My grandpa has a 1974 and a 1976 Honda dirt bike just like this and I was needing to figure out how to clean the carb on it, so thanks for the video it was a really big help to me.
You are the a magic man, Mustie1. What a great job. That bike for sure does not need re-jetting like the moped. That new project, on the flatbed, oh my.
As the truck backs down the driveway...Musties 1905 manure spreader arrives for the rat rod treatment! I am Eagerly awaiting the double cab paint job. Give us some nice close shots of the panel work. Inside and out! Good channel content Mustie1.
Great video! I had a SL70 and a SL100 as a kid. They were a lot of fun. We would ride wheelies and jump dirt mounds in the gravel bank. Seemed to be a cycle of break it, fix it, break it, fix it!
Just had an old guy down the road give me 1 tonight!! And he was going to restore it so every part it needs is brand new in boxes !! I actually went to the bank and gave him 50 bucks cuz I didn't feel right just taking it for free what a score !
I cant count the times that I have done exactly what you have done here... Its basically the recipe for resurrection on all bikes left to sit for decades. Same goes for using Cream to bring back the gas tank. You have a great bike here...runs just like a Honda should! Nice job.
Enjoyed the video, worked at the local Honda/BSA/Yamaha shop from '68 to '70 as a mechanic. I remember the SL 90, 175, and the 350, but not this model. Nice survivor, and well worth repairing.
I had an old (but not quite that old) Honda single when I was a kid. The exhaust held on the same, but it also had what looked like a copper o-ring - actually a crushable, one-time use gasket - that goes between the end of the pipe and the head. If yours also needs one, there might be a little ring indentation in the head that it would sit in (presumably so you can't tighten it the pipe too much and destroy the gasket.)
You know you’re old when you remember that bike being new and sitting on it at the dealership and looking at your dad like I’ll rake leaves for 10 years
Two of my machines are '72 SL 250's which I bought twenty years ago from a fellow I had bought a Hodaka Road Toad from a couple of weeks earlier, always wanted the 350 thumper but the 250 is still a very nice ride, especially when compared to my '64 CL 72 250 and '66 CL 77 305 Scramblers which weigh close to twice as much but have always been a blast to ride too.
I used to take 'em out of the crate and set 'em up brand new. I had one of these 125s for a while and loved it. I can't imagine why I ever would have gotten rid of it.
@@larrywhalen127 Gotta love how the 305 scramblers(with the 180 degree crankshaft) sound like they are revving Twice as fast as ANY other 4 stroke twin!!!Still have a 64 and a 67. Not as heavy as 500 triumph twin,but still fast enough to keep you entertained!! Thanks for the memories!
I just picked up my very first bike! A 1981 Kawasaki KZ440. So far it seems like a pretty solid bike. I don't really know much about motorcycles but it seems to ride ok. The tires were shot but I'm working on fixing that and a few other issues.
Daer Mustie, not a problem,by the way, I forgot to say how much I enjoy your vids. I have watched all of them, some of them 3 or 4 times. Thank you for all of your time and effort and please keep them coming. Kind regards, Paul, near Liverpool, England.
Hi ya Mustie! Just wanted to say hi and a thumbs up for your video format and way of working. It helps me fight the internal idea of perfection/restoration, as "perfection is the enemy of good enough!" that happens when I am working in my garage
I have a 72 SL125. My dad found it in a scrap metal dumpster back in 1998. Brought it home, rebuilt the carb, new points, etc. fired right up. I rode it in the summers when I was growing up for about 8 years after that. It was already beat to hell when he found it, then my friends and I ran the absolute living crap out of that thing for several more years. It burned oil about as fast as you could pour it in, so we often ran it with NO OIL! Never did blow it up, it finally lost spark and is still sitting in my basement. It's unbelievable how tough these things are.
I may try to get it running again one of these days. Probably won't take much. It's not worth restoring, probably not even a good parts bike it's so far gone.
Those Hondas were tough. Like the slant 6. You could run it with no oil and it would last a while. Remember the commercials for, what was it, "Slick 50"? They ran a Mopar 6 and poured water on the rockers. Made "Slick 50" look pretty good!
