Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

I affectionately refer to it as "the hell lane" and everyone knows which lane I'm on about. Locally you're not truly initiated into greenlaning until you have suffered it in at least one direction. We did it the worst direction (uphill over the exposed roots) so I was laughing, but the other two were not. They were complete beginners and blowing by halfway.

Were you out with the Sideburn guy? Just saw an IG story with a familiar bike in it

Sadly not me!

Can see the confusion…

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Location please? You're out 'west' no?

Looks like pure filth. Not sure what I’d do with that. If in doubt, gaaaaas.

New helmet day - got stuck in customs coming from Germany but they tracked it down. Bit more casual for the sunny days.

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That hell lane is near Chiseldon

Smart lid! I bought an airbrush kit over Christmas to do a repaint on my similar style Roeg Peruna helmet which you've reminded me I need to get on with...

/ nice lamps too by the way

That’s a seriously beaky peak on that bad boy.

Yea the hell lane is fine in the normal direction but I took them in reverse. Without any momentum you just can’t get over the exposed root steps.

After that it’s just overgrown trees and bushes and deep ruts. You know, easy stuff.

Talking of filth. I really do want this now…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kx5NE4cZquQ

https://tiremountingtool.com/products/tmt6-tirecharger-max

I think that suddenly I’ll have a few more friends than I thought.

It’s nice! Typical Shoei quality and the little drop down internal visor is very handy.

Seen Zoomer No 7 leave yesterday, always sad when another one goes.

Snap, love the helmet but if I forget my ear plugs it's hell for me.

Anyone noticed used prices heading down? I'm seeing the same bikes from August last year up for sale with big reductions. If it wasn't for everything in my life breaking I'd be back in the game.

The bike mags have been saying this for a few months, good to see it's actually happening. If you're a buyer at least.

Signed up for a test ride for the crack!

https://maeving.com/pages/maeving-rm1s-electric-motorcycle

Oh just clocked the price, fuck that! 🤣

Yeah it's too much money for too little performance unfortunately.

I think for an EV moto it's still very hard to beat Zero... it's something I'd love to get myself but there just isn't a good price/ performance option out there yet really aside from the Ultraviolette F77 but they're not available in Europe yet...

Oof that looks good!

Loads of these in Thailand, starting to see them appear in Vietnam as the CT125 is still not officially sold through Honda HEAD dealer network, only importers which means (regardless of what they say when you buy it = ZERO WARRANTY and parts are through importers only, so your paying UK price for any part that isn't already on a Vietnamese Honda model already). Super cub is now finally on the official dealer sales portal, but they are quite pricey compared to other bikes, around £3k, so a tad more than an SH160i with ABS.

Yamaha are about to steal the market in them as the super cub equivalent and the PG-1 are now freely available and priced around 48 million VND which is about £1850, something like that. Just starting to see them arrive at dealers the last few weeks but some folk already got them and been modifying and adding all the accessories in the world to them.

Out in SE asia the CT125 or PG1 are pretty much IDEAL do all the things bikes. No traffic is that fast, 100kmh is basically impossible or stupid to ride that fast here. MC of all sizes are banned from the toll motorways (the only place with constant concrete barriers to keep poppers (folk who just do not look and ride perpendicularly directly in-front of you, regardless of your speed or size of vehicle), so anywhere you ride, you must be prepared for someone to just pop out directly in-front of you at all times. Been here nearly 3 months and already seen a few serious casualties and unfortunately 2 instant fatalities due to this behavior.

Back on topic, some bike thats low to the ground, upright, super comfy armchair like seat (because doing 300 km in a day is a 12 riding hour + task), got suspension, easily to modify, good on fuel (if its slow it might as well be efficient right?) and you can easily attach a bunch of luggage to without dropping £600 at the kriega shop. And good off road, or where the good tarmac road that you've been enjoying at 80 kmh for hours suddenly has holes into the centre of the earth (this is a UK thing too).

Seen reports of super cub and CT125 in the USA selling for near double msrp, and their msrp is higher than it is here by a good chunk despite the (current) still requirement to import almost individually and pay all the extra taxes and fee's (vs Honda HEAD import program from other ASEAN nations which basically waves all of that*).

I.E SH 125, 150, 160 are made in Vietnam so are cheapest in the world, but they only gain a few hundred USD being transferred and sold in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and through legit Honda dealers so full warranty and parts support. And vice versa. UK used to be part of something like ASEAN, I think it was called the EU? Distant memory now....

Thats rough! You'd think LDN was hard enough trying to keep a bike from being robbed, vandalised, knocked over by assholes, but now foxes are at it too?

A skillful vinyl seat repair place might get it into not so bad status if your trying to keep it as original as possible.

Here's a question... My neighbour has a Honda CB77 that he has been working on for ages . Just so we can be sure he'll have no problems I'm wondering if the fact that he has what I think is quite wide bore fuel hoses to his carbs going to be an issue. It is petrol grade clear flexible stuff but would it cause an issue as I reckon the flow would be different to OEM hoses. The carb floats seem to work but am I barking up the wrong tree?

No issue with clear lines on cars with a fuel pump. But as long as inner bore is the same there there shouldn't be an issue.

Don't get how the wide bore, I'm taking that to be internal bore, fitted on to the carb and tank fittings.

Doesn't matter what the ID of the line is as long as it's secure, flow is determined by the id of the tank outlet and carb nipples. I like clear line as you can see that you have fuel but make sure it's genuine Tygon or Motion Pro stuff. There's a lot of cheap, vinyl shit around that goes bad fast.

Cool, that's one potential variable that doesn't exist. The carbs have been cleaned and rebuilt professionally but it starts on the button and runs great on choke but dies once the choke is off.

Sounds like blocked jets to me. Does it rev while the choke is out?

Ah well, I thought that but the carbs have been sent off and all new, supposedly, bigger jets fitted throughout. The carb man is considered a CB77 guru so he can't have got it wrong, surely. I suggested raising the needles one notch and using V-Power petrol which has slightly improved the situation.