Africa Twin owners and wannabes thread

[buggsubique]

man, that's crazy....world famous...the bike, not me!

[cooneyr]

man, that's crazy....world famous...the bike, not me!

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The comment from Pitchoupak (26/11/11 at 08:38) is a laugh: -

They should have let her in the mud, and in dozens of future centuries civilizations would have amazed to discover the Africa Twin. it would be intact, a well known honda c it does not move!

Cheers R

[Transalper]

For those with the worn splines under your front sprockets... the Loctite680 trick seems to be working for two of us so far.
Fingers crossed but looks good for

[Eddieb]

I've been cleaning out my pc and have found 3 sets of exploded parts diagrams for the RD03, RD04 and RD07 AT's, and a PDF file of the Haynes service manual for Honda 600 and 650 Transalps and 750 AT's from 1987 to 2002.

Each set of exploded diagrams are just over 1mb each, and the Haynes PDF is about 54mb. Any interest in them before I delete them? the exploded diagrams I can email but the PDF is a bit big. There's also a pdf on modifying or fixing the fuel pump to stop them frying.

Edit: also found other versions of PDF workshop manuals for the RD04 and 07 but they are in German and another I think for the RD07 but it's in polish or something, plus something about fixing the tripmeter but it's also in polish or whatever.

[buggsubique]

the small files wd b good, got the manual alredy in pdf.

[droid]

[jex_the_bug]

just picked up my AT but saddly cant ride it just yet as i scratched my eye at work and cant see anything.
hope i get a ride this evening if i can see.

[buggsubique]

hey, congratulations on your purchase! Was it the one on trademe with the rebuilt side panels? The rd04 is a great bike, im sure youll love it!

[droid]

[whatastoner]

Yes. Welcome to the family. Scratched corneas suck. Believe me, I know.

[Underground]

Yes. Welcome to the family. Scratched corneas suck. Believe me, I know.

Actually there are countries in the world where people would willingly scratch their own corneas in order to obtain an AT

[jex_the_bug]

finally got a ride yestoday but didnt go well.
got 10km or so and the rear wheel bearing went, so slowly ride back home. got some new ones and put it all back together only to find the wheel was tight. so had a think and found there was a spacer missing between the sprocket bearing and the hub one. dont know how long its not been in there but going to give the bloke i got it a call to see if he knows whats happend to it.
any way now got to try and find a new spacer befor i can ride it now. may be il get a ride befor winter comes if im luck

[thepom]

I think you might have bought my old one ,I sold it to a russian in arrowtown. You might want to check the splines on the output shaft,I sent him e mails asking why he sold it so soon and asking how much as I was interested in buying it back but he never got back to at all......top tip......never listen to your partner telling you one of your toy,s has to go.........any way hope you enjoy it as it is the best bike I ever had......

[jex_the_bug]

I think you might have bought my old one ,I sold it to a russian in arrowtown. You might want to check the splines on the output shaft,I sent him e mails asking why he sold it so soon and asking how much as I was interested in buying it back but he never got back to at all......top tip......never listen to your partner telling you one of your toy,s has to go.........any way hope you enjoy it as it is the best bike I ever had......

yep got it from a russian from here. said he was selling it as he needed to buy a taxi or somthing. sold me his helmet to so dont think he plans to get another bike.
bit worried about looking at the output shaft now, plan to have a good look over it in a bit to check everything is ok.

[thepom]

I won,t tell you how much I sold it for but the shaft was ok when I sold it to him,he said he changed the head bearings but I had already done them so I ,m sort of inclined to take a pinch of salt with what he says. I did the fuel pump mod and the reg rec so you should have no worries about reliability as it never let me down ....

[jex_the_bug]

just a few photos of how your old bike looks now, sure its not changed but think im going to give it a little paint and tidy so will keep you posted.
gave it a look over at the weekend and all looks good.

[buggsubique]

nothing like a blank canvas! The ABS fairings are all sandable and with the right primer job should come up well! I need to restore my fairings too. Completly destoyed my left rear on the WAR ride last month... if you want ideas just google search images of africa twins. There are plently of fine examples of basic custom jobs.

[droid]