Lord of the Hondas [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Big Dave

24th July 2010, 23:24

Big Dave

24th July 2010, 23:56

And another one shot partly here:

<object width="560" height="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XiBX8MkFkd4&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XiBX8MkFkd4&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="445"></embed></object>

tri boy

25th July 2010, 08:48

No Orc's were harmed in the making of these films.
(His "Rolla Door" closes more quietly than mine, and his other rolladoor has the same crap shocks as mine had in the 80's.

Bass

25th July 2010, 09:02

Memories.
The southern coast - Cosy Nook (once called Mullet Bay) and trees with all the foliage on one side.

shrub

25th July 2010, 11:45

Makes me want to buy a Honda and definitely makes me wish my bike wasn't in bits so I could go for a ride.

Owl

25th July 2010, 11:52

Prefer "Lord of the flies":D

Flip

25th July 2010, 11:56

Lord of the Honda same thing as Lord of the Rings!

FJRider

25th July 2010, 12:01

Makes me want to buy a Honda and definitely makes me wish my bike wasn't in bits so I could go for a ride.

I have NOT got a Honda ... my bike is NOT in bits ... and I definitly WILL go for a ride today ...

shrub

25th July 2010, 12:05

I have NOT got a Honda ... my bike is NOT in bits ... and I definitly WILL go for a ride today ...

Bastard.

I keep telling myself that once my bits come back from the nice man who is powdercoating them black my bike will be even more beautiful and that will more than make up for it that it's OK not to ride right now because of the grit on the roads.

Pity I don't believe myself and thank God that the desire to own a Honda went away the moment I stopped watching the video.

=cJ=

25th July 2010, 15:34

Bloody first ad, now there's something in my eye... :weep:

dangerous

25th July 2010, 18:45

Lord of the Hondas
I'd love to know how the hell ya get from Dunedin to Glenorchy via Wanaka... with out a single bug impact on the visor... huh huh?
I like it very 750k'ish but Id sooner have the real thing or a 1100R maybe if it had lower bars and a whale tail...

Swoop

26th July 2010, 08:58

And another one shot partly here

I was genuinely waiting for this to appear out of the water at the end.
214039

EDIT: Aha! It does, here (http://hondajet.honda.com/gallery/index.aspx?section=VIDEOS&m=impossibledream).

Banditbandit

26th July 2010, 09:10

Posey jacket ... crap jeans ... open helmet .. no wonder he doodles the bike along at 30mph ... and on such a great road ... and we didn't get to see the secret Honda Handshake at the end ...

dangerous

26th July 2010, 11:21

Posey jacket ... crap jeans ... open helmet .. no wonder he doodles the bike along at 30mph ... and on such a great road ... and we didn't get to see the secret Honda Handshake at the end ...

I know... I was waiting for the hell power wheelie beside the moth.
Thing is the bikes being aimed at the born again and triumph type posers, I mean after all a tootpaste tube and #46 helmet just wouldnt suit aye...
Id have it but would cafe style it and pound the shit out off every horse power it has. :scooter:

HenryDorsetCase

26th July 2010, 11:26

I love the look of it, and even emailed my dealer about price and availability.

but given the Honda tax, would you not be better off buying something functionally equivalent but much much cheaper: say one of those grey import mid 90's CB750F's out of Japanland?

like this, say?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=302236021

dangerous

26th July 2010, 11:41

like this, say?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=302236021 naaa, it dosent look any thing like a CB

HenryDorsetCase

26th July 2010, 11:44

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Sports/auction-303762017.htm214040214040214040

dangerous

26th July 2010, 11:52

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Sports/auction-303762017.htm yeah more like it altho the 2010 is more bassed on the dry sump and 'K' modles

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-305397553.htm NB the 4-1 and side covers

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Classic-vintage/auction-305527800.htm NB the engine design and lack of tail fairing.

shrub

26th July 2010, 16:24

I know... I was waiting for the hell power wheelie beside the moth.
Thing is the bikes being aimed at the born again and triumph type posers, I mean after all a tootpaste tube and #46 helmet just wouldnt suit aye...
Id have it but would cafe style it and pound the shit out off every horse power it has. :scooter:

Yeah, it's got potential. There are bugger all bikes that come from the factory ready to ride - I can't leave bikes alone and end up giving everything I own at least one makeover - every time I look at a bike I think "imagine if...." I was looking a V11 Sport the other day and thinking maybe I need to return to the dark side, but wasn't sure what to do to it.

grbaker

26th July 2010, 16:45

err very Retro.

Looks likes me CB250RS from the 80's ... just missing the drum brakes.

