Honda CB500T caferacer 1976

De motor is mooi geworden en op zo'n vrouw zou ik ook maar zuinig wezen.
Er zijn er niet veel die zo enthousiast meedenken en doen.
Chapeau voor jullie allebei!
 
mooi mooi mooi !!
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Waarom zijn die 500t's eigenlijk zo zeldzaam?
:P :+ ;) *O*

You've bought probably the nastiest Honda twin ever made.

A stroked version of the highly respected CB450, the 500 actually looks
quite nice in a classic sort of way, but for the UK market they decided
to paint it in chocolate brown or orange. With a brown seat. Ooh,
lovely.

Stroking the engine for the extra capacity endowed it with horrible
vibration characteristics. It's OK below 70: above that, it shakes like
an MS victim in an igloo. But that doesn't matter, because....

....the handling is so poor that you won't want to go over 70 anyway.

The engine was fitted with torsion bar valve springs. This *actually*
isn't a bad system, but it adds complexity (imagine a Ducati Desmo
set-up without closing rockers and you're nearly there) and has no
advantages. It also makes setting the valve clearances quite an exacting
job, and if you get it wrong (and many do), then the top end wears out
rapidly.

It also has an electric start system whose screws holding the starter
clutch vibrate out unless Loctited on a regular basis. This causes the
engine to seize as the starter drive locks up.

Best of all is the ignition system. Points, as normal for the era, but
so arranged that you cannot time each cylinder independently. You have
to set the timing for one pot (the left, from memory) and then adjust
the gap for the right by adjusting the gap. Appalling. You can *never*
get the timing spot on, and electronic ignition conversion is the only
answer.

The riding position is appalling, with high wide bars and a
sit-up-and-beg stance. You do a parachute act at speed, except you won't
go fast, for the reasons listed above. Flat bars make a big, big
difference and improve the handling by throwing more weigh on the
otherwise horribly light front end.

The camchain is one of the longest ever seen on a motorcycle, and is the
same size as that fitted to the 175 twin. Unless it's kept religiously
adjusted, it starts to flap, and that means replacement time.

Head gasket failure is not known. You can't lift the head with the
engine in the frame, so it's an engine-out job.

The carbs are those nasty old steel-piston Honda CVs. If the bike has
been standing, you'll never, ever get all the myriad passageways in them
unblocked from the stale petrol without ultrasonic cleaning. Don't even
bother trying the patent remedies.

The UK expert is the bloke behind this website:

http://www.thefang.co.uk

But the links don't seem to work any more!

Dave Silver in the UK has some spares, but I really wouldn't bother.
Give it to someone else.

I restored a CB500T a few years ago

http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex....ges/CB500T.jpg

I wish I hadn't bothered. I just did it out of cussedness, really. It
was a thoroughly unpleasant motorcycle. I hated it. A friend kept
badgering me for it, and I told him he wouldn't like it, but he
insisted, and so for a small amount of money, I let him have it. He soon
hated it too.

Utter, utter crap bike. Don't believe anyone who says it's a classic. It
was crap when it was new, and now it's just old crap.
 
Haha nou gezien de km's die de vrouw er de laatste dagen mee rijd moet ze wel in een hele goeie bui wezen om hem te verkopen.................hij is overgens nog niet eens klaar :P

Ondertussen al wel weer aan wat andere motoren bezig en komende maanden aan een CB500T blok met hopelijk een big-bore kit erin, oliekoeler enz..............kosten zullen bepalend worden zoals meestal -O-
 
Er staat een verhaal in "Motor Revue"deze maand, met de veelzegende titel "Nostalgie met dubbele bodem".
 
We gaan hem zoeken tussen de bladen..............thanks voor de tip *D

Vandaag heeft de T nog een leuke ronde gedaan, met pothelm enz blijft toch nekken omdraaien _O-

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1 van de mooiste caferacers op MF,samen met je vrouw van de hobby genieten.

tja wat kun je daar nog van zeggen,

LUCKY BASTARD :}
 
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Afgelopen weekeind andere koppelingsveren geplaatst en nu koppelt het een stuk lichter, binnenkort maar weer eens een behoorlijk stuk ,,brikken'' *O*
 
hele mooie cafe racer, helemaal in de stijl zoals het hoort.

vraagje....ben benieuwd waar jezelf op rijd.
succes met de hobby
 
Waar ik zelf op rij verschilt van dag tot dag maar meestal op een CBR600 voor woon-werk verkeer, een ZXR750 voor buitenland en circuit, een CX500A van 1978 , een CX500 caferacertje van 1979, off de road of toermotoren..............beetje vol hier ;)
 
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