48 years old that bike now is shed gleaming mate that puts most new bikes to shame and its simplistic desging of engine and offcourse one of the best engines ever produced
Hey Mustie, I watch most of your videos and appreciate them. Hope you could do some maintenance videos - like cleaning egr, oxygen sensors, starter, altenater, anything. I do my own work always buy I've got one project I've put off forever. Tdi timing belt, water pump assembly. If I lived closer I'd bring it over lol.
805ROADKING swing on over to Darren's place and make this a water cooled Honda! Collaborative effort, don't you know. Watch all of both you guys videos.
mustie your vids gave me the confidence to sort my petrol garden vac /blower. clean it thoroughly change perished fuel lines, clean carb new plug air filter etc. not all plain sailng but felt chuffed when it ran afterwards.. keep it up dude
Hi sir! I have this very bike and it definitely needs a whole Lotta lovin' for sure. Cool bike. I never messed with a 6 volt system and gas tank rusted so bad put a finger thru it. It ought to be interesting. I
Yamaha, honda and suzuki all make combustion chamber cleaner works excellent on carbs. Takes a hour tops on the worst gumed up carbs and safe on plastic and rubber parts.
I once picked up a CB200 twin for £50 because it wouldn't run but these Hondas won't start or run if the batteryis junked. Simp!y bought a new battery and it started first kick. Guy then wanted his bike back for the same £50!!! No way.
Steven Booth ya same thing for a 2001 Polaris sportsman 90 took out battery becuase it was junk but machine wouldn’t kick start without the battery hooked up to the terminals even though the battery was junk it’s probably some stupid safety precaution that a lot of machines have
Picked up a set of those hose pliers a couple weeks ago from HF after seeing them in one of your other videos. They still carry them, and a set of three was like $14. They are VERY useful! Thanks for the heads up on those!
Looks like they are item number 37909 - $14.99. "Long Reach Hose Grip Pliers, 3 pieces." Next time I'm at my local HF I'll have to see if I can pick up a set.
Those batteries you are getting at the scrapyard look like typical fire alarm panel backup power batteries.... They seem like they will work, but they will die quickly.... The makers of those panels know that code requires them to be changed, so they typically source batteries that last "just a little longer than necessary"....
You should make a "standardized" old motor renewal process: Step 1: Take of the carb and let it soak in parts cleaner Step 2: While that's soaking, assess the rest of the bike
For his own benefit, he could do some marketing of products he use on a regular base (if your intention is to help him get more income). Other than that, I prefer independent youtube creators rather than people tied up to some formulaic stuff.
Yes that's the problem, it takes too long and costs too much to film all of the little things that we like to see so things have to be cut out or corners have to be cut. That's one of the reasons why Ed china left wheeler dealers,
I had a Chinese pit bike that had a 125 honda clone engine that looked almost identical to this engine. Now I know what bike the clone was based off of! ( :
I owned a Honda CB125. The timing chain got so lose that it either jumped off or jumped position. The result was the piston slammed into a valve snapped it off and the valve punched a hole in the top of the piston. When I removed the exhaust to my horror I found the valve head just sitting there. :-(
Finds evidence of critter inhabitance "Good thing we didn't try to start it" Crazy coincidence, I was thinking "Hmmm funny that he didn't squirt some gas in it and try to fire it up" lol... it's that Mustie1 sixth sense, it was a tingling! ; D
Tens of thousands of bikes scrapped and melted down through the years because people didn't know or have the wherewithal to trouble shoot the problem(s). Looking forward to the "first" ride.
Loving your videos and have watched so many of the last couple of days. What do you use as your camera and to edit ??? or is it a simple matter of pausing things? Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Thanks! My favorite of yours, so far. I plan to revive a 1984 Honda XR80 that has been parked in a barn for the past 25+ years. New carb is only ~$15 on ebay. Carb kit is ~$8. Also will buy a new spark plug and petcock. Hoping the points are still good. Exterior of gas tank is in better shape than that one, but interior is very crusty.
BCRBCRBCRBCRBCRBCR just do the electrolysis thing to the tank, did it to my rusty xt tank and it's worked great. Did a few rounds of it for a few hours and got the inside of the tank fairly clean.