Whilst I like Roadster style bikes, I also like to see something new in a new model (even the Harley XR1200R had a fresh look). Its not ugly or shit just nothing new or better than a twenty year old CB750/1000. (2cents, no flame).

dangerous

26th July 2010, 17:21

I was looking a V11 Sport the other day and thinking maybe I need to return to the dark side, but wasn't sure what to do to it.well...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=305987891 the possibilitys are endless, 7k and a decent deal IMO... so, strip it to the bear nakidness like the CB, Lemans it or even... 'sport monza it Yip its a kit for a v11.214057

Big Dave

26th July 2010, 17:28

Triumph type posers?

From a Guzzi rider. Bwahahahahahaahahaahahahaahahaahahaaaaahha!

dangerous

26th July 2010, 17:39

Triumph type posers?

From a Guzzi rider. Bwahahahahahaahahaahahahaahahaahahaaaaahha!
heyyyyyyyyyyy, LOL look closely at the pic

Duno what its like up your way but I refer to the trend down here with the born agains and how they have gone from HD to Triumph, its a stigma all right... hassle a guzzi gezzz man low :Punk:214059

Big Dave

26th July 2010, 18:53

Image them buying nice motorcycles like that. Obviously flippin' idiots. :-P

shrub

26th July 2010, 18:55

well...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=305987891 the possibilitys are endless, 7k and a decent deal IMO... so, strip it to the bear nakidness like the CB, Lemans it or even... 'sport monza it Yip its a kit for a v11.214057

Yeah, it's been on for a while and at $7k that would leave a few K for some personalising and tastiness. Out of the crate they're a bloody good bike and well equipped for a road bike.

shrub

26th July 2010, 18:58

the sound of an angry triple is truly addictive and due to the student lifestyle and a new mortgage I can't afford both.

You Guzzi people are evil, I keep thinking back to my old Mk2 and the many miles we shared, that lovely rocking side to side thing, the seat like a plank and those electrics.... God I loved that bike.

Big Dave

26th July 2010, 18:59

Is the Buell road or track?

Big Dave

26th July 2010, 19:02

My pick is the V7. I really like that bike.

dangerous

26th July 2010, 20:10

Out of the crate they're a bloody good bike and well equipped for a road bike.

ya reckon? :innocent:

Is the Buell road or track?Its Rashika's as is the LC, The buell was built up from new for the track but Rashika rescued it having said that we have both raced it all the same... dont need to tell you how they beg for blue bloody murder :shutup:

214075 214077

the sound of an angry triple is truly addictive and due to the student lifestyle and a new mortgage I can't afford both.Dont worry I know it, the sound is awesome... for a non twin

214078

But back to the CB... hell I even raced my own CB muilty :)

214079

shrub

26th July 2010, 20:39

ya reckon?

Hey, I still think electric start and disc brakes is pretty well up there. Hell, my T Bird has fully adjustable suspension and liquid cooling - that's a seriously trick piece of kit.

dangerous

27th July 2010, 11:27

Hey, I still think electric start and disc brakes is pretty well up there. Hell, my T Bird has fully adjustable suspension and liquid cooling - that's a seriously trick piece of kit.
ok I was calling your bluf, or were you calling mine... "ya reckon" cos as you know I have one and yes it has some of the worlds best components, Brembo, Ohlins etc :scooter:

Big Dave

27th July 2010, 12:57

My T'bird has Ohlins and Race Tech suspension - the standard 1995 units were...poor.

shrub

27th July 2010, 13:05

ok I was calling your bluf, or were you calling mine... "ya reckon" cos as you know I have one and yes it has some of the worlds best components, Brembo, Ohlins etc :scooter:

The best equipped tractor on the road. People under rate Guzzis at their peril.

dangerous

27th July 2010, 16:11

The best equipped tractor on the road. People under rate Guzzis at their peril.
LOL... no they have their reasons

My T'bird has Ohlins and Race Tech suspension - the standard 1995 units were...poor.
as std fitings? or are you saying yours is a 95? Triumph are very high quality these days proberly more so than the CB1100 the thread is about. The v11 I have Ohlins is std, not that there was anything wrong with the WP they used to and still do use.

This 10 CB, it is ok aye, perhaps some veraints of it and some nicer running gears I asume it has the Honda owned Showa shit.

Big Dave

28th July 2010, 09:46

Honda owned Showa shit.

You are out of touch there ol' bean,

Can't comment on the track use - but Showa make very good road bike suspension these days. Have done for years. like all of them - the more you spend the better the results.

Agree Ohlins are better - not that much better to warrant the $ upgrading the three-way adjustable set up on both ends of my Buell. Again unlike your apps - I'm talking all-roads use.

The 1995 T'bird had Kyaba as standard. Worked OK till it emulsified - about 15K.

