Stuff you have fixed today

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The first new bike I bought was a CX500, yours is a later model with the reversed Comstar wheels.

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I feel old now.

 

[qwakers]

the bike is a bitsa, someone had started to cafe racer it so loads of bit missing, the rest where straight up wrong. the wheels that used to be on it are also in the picture. its being built up as a cx500-c, just because dad like that spec better.

 

[Dapph2]

I made a sound turkey soup ready for bracing us against tomorrows bone chilling weather whilst at Fizzy's unit .

Or finding that fixing, at the end of a long rebuild. Then finding out it was meant to be fitted at the start.
To fit it means a strip down.

$%$£&*& well done that. Years ago I found I had a crank bearing cap bolt hiding under rags in the parts box just as I was about to lower the engine in place

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I made a sound turkey soup ready for bracing us against tomorrows bone chilling weather whilst at Fizzy's unit .

$%$£&*& well done that. Years ago I found I had a crank bearing cap bolt hiding under rags in the parts box just as I was about to lower the engine in place

My good friend, you had engines back then?

 

[Dapph2]

My good friend, you had engines back then?

IIRC April 1968 , still doing my apprenticeship , when at home on leave I stripped , cleaned , examined to the Nth degree & rebuilt my brothers 1958 .. A35 van engine after checking the bores and re ringing the pistons with Duoflex oil scraper rings.