Back again.Had dinner tonight with the 3 sons and their wives and partners,good time and my eldest and his wife are expecting a child in the next 3 weeks so even at 66 years of age I'm still not a grandparent,but all will change by the end of the month.
Next part of the story.
After Webber tuning and a run in period I was ready to give it a handfull.
Dramas.It kept jumping out of gear,2nd,3rd,4th and 5th.Back to the work bench and remove the motor to see if anything wrong in the gearbox.I couldn't see any problems so just to be sure I had the dogs on the gears back cut.Put it all back together and still the same problem.I was a bit bushed and as a last resort I went to the local Honda importer (Mayfair Motors in Melbourne) to see if they could help.They had no idea but they did say they would get in touch with Honda Japan to see if they could help.Honda Japan's answer was to fill in with weld the detent arm on the gear change mechanism where the spring connects and to reduce the diameter of the wheel or roller or whatever you call it on the detent by 1mm.BINGO no more gearchange problems.
After a lot of around town riding and the occasional trip to Bendigo to see my parents several of my mates and I decided to head to Bathurst NSW for the Australian GP held every Easter,this was April 1975.
Had a great ride up,enjoyed the racing and then decided on a different way to go back to Melbourne,through the mountains from Bathurst to Mittagong via the dirt roads.Started off OK but before long the rain started bucketing down and about halfway to Mittagong the bike came to a stop,no spark.Because there was no electric starter motor fitted I had gone with a system from Sebring (I think that was their name) that replaced the regulator,rectifier and battery,worked good up until then.So for the next 60 odd miles I had a mate tow me with his bike with a rope from the back of his bike to one of the fork legs on my bike,very hairy in the rain and the mud.Any way we made it without any mishaps.I left the bike at the Police station and caught the bus back to Melbourne,the