Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Sounds quite sensible. You have to buy a bike in a box a few times in your life. I would be driving myself mad imagining how that's going to ride.

Good move probably - wiring though.

That looks wild! Since this will all be redundant in a decades time, might be worth spending some money on a mud machine.

@Airhead I was all for a hundred quid, so can't really go wrong. Either that or famous last words.

@hanford Shh...let's not speak those words yet. Now to find a garage to rent.

Yup. Totes.

At least when you buy a bike in boxes, make it something simple. ;)

More power to your shed.

£100, it would have been rude not to!

What budget road legal green laning bike that can be left stored and unridden for 6m at a time?

Lol

Fuck

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And there I was wishing I had a project. What is that, rust? Could be a nice excuse to get some head work? #silverlining

Bargain. Total bargs.

And a whole lot of it. Not really sure it’s a bike worth it enough to go down the port polish route.

@pdlouche worse comes to worst, I can just split eBay.

oops - does the crank turn/free pistons ?

you could do this,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-CBR-600-FM-FN-1991-1992-Engine/363191782670?hash=item548feacd0e:g:8qUAAOSwVO1fu4E4

or ' really ' get to know the bike ( which I'd do if there was no rush ).

Will clean out ports at least before checking for compression and spin. Oil in window looks like oil, so I’m hoping intake valves have been closed this whole time.

Not really looking to spend big money on this, I’d rather work on something more...special, so might be a case of ‘really’ getting to know the bike.

Might be one of those ones where if you had a big warm garage that you could slowly take the time to strip it all, clean out the internals and fully refresh/rebuild, it would be worth it but otherwise it isn’t.
I’ve dreams of buying a 2 seater sports car and stripping it to the chassis and rebuilding but it ain’t happening in London and certainly not in the next 2 or 3 years.

Nail > head.

You've pretty much summed up the struggle in my head.

I haven’t even opened the Haynes manual to check process of the cam chain replacement on the GN125... after 6 months since parking it in the shed.

Ironic isn't it, personally more tinkering gets done in the summer when its not so freezing in the shed.

Dunno about over there but head work has got brutally expensive here since all the old boys that used to do it for a pack of fags and a sixer have wheelied off to the big workshop in the sky....450 bucks for a 3 angle valve job on a 4 valve single.

If you have rust in the intake like that, you’ll probably need the works, guides / seals / valves....almost certainly not worth it. Any other heads in the pile?

Gave this a quick fettle and a splash of 110 premix. Not really ridden anything for quite a while and hoooo-boy. Even up the alley it’s a handful. Hard to overestimate how mental 250, 2 stroke MX bikes are. Will have to get out properly
soon....

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That is properly filthy, just as it should be :)

Same here I reckon. Got quoted silly cash for valve adjustments on a triple. All day job he said and all fluids gotta be dumped.

Yeah managed to remove the carbs/bodies (obviously installed by Thor) and float/vaccum chambers are full of shit too.
I've got another complete engine that was better taken care of, so will check this weekend, otherwise, I'll hawk it all on eBay.

It's a right shame, the bike has stupidly low miles on it and barely any external corrosion.

Love it, but I'm waiting for a steering damper before it gets too much of a spanking. A year or so back, it threw the worst slapper ever...4th gear on a fast trail, filled with part buried rocks. I ended up slumped over the bars, feet off, hands off (sprained wrist) and with very bruised 'pride'....most banged up I've been without actually eating shite!

It has form... one of my mates here crashed it into the only tree in the Mojave desert and our very own @FRANK flipped it on his first outing. Good job MX bikes crash well.

@Chak Fingers crossed on the other motor mate.

How was the tree?

Haha - unscathed. My chum broke two knuckles though and the bike went down the side of a mini canyon. Fortunately, another friend was there on his XR600R, El Burro to ferry the injured party out.

Great

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