 

<perk>

 

I register a tentative interest on behalf of my pre-DAS,
saving-up-to-get-married son. Have you decided to shift it? If so,
whereabouts in the country are you?

 

You're excluded under the standard rules.

 

Good enough.

Bah!

 

I'd have a word with dog about that, because if it isn't a model that
was homologated for France, you'll have appalling trouble.

 

In communiqué <1ic7x1s.12hfc4r1an0exhN%>,

Never thought of that, being pre type approval and ubiquitous. Must
research all that DRIRE stuff. Not such appalling trouble as I would
have bringing the faux WR250 back here, seeing as it is basically a
YZ250 with bobby dodger lights. Probably far easier to buy a SOB there.
The no 'Controle Technique' for motorcycles (yet) has it's benefits.


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Depends how old. If you buy a real old'un (like over 30 years, IIRC)
there are all sorts of rules governing how far you can and can't ride it
(like not more than one departement adjoining without permission).

At least, that used to be the case, or something approximating. I'd
check with a Froggie classic rag for the full SP.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

and what's special about that rule to make any self respecting motard
bother to comply?

 

Chris, don't take this the wrong way but you hardly qualify as an anti-
crash device...

 

You're in an argumentative mood today..... I suppose the average French
motard can ignore it, but having been on a few classic rallies in France
and talked to the guys there, I can tell you it's regarded as a PITA. I
imagine something like a tricked-up Jap bike would be hard to spot, but
some Brit SOB is a different matter.

I recall something about an exemption: if the bike has never been
registered outside the departement it was originally registered in, it's
exempt. But when you move to another departement you have to re-register
your vehicle and get new plates with the departement's two-digit number
on them, so to find a bike like this is very unusual.

ICBW. The situation was something along these lines. We need one of the
ukrm Froggies to give chapter & verse.

 

yes, but it doesn't have to be inspected or pass any kind of test or
anything for that to happen. you just hand over the carte grise and cross
the sweaty palms of the prefecture with silver.

 

I dunno, I can see a use for him.

In the same category as old tyres hung round the side of fishing
boats, to stop your bulwarks rubbing against your piles.

 

Ew. Just Ew.

Phil