First motorbike

[ozzie Bill.]

Excellent, love the conductive foam story, cheers, Bill.

[lil chris]

"Its currently in my house loft (Yes, Really!)"
Nothing unusual about that apart from the loft bit, I had most of a Honda 400F in my back bedroom, the engine was under the kitchen table.Then the kids came along and I had to buy a shed.

[trainsdownunder]

"Its currently in my house loft (Yes, Really!)"
Nothing unusual about that apart from the loft bit, I had most of a Honda 400F in my back bedroom, the engine was under the kitchen table.Then the kids came along and I had to buy a shed.

Built and serviced my TZ250 at the back of the lounge area in our apartment for an entire racing season. Used to dismantle the fairing and front end to get it out down a flight of stairs and then squeeze it into the back of my escort van.

[Smokebox]

My first bike was a Honda 90 sports, 1965 reg, bought from a work colleague in late 1968 just before my 16th birthday, not long after I started work as an (apprentice) chemical plant operator for Boots.  I then traded it in for a new BSA Starfire in 1970.  This suddenly developed a loud knocking noise from the engine just after the guarantee expired.  It turned out that the con rod had split from big end to little end due to the crankshaft being turned slightly oval instead of perfectly round.  BSA supplied replacement parts free of charge but I had to pay the labour charge.  I eventually had to sell it as I couldn't afford to keep paying the HP and put petrol in it.  I'd changed jobs by then and was getting paid slightly more but I still couldn't afford to run it.

Next was a Norton Dominator.  Bit of a bag of nails. Everything went wrong with it.  Went for scrap eventually and I moved on to to cars for a long while.

In 1977 I bought a Honda CB 400 Dream for commuting as the buses were unreliable and there was no free car parking available.  It's still in my garage awaiting restoration, if I ever get around to it.