Just found your vids yesterday cant say how many i have watched so far but have learnt a lot from them stuff i didn't think of trying been playing around with small motors since i was a kid i enjoy watching your stuff i can learn from you and have and i wish i had your work shop lol
I think you've mentioned this before but what are your nifty tie downs called/what do I search for to find them? THANKS! Any idea what would cause that color (greenish?) corrosion in the carb? Wow, that's really corroded. Haven't see the whole video but will be very interested in how well the Gunk cleans it all up. RichE
Totally appreciate your efforts to make us feel like we're with you in person and the after video clips showing those aforementioned efforts. Enough with the brown nosing, that honda is BOSS can't wait to see vids of you ripping it in a pit or down the road to the cabin
Been watching videos on this channel for a week or two now, looking back through older uploads and playlists. What a great channel, a definite favourite. Will not be missing any future videos - addictive viewing for those of us who thrive on this stuff.
Sweet score. Interesting fact on the older than 99 vin check. Had one of those many moons ago when I had my apartment. Still have the title. Hmm. Some liked it more then me I guess. No garage, optional insurance. Grr. Freggin thieves!
If that exhaust canister is completely gutted, it would be pretty easy to build an insertable baffle for it. Doing so would save you some bucks and you could design it to be almost as quiet as you wish.
That bike was a dream of mine when I was in high school. I had a Bridgestone 90 that I was appreciative of as a gift from my Dad - but those Hondas were perfect for scooting around trails and getting there. Such a perfectly engineered bike for the time.
My grandpa has a 1974 and a 1976 Honda dirt bike just like this and I was needing to figure out how to clean the carb on it, so thanks for the video it was a really big help to me.
love watching your videos because in the 80s I was doing exactly the same thing as you are doing now...
You are the a magic man, Mustie1. What a great job. That bike for sure does not need re-jetting like the moped. That new project, on the flatbed, oh my.
As the truck backs down the driveway...Musties 1905 manure spreader arrives for the rat rod treatment!
I am Eagerly awaiting the double cab paint job. Give us some nice close shots of the panel work. Inside and out!
Good channel content Mustie1.
a sl 125 was my very first bike. a neighbor who was moving gave it to me in 1980. rode it for years.
Great video! I had a SL70 and a SL100 as a kid. They were a lot of fun. We would ride wheelies and jump dirt mounds in the gravel bank. Seemed to be a cycle of break it, fix it, break it, fix it!
Awesome. I like how you don't make a big deal out of what appear to be major issues, like that bent/twisted swing arm. Thanks, Mustie.
Just had an old guy down the road give me 1 tonight!! And he was going to restore it so every part it needs is brand new in boxes !! I actually went to the bank and gave him 50 bucks cuz I didn't feel right just taking it for free what a score !
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I had 74 model in 1977 when I was 17 and those exhaust collets were a pain for me too.
I cant count the times that I have done exactly what you have done here... Its basically the recipe for resurrection on all bikes left to sit for decades. Same goes for using Cream to bring back the gas tank. You have a great bike here...runs just like a Honda should! Nice job.
Enjoyed the video, worked at the local Honda/BSA/Yamaha shop from '68 to '70 as a mechanic. I remember the SL 90, 175, and the 350, but not this model. Nice survivor, and well worth repairing.
Was going to wait until later this evening before I started a Mustie vid marathon but, well, here we are
It's too addictive!
Agreed. I get the e-mail notification at about 6am CDT and immediately wanted to start watching...but since I was already at work...I couldn't...
i had to wait till i got ho e from work too :(
hey Hand Tool Rescue....thought you might be here..hope you put out some more videos soon....
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Never seen someone work so hard to start something without a carb. Awesome channel. Keep it going please.
I had an old (but not quite that old) Honda single when I was a kid. The exhaust held on the same, but it also had what looked like a copper o-ring - actually a crushable, one-time use gasket - that goes between the end of the pipe and the head. If yours also needs one, there might be a little ring indentation in the head that it would sit in (presumably so you can't tighten it the pipe too much and destroy the gasket.)
PS: And 2 second later...you mention the copper ring yourself. When will I remember to _finish_ the video before talking? LOL
You know you’re old when you remember that bike being new and sitting on it at the dealership and looking at your dad like I’ll rake leaves for 10 years
These were great bikes, my dad had a 1970 SL 350 that I used to ride, even though I was like 11 and my feet couldn't even reach the ground..
Two of my machines are '72 SL 250's which I bought twenty years ago from a fellow I had bought a Hodaka Road Toad from a couple of weeks earlier, always wanted the 350 thumper but the 250 is still a very nice ride, especially when compared to my '64 CL 72 250 and '66 CL 77 305 Scramblers which weigh close to twice as much but have always been a blast to ride too.