But they (Kyaba) have lifted their game over the past 5 years too.

Marknz

28th July 2010, 10:09

awww shit, I was expecting Pussy to be climbing out of the cockpit...

:shutup:

dangerous

28th July 2010, 18:50

You are out of touch there ol' bean,

Can't comment on the track use - but Showa make very good road bike suspension these days. Have done for years.
No doubt, I was refering to my F3 suspension on a VTR1000... it was crap :)

Big Dave

29th July 2010, 10:45

No doubt, I was refering to my F3 suspension on a VTR1000... it was crap :)

I look back to the first wide glide I tested and the way current ones handle and it's quite remarkable really how far suspension and handling has come in 10 years.

Same advances as horsepower.

It took 40 years for 'ordinary' bikes to go from 50 to 100 horsepower and under 10 to go from 100 to 150

toycollector10

29th July 2010, 21:52

I rode most of those roads back in June 2006 in a 2000 Km loop around South Island. The run down the side of Lake Hawea was unreal.

The sound of that Honda was just crap. About the same as a lazy old Tiger Moth. Couldn't they tune those pipes up in a sound chamber? I'm not very impressed but who cares what I think?

So, once again, if you want the old look in the new style why not just buy a nice 1969 K0 and be done with it?

dangerous

30th July 2010, 06:06

So, once again, if you want the old look in the new style why not just buy a nice 1969 K0 and be done with it?
Did you see the one that came up on trademe last night... 15k, tiz a minter tho

T.W.R

30th July 2010, 06:45

well...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=305987891 the possibilitys are endless, 7k and a decent deal IMO... so, strip it to the bear nakidness like the CB, Lemans it or even... 'sport monza it Yip its a kit for a v11.214057

That thing has been on TM for over a year :yes:

Modern Guzzis are too sanitised, even with the quick ride I had on your one; it just didn't have the feel or character of the early ones....dont get me wrong though, it's still a bloody nice ride and no doubt would run circles around any of it's stable bretheren from years gone by :yes: but the raw lumpiness has been flushed out of the system.

the sound of an angry triple is truly addictive and due to the student lifestyle and a new mortgage I can't afford both.

You'd have to sell the T'bird and get something from italy :msn-wink:

This would be a easy rebuild for a taste of what CBs were about

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Tourers/auction-284749576.htm

shrub

30th July 2010, 07:39

That thing has been on TM for over a year :yes:

Modern Guzzis are too sanitised, even with the quick ride I had on your one; it just didn't have the feel or character of the early ones....dont get me wrong though, it's still a bloody nice ride and no doubt would run circles around any of it's stable bretheren from years gone by :yes: but the raw lumpiness has been flushed out of the system.

You'd have to sell the T'bird and get something from italy :msn-wink:

This would be a easy rebuild for a taste of what CBs were about

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Tourers/auction-284749576.htm

Sell the T Bird? Nooooooo.........

I kind of agree about the new Guzzis being a little sanitized. If my wrists and back permitted I'd be into a Mk2 or Mk3 Le Mans in a second, and have considered getting a T3 or similar and building something in the shed - maybe next winter when I'm not a student making do on 20 hours a week work.

You're right about the CB1100R - picking up a damaged new CB would be the way forward.

T.W.R

30th July 2010, 08:05

Sell the T Bird? Nooooooo......... .

Park it up & use for special occasions only :yes: and still get a italian triple or keep using it, get another T'bird crank and get it rebuilt to 180deg firing & fit a custom ignition system to suit :shifty:

I kind of agree about the new Guzzis being a little sanitized. If my wrists and back permitted I'd be into a Mk2 or Mk3 Le Mans in a second, and have considered getting a T3 or similar and building something in the shed - maybe next winter when I'm not a student making do on 20 hours a week work..

A Dr John replica would be a good project :msn-wink: . Ditto about the wrists & back thing..... my mate brought a Green frame 1000s brand new & only had it a couple of months before selling due to those exact issues...almost crippled him within 40mins of riding and there was no-way I was going to fold-up into it :blink:

You're right about the CB1100R - picking up a damaged new CB would be the way forward.

Someone will do it soon enough...retro fit one and turn it into a monster :yes:

rastuscat

30th July 2010, 08:15

This would be a easy rebuild for a taste of what CBs were about

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Tourers/auction-284749576.htm

CB1000R..........now THERE is a bike.

A guy I knew back in 1989 bought one and impressed us all. He rode it a while, and eventually we all said he would kill himself on it. Sadly, 2 weeks later we woz right.

Cool bikes, the big Hondas. If I had a garage and the choice to own 6 bikes, a big Honda would be one of them. I can only have one, and a Honda ain't it.