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11
Aug
11

CB125 is sold!

By crozz 2 Comments
Categories: Honda CB125 and Kawasaki Z400 'Hurricane'

The old 3 legged dog – the 1974 CB125 is sold. We got $610 for it on ebay.  Taking out the $50 fee that ebay charges these days, that leaves us with $560.  Not too bad at all.

Still more faffing around the the caliper.  I decided to hit it with a grinder to try and ‘free up’ the easy out.  That didn’t work.  I then decided to try and hit it with a centre punch and drill again.  After a few good wacks, the easy moved down slightly.  Encouraged by this, I got a nail punch and belted it with all my might.  The easy out moved down about 2mm, and i tried to get a screw driver in there to get the bleeder screw out.  This didn’t work, so I hit it with the punch again.  Then the unthinkable happened.  I broke the tip of the punch inside the bleeder screw.

So we now have a caliper with a broken bleeder screw, with a broken easy out AND a broken nail punch inside it.  How are we doing?

Ona positive, we have a nice set of rubber fork gaiters from ebay;

 

28
Jul
11

New rubber and tough decisions

By crozz Leave a Comment
Categories: Honda CB125 and Kawasaki Z400 'Hurricane'

We waste plenty of time on the Z400 caliper with no progress.   Drilling doesn’t work .. the easy out is too hard.

During the week we did send off the front rim for a brand spanking new tyre.  I have to put in a plug here for Louis from Platinum Motorcycle in East Keilor.  I called Peter Steven a few times to try and get a price on some tyres for the Z400.  All i got was a promise of a call back.  Louis couldn’t have been more helpful in working with us to find the right type of tyre.  Anyway this is the end result … new rubber:

And with the purchase of the new tyres, we have also run out of cash.  The sale of the postie has been great, and it has pretty much funded the entire project to date.  This brings us to 3 leg.  We both love the bike, but it’s only a 125cc and isn’t really the type of bike we want to keep.  The decision is made – 3 leg has to go.  We need the money.

21
Jul
11

brake caliper & 3 leg

By crozz Leave a Comment
Categories: Honda CB125 and Kawasaki Z400 'Hurricane'

I lashed out and bought an expensive easy out from total tools.  The bloke assured me it was the best you could get.

So, after about half an hour of twisting and cursing, the easy out finally ‘bites’ into whats left of the bleeder screw.  The things is in there nice and tight, and then the unthinkable happens.  The easy out snaps off – leaving part of it inside the bleeder screw.  Oh crap.

Short on ideas, we move onto the CB125.  We have christened the bike “3 leg” because it’s alike an old 3 legged dog.  Pretty useless, but you love it anyway.  We treat old 3 leg to a new battery (6 volt) and gear shifter.  We also have the magneto cover (the bloke we bought it off came through).

The bike starts easily, and we have a quick ride up and down the street.  After a few goes – the bike coughs, stutters and stops.  We push it back into the garage, and decide it’s just a fuel issue.  We clean out the carby, and replace the fuel in the tank with fresh stuff.  The old 3 legged dog live on.

07
Jun
11

2 more bikes enter the garage..

By gazzafish Leave a Comment
Categories: Honda CB125 and Kawasaki Z400 'Hurricane'

Sometimes things just ‘work’. This is such a time.. After parting with the Postie on the Friday, we sat down and discussed what we need in a cafe racer. Some guidlines that could help us purchase the right candidate. We came up with the following rules :-

  • Must be over 25 years old so its eligible for Club registration
  • Must have spoked wheels as we believe these simply look better
  • Must be a twin cylinder (again purely because they look more suited to cafe racers..
  • Must be air cooled. Cafe Racers dont have radiators..
  • Must have dual rear shocks again just for looks.
  • Must be chain drive. With an aim to modifications etc, having a shaft drive would simply add too many complications.

So we started our search and believe it or not, only 3 days after the Postie was collected, we found this :-

A 1976 Kawasaki Z400B2 and all for the bargain price of $300!!! It’s not running but it has compression and can’t be anything too radical. So after a quick wash she looked like this :-

Now here’s the clincher. For an extra $80 we managed to purchase a second bike. A non working 1974 Honda  CB125. Now I know this is a single cylinder thumper but for $80, you just can’t leave it behind. After a wash, she came up like this :-

 

So, now we have a Z400 (to keep) and a CB125 to fix up and sell for profit. Let the work begin…

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