I used to take 'em out of the crate and set 'em up brand new. I had one of these 125s for a while and loved it. I can't imagine why I ever would have gotten rid of it.
Me too
@@larrywhalen127 Gotta love how the 305 scramblers(with the 180 degree crankshaft) sound like they are revving Twice as fast as ANY other 4 stroke twin!!!Still have a 64 and a 67. Not as heavy as 500 triumph twin,but still fast enough to keep you entertained!! Thanks for the memories!
I need this bike. My dad has one, I learned to ride on it. His has a tank from a newer bike though.
Spent a load of time on one of these in the mud on a farm when I was a young pup...Great fun
My first ripper, bought 30 yrs ago, not not suspension but fun!
I just picked up my very first bike! A 1981 Kawasaki KZ440. So far it seems like a pretty solid bike. I don't really know much about motorcycles but it seems to ride ok. The tires were shot but I'm working on fixing that and a few other issues.
Daer Mustie, not a problem,by the way, I forgot to say how much I enjoy your vids. I have watched all of them, some of them 3 or 4 times. Thank you for all of your time and effort and please keep them coming. Kind regards, Paul, near Liverpool, England.
Hi ya Mustie! Just wanted to say hi and a thumbs up for your video format and way of working. It helps me fight the internal idea of perfection/restoration, as "perfection is the enemy of good enough!" that happens when I am working in my garage
I have a 72 SL125. My dad found it in a scrap metal dumpster back in 1998. Brought it home, rebuilt the carb, new points, etc. fired right up. I rode it in the summers when I was growing up for about 8 years after that. It was already beat to hell when he found it, then my friends and I ran the absolute living crap out of that thing for several more years. It burned oil about as fast as you could pour it in, so we often ran it with NO OIL! Never did blow it up, it finally lost spark and is still sitting in my basement. It's unbelievable how tough these things are.
after all you did to it, perhaps it has earned some TLC from you.
I may try to get it running again one of these days. Probably won't take much. It's not worth restoring, probably not even a good parts bike it's so far gone.
Only if you want to, man I can fucking smell the memories.
Those Hondas were tough. Like the slant 6. You could run it with no oil and it would last a while. Remember the commercials for, what was it, "Slick 50"? They ran a Mopar 6 and poured water on the rockers. Made "Slick 50" look pretty good!
MavDude you want to sale it
48 years old that bike now is shed gleaming mate that puts most new bikes to shame and its simplistic desging of engine and offcourse one of the best engines ever produced
it sounds like it is only running on one cylinder
ur kidding right
lol u funny
so that is why it had that weird sound. good to know.
Its a 125cc...only has one cylinder and marks was joking
I HOPE
I love it bro
You are like the Paul Soars Jnr of mechanics. I love your videos.
Hey Mustie, I watch most of your videos and appreciate them. Hope you could do some maintenance videos - like cleaning egr, oxygen sensors, starter, altenater, anything. I do my own work always buy I've got one project I've put off forever. Tdi timing belt, water pump assembly. If I lived closer I'd bring it over lol.
Never a doubt Mate, runs great!! I told ya the file was your Friend!!☺
That and a body panel hammer, oh and carb cleaner.
805ROADKING swing on over to Darren's place and make this a water cooled Honda! Collaborative effort, don't you know. Watch all of both you guys videos.
mustie your vids gave me the confidence to sort my petrol garden vac /blower. clean it thoroughly change perished fuel lines, clean carb new plug air filter etc. not all plain sailng but felt chuffed when it ran afterwards.. keep it up dude
Ya Buddy, watching all the way. learning along the way, Thank you for the sneak peek lol Cheers Dizzy.
One of the best channels on TH-cam! Thanks Mustie 1
nice Job man I hope to find a bike like that youre film is nice and hope to see this week a New film
Lots of us watchers thinking the same, get some quality time to watch this!
That exhaust is cool..... I like the little megaphone
Hi sir! I have this very bike and it definitely needs a whole Lotta lovin' for sure. Cool bike. I never messed with a 6 volt system and gas tank rusted so bad put a finger thru it. It ought to be interesting.
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Honda's never die. Great little bike.
Took a little effort to get errrr going , Not bad for a yard sale . biggest thing looks like the tank .
