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[Saul]

1 hour ago, Nute said:

Green one does look nice ... but my lawnmower has more power than that. 

Nostalgia is a strong pull, there was a time when that was an aspirational bike.    Looked a sounded like a big bike when we had no hair in our chins.  

[Marcel]

5 hours ago, Saul said:

Tell you what if this wasn't so far away I would have already bought it.  

https://ebay.us/m/RxkNYT

 

What the hell is that thing...lol...the windscreen is taller than the roof of that house...lol. 

[Saul]

7 minutes ago, Marcel said:

What the hell is that thing...lol...the windscreen is taller than the roof of that house...lol. 

That my friend is a Polaris fairing.    Recognise that brand by any chance.  

[Pedro]

4 hours ago, Saul said:

That my friend is a Polaris fairing.    Recognise that brand by any chance.  

He wouldn't, he think Polaris in the inside of warm winter coats!

[Pedro]

4 hours ago, Saul said:

Nostalgia is a strong pull, there was a time when that was an aspirational bike.    Looked a sounded like a big bike when we had no hair in our chins.  

After giving it serious thoughts over drinking whisky after dinner I have concluded you need that green Honda. 

It'll fill an emotional hole while being a third Honda in your fleet. A third Honda is a relevant number of Hondas, it's so because it is green and really slow and pretty.

Also, since it is slow and pretty and old, from the slow side it´ll make you enjoy the rides that you share with people on classic slow bikes a lot more than you do now (because it's naturally slow) , from the green side it´ll look cool, while still providing superiority from being a Honda.

Do it, Redbreast 12 says so!

 

I name it "The Lantern"!

[Saul]

4 hours ago, Pedro said:

After giving it serious thoughts over drinking whisky after dinner I have concluded you need that green Honda. 

It'll fill an emotional hole while being a third Honda in your fleet. A third Honda is a relevant number of Hondas, it's so because it is green and really slow and pretty.

Also, since it is slow and pretty and old, from the slow side it´ll make you enjoy the rides that you share with people on classic slow bikes a lot more than you do now (because it's naturally slow) , from the green side it´ll look cool, while still providing superiority from being a Honda.

Do it, Redbreast 12 says so!

 

I name it "The Lantern"!

Oh dear      You are quite an eloquent drunk though 

[boboneleg]

What I was trying to say @Saul was that a mate wanted to swap bikes for a couple of days as he fancied a XL185 like mine.  I couldn't believe how slow the CB was compared to my bike , I mean it had an extra cylinder compared to mine.

On reflection it may have just been his bike as he wasn't one for servicing , oh and it was the same green as the one in your photo which had faded really badly.

[Saul]

6 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

What I was trying to say @Saul was that a mate wanted to swap bikes for a couple of days as he fancied a XL185 like mine.  I couldn't believe how slow the CB was compared to my bike , I mean it had an extra cylinder compared to mine.

On reflection it may have just been his bike as he wasn't one for servicing , oh and it was the same green as the one in your photo which had faded really badly.

I just want something like I had back in the day for bimbling about. I had a spiffy red CB200 with a Polaris fairing which was, to be fair, dog shit slow compared to my mates 250's so it had to go.  But I have always hankered after another for mooching about on, to ride the same roads that I used to.  I thought I could have been on Ch1p's with that fairing given how rare faired bikes were back then.  I actually really liked my CB200 as a bike and thought it was cool, which it was after getting off a Suzuki AP50.  Nostalgia is a strong pull, I often find myself riding the same route and roads home that I used to  when I was a teenager.  I often do those routes on my CBF and though it's a stodgy old commuter in modern terms, but it feels like the best bike ever on those routes because it is in a different league to what I rode back then.    My Dream bike then was a Suzuki GS550 like a couple of mates had, in direct comparison the CBF is worlds better IMHO.