WTD: Decent CB200

Why? I don't really know, I've just got this sudded urge to buy a
small SOHondaCommuter...

So, if anyone has one in good condition, mail me - address here is
valid.

 

Reliable. Predictable. Staid.

These characterisitics will all disappear in a puff of burning oil once you
buy one...

;o)

 

Akkshirley, what a cracking idea for a TV Show "Challenge Timo"

Every week viewers could submit their idea of the most reliable vehicle they
have ever experienced, and said vehicle could be provided to Herr Geusch for
a short term trial........

My first choice would be the humble Morris Minor, even SWMBO couldn't
destroy that one.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2469812415&category=9806

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Oldbloke says...

I wrote mine off 3 weeks after passing my test, would that count?


--
Lozzo : The anti-Timo
YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

Heh. What a marvellous idea.
I`ll take your Moggie and raise you a Vespa 150 Super. Trust me, I tried
*so* hard. Even neglecting duties such as accurate ignition timing, cleaning
spark plugs, decoking and even using 20/50 in place of 2-stroke oil on
occasion it was absolutely unburstable. 2nd kick every morning and it would
purr along like nowt on earth.

Back to the subject of CB200s, I wonder if in some kind of bizzaro-world
reversal, Timo gets one with a decent working front disc brake?

<fx: twilight zone music>

 

Oldbloke was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Yes-ish. It's a CD200, not a CB200 for starters, but then again it's
in rather nice condition. Makes you wonder why he didn't show the
other side of the bike as well...

 

I think crashing them shouldn't count unless its a result of a previously
unknown component failure.

 

sweller says...

Think 1300 Marina engined Minor Traveller[1], with twin 1 1/4 inch SUs
and standard Minor drum brakes approaching the rear of stationary Volvo
340, at a little over the speed limit. Get the picture?

[1] With retro-fitted seat belts that weren't being worn, this was early
May 1979.

--
Lozzo : The anti-Timo
YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

That's stupidity rather than geuschidity.

So, no, it doesn't count.

<an aside>
8" TLS drums (7" SLS rears) *what* were you thinking!

 

sweller says...

I was thinking "cheap performance, and who needs brakes anyway", I was
17 ffs

--
Lozzo : The anti-Timo
YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

That's ok then.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Heh. First Moggy crash I had, the Moggy drove away with a dented wing,
leaving behind a Mk2 Crotina with MacPherson struts only held in place
by an upward-forced, but still closed, bonnet.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

A Honda 400 Four caliper bolts straight on. plum in a master cylinder,
and you're away. I've seen one so converted.

 

Not as simple as all that: first, you need to scour Ebag for a 400 Four with
a decent front caliper as a donor bike, swap over the important bits, then
flog the 400 Four - that's been converted to cable caliper - for a profit.
Or yer name's not TOG...

--
Platypus - (surreal)
Triumph Trophy 1200 (The Incredible Hulk)
VN800 Drifter (still for sale)
R80RT (for sale - spares or repairs)
Z200 (Fear the Distance Monster!)
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

 

Christ I really am a blind ****, I am sure you typed CD rather than CB
ISTR someone (TOG possibly) once posting about certain CB200 bits being very
hard to get, but I may be wrong.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Heh, SWMBO had a similar Cortina interface when we had a Minor Traveller.
Front of Cortina (MKIV I think) was trashed, moggy had a small dent which a
friend of a friend beat out for me for a tenner.

Happy days

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Ahhh yes. I recall somebody (probably yourself) telling me about this. I did
have plans to try this mysef, but being a lazy sod combined with bugger all
money has not helped..

 

Some bits are hard to find. Exhausts are no prob, but mudguards are the
usual hassle.

 

has that horrid cable-operated disc, like the CB100, doesn't it?

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