Author Topic: Hello from Slovenia - Europe (Read 1170 times)

wikka · « **on:** April 11, 2014, 01:28:06 PM »

Hello to all. My name is Marko and I'm writing from a small country from Europe - it's called Slovenia.
I bought recently a Honda CB 500 Four and it has a 550 engine. The year of production is 1976.

Bye marko

Stev-o · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2014, 03:31:14 PM »

Howdy from Texas Marko! I just bought a CB500 too, wish mine had the 550 engine!

FuZZie · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2014, 03:31:39 PM »

Welcome, can you post up a picture or two?

70CB750 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2014, 05:42:42 PM »

Welcome!

BobbyR · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2014, 07:44:27 PM »

Hi from New York Marko

wikka · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2014, 07:52:19 AM »

Hello to all :-)

I will certainly post some pictures in the evening (CET) :-)

see ya!

Bye from Slovenia

Marko

dusterdude · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2014, 09:24:47 AM »

Hello marko!!!

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wikka · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2014, 01:56:36 PM »

Here's some pictures of my bike :-)

Marko

Stev-o · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2014, 02:10:51 PM »

Looks great. Are those parts chrome or polished?
Really like the cool Euro tailight/sigals...

BobbyR · « **Reply #9 on:** April 12, 2014, 03:48:44 PM »

Nice looking bike.

FuZZie · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2014, 04:03:10 PM »

That is cool, condition is great!

wikka · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2014, 12:53:29 AM »

Quote from: Stev-o on April 12, 2014, 02:10:51 PM

Looks great. Are those parts chrome or polished?
Really like the cool Euro tailight/sigals...

All the parts that you see in that shining picture are chromed, the exsausts, too :-)

Bye, marko

strynboen · « **Reply #12 on:** April 14, 2014, 12:38:49 PM »

its german rear lights..have you importet it from germany..they have many nice bikes in germany..i bay many parts there..denmark are a small marked for old vintage mc..

its a very nice bike you have..mutch better then my 550 k3 1978

wikka · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2014, 11:43:29 PM »

Hello, yes this bike was produced for the German market originally... but it'is in Slovenia for many years now... it has allready at least two Slovene owners before it comes to me.

We in Slovenia do not have many of this japanese bikes, because 20 years ago we were still a socialistic-komunistic, very closed country and economic market. It was forbiden to import foreign things in our country... so we do not have many of this bikes in Slovenia (and ex Yugoslavia, too).

I had a lot of work with my Honda, especially with the exsaust pipes... but it was certainly worth it

bye Marko

strynboen · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:01:47 AM »

fantastic job velding this exhosts..did you use oxygen gas velding...is croming expensive dovn in slovenia..
ex tjesolvakia make me alvays think of tintin..a lot of the stories vas going in this areia..some of the land names are almost right..
ve have a lot of peapel mowing to denmark..at the civil war..and in the 1960 vhen the russian took over kontroll..
many vas steel workers..who got job in danish windmill factoryes as welders..

70CB750 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:20:10 AM »

Slovenia was part of Jugoslavia, not Czechoslovakia.

Also Russians never really took control of Jugoslavia, Tito did not let them. Russians invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 - that's probably what you mean

Sorry for the lesson, just couldn't help myself.

strynboen · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2014, 08:24:12 AM »

ha :)my geografi of eastern europa are not perfekt...and history..but it still have my interest..a lot are thanged the last 15 years...
yes i mean joguslavien as ve call it in denmark...or did...it gone now..
sorry i invadet the vrong land...

FuZZie · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2014, 02:05:52 PM »

I wish you'd have done a tread on your experience redoing the mufflers.
Nice results looks like new!

wikka · « **Reply #18 on:** April 16, 2014, 04:10:00 AM »

My exhausts were not looking well and at the inside I heard something rumbles…

I decided to open them and adjust them.

1.   So I first cut off the pipes. Then, with a jigsaw I opened the mufflers. It was a dirty and a slow job. Dirty because of the carbon blacks that spread in the garage.

At the inside a discovered that half of the muffler was broken because of the rust and it was falling apart and that rumbles at the inside when I was shaking them.

2.   Then I cut off the damaged part of the muffler and instead of that I welded in only a perforated pipe long about 35 centimeters. After doing that I welded back the “cover” of the muffler.

3.   Then the last step has to be done on the motorbike. To have the pipes perfect in line with the muffler you have to put both parts on the motorbike frame and weld it together.

It is not a big engineering but it was certainly interesting. At the end we polished and re-chromed the exhausts.

The polishing and the chroming costs me 220€.

The sound is a little bit noisier but I like it!

Bye, marko

70CB750 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 16, 2014, 04:13:41 AM »

Hard core - welding without gloves

Great job on the pipes.

wikka · « **Reply #20 on:** April 16, 2014, 12:34:48 PM »

Quote from: 70CB750 on April 16, 2014, 04:13:41 AM

Hard core - welding without gloves

Great job on the pipes.

Thank you!

Bye from Slovenia

Marko

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