Yamaha, honda and suzuki all make combustion chamber cleaner works excellent on carbs. Takes a hour tops on the worst gumed up carbs and safe on plastic and rubber parts.
i had one, 19 72 modle ,i go t it in 80 s very light bi ke ,had lots of funn ov the trake and on roads ,nice
Awesome! cant wait to see it getting the "Mustie" treatment. I love watching this channel.
You should do a video showing how you're able to obtain parts for these golden oldies.
I once picked up a CB200 twin for £50 because it wouldn't run but these Hondas won't start or run if the batteryis junked. Simp!y bought a new battery and it started first kick. Guy then wanted his bike back for the same £50!!! No way.
Steven Booth ya same thing for a 2001 Polaris sportsman 90 took out battery becuase it was junk but machine wouldn’t kick start without the battery hooked up to the terminals even though the battery was junk it’s probably some stupid safety precaution that a lot of machines have
U just can't kill a Honda. That is why the dealers won't work on anything more than 7 years old. Too bad Toyota didn't make motorcycles.
Steven Holladay I like to think of yamaha as the Toyota of motorcycles
I love the style of these bikes
Only a Honda from the 70s would start and run like that after a long lay up!
Picked up a set of those hose pliers a couple weeks ago from HF after seeing them in one of your other videos. They still carry them, and a set of three was like $14. They are VERY useful! Thanks for the heads up on those!
I've seen them advertised elsewhere as 'Plug-boot pliers', so that might help in searching for them.
Looks like they are item number 37909 - $14.99. "Long Reach Hose Grip Pliers, 3 pieces." Next time I'm at my local HF I'll have to see if I can pick up a set.
Ah cool, that'll help people find them too!
Just found this channel.I'm totally hooked.Well done.
i like that vin law, sounds way easier then what i have to do in new jersey, thats mouse poison btw.
I would love to have one of these.
Awesome tool collection.
Those batteries you are getting at the scrapyard look like typical fire alarm panel backup power batteries.... They seem like they will work, but they will die quickly.... The makers of those panels know that code requires them to be changed, so they typically source batteries that last "just a little longer than necessary"....
Nice old bike good job
You should make a "standardized" old motor renewal process:
Step 1: Take of the carb and let it soak in parts cleaner
Step 2: While that's soaking, assess the rest of the bike
Just checked for a new video on your channel. And Bam! Found you by mistake and can't get enough!
visia101y He needs to upload about 6 a day...lol
It was stored inside, looks good--
Love the videos mustie!! Keep it up and keep em coming.
Always liked that model
Another cool video. All those in favor of mustie getting his own tv show on the velocity channel, say AYE.
For his own benefit, he could do some marketing of products he use on a regular base (if your intention is to help him get more income). Other than that, I prefer independent youtube creators rather than people tied up to some formulaic stuff.
Please not. I like this channel how it is just now. No bullshit, no ad, just pure mechanical joy.
I lost a lot of respect for velocity when they lost Edd China, not that I cared too much for them to begin with.
Please no.... A TV network would absolutely cripple content like this. Filing points and cleaning gas tanks is "too boring" for advertisers.
Yes that's the problem, it takes too long and costs too much to film all of the little things that we like to see so things have to be cut out or corners have to be cut. That's one of the reasons why Ed china left wheeler dealers,
Left side cover available on Ebay ex THailand includes decal
No one asks what you paid for it.
Great content.
Keep up the good work.
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I like to use a little gas to free up carb stuff like the baskets
That is beautiful machine :)
nice bike and also nice vids keep up the good work
That looks like a Raleigh chopper in the background 😀
Perfect entertainment on a rainy German afternoon. lol Enjoyed seeing the bike resurrected. Thanks for the video!
+Bruce Boscek I was thinking the same, greetings from the Netherlands.
You can buy those hose plyers on amazon.
How's this guy going?? As a kid, after an xl75, this was my first big boy bike! Really happy to see someone like your good self giving it some love!
Almost 50K subs Mustie.
Solid channel.
over 160k now!
@@thijsiphone 199 K tonight
@Dirtyd23 258k now. I just love it when a small channel takes off like this.
I had a Chinese pit bike that had a 125 honda clone engine that looked almost identical to this engine. Now I know what bike the clone was based off of! ( :
Dude, the eighties called, they want their jeans back
I owned a Honda CB125.
The timing chain got so lose that it either jumped off or jumped position. The result was the piston slammed into a valve snapped it off and the valve punched a hole in the top of the piston. When I removed the exhaust to my horror I found the valve head just sitting there. :-(
Finds evidence of critter inhabitance "Good thing we didn't try to start it" Crazy coincidence, I was thinking "Hmmm funny that he didn't squirt some gas in it and try to fire it up" lol... it's that Mustie1 sixth sense, it was a tingling! ; D
That thumper is music to my ears lol had the S90 Honda in high school , this was the golden years of Honda IMHO :) , what a great project .
Mustie1 👍 I'm watching this an it's Monday 31st 2021
Did that motor get to hot to make the copper ring malform to the exhaust like that? Or just age? It didn't have very many miles on it.
Had one back in the day got my bike licence on it Rode it to high school Do I feel old?
What if you use a coffee filter or a micro fiber towel, to filter your carb cleaner. When it gets real bad.
Just a thought.
love the "let's make a slight adjustment" with that 2 meters long pipe part xD laughed so hard!
Tens of thousands of bikes scrapped and melted down through the years because people didn't know or have the wherewithal to trouble shoot the problem(s). Looking forward to the "first" ride.
Loving your videos and have watched so many of the last couple of days. What do you use as your camera and to edit ??? or is it a simple matter of pausing things? Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
what a lovely bike
Thanks! My favorite of yours, so far.
I plan to revive a 1984 Honda XR80 that has been parked in a barn for the past 25+ years. New carb is only ~$15 on ebay. Carb kit is ~$8. Also will buy a new spark plug and petcock. Hoping the points are still good. Exterior of gas tank is in better shape than that one, but interior is very crusty.
BCRBCRBCRBCRBCRBCR just do the electrolysis thing to the tank, did it to my rusty xt tank and it's worked great. Did a few rounds of it for a few hours and got the inside of the tank fairly clean.
Hey Mustie, your channel is taken off quite well the last couple of weeks eh :D
what is that contraption your wearing on your head ? i mean i have a "head light" but that looks like something doc brown might have invented..
Great video and a nice little runner now. Just by the way you sound like a young Henry Fonda!!
Honda’s are so tough, she still idles like a Swiss watch after years of neglect
Just found your vids yesterday cant say how many i have watched so far but have learnt a lot from them stuff i didn't think of trying been playing around with small motors since i was a kid i enjoy watching your stuff i can learn from you and have and i wish i had your work shop lol
I think you've mentioned this before but what are your nifty tie downs called/what do I search for to find them?
THANKS!
Any idea what would cause that color (greenish?) corrosion in the carb? Wow, that's really corroded. Haven't see the whole video but will be very interested in how well the Gunk cleans it all up.
RichE
Cool footage.. Great channel content.. Subbed!
I can't think of a better way to spend a spair hour than with Mustie tinkering with bikes.
Dude, you should have 10x the subscribers that you do. Definitely a hidden gem..
woohoo! a 50 minutes episode about wrenching on a bike! great way to start my day.
Hey mate where did you get motorbike jack that's amazing
I keep asking my doc to install a third arm; but no luck.
Mustie you are too far away for me to reach into the screen and give you a hand.
Totally appreciate your efforts to make us feel like we're with you in person and the after video clips showing those aforementioned efforts. Enough with the brown nosing, that honda is BOSS can't wait to see vids of you ripping it in a pit or down the road to the cabin
Been watching videos on this channel for a week or two now, looking back through older uploads and playlists. What a great channel, a definite favourite. Will not be missing any future videos - addictive viewing for those of us who thrive on this stuff.
thanks for watching
Sweet score. Interesting fact on the older than 99 vin check. Had one of those many moons ago when I had my apartment. Still have the title. Hmm. Some liked it more then me I guess. No garage, optional insurance. Grr. Freggin thieves!
Awesome ride, cant wait to see some power slides on the dirt with that.
If that exhaust canister is completely gutted, it would be pretty easy to build an insertable baffle for it. Doing so would save you some bucks and you could design it to be almost as quiet as you wish.
Bikes N Bugs two of my favorite topics and all the other good stuff.
That bike was a dream of mine when I was in high school. I had a Bridgestone 90 that I was appreciative of as a gift from my Dad - but those Hondas were perfect for scooting around trails and getting there. Such a perfectly engineered bike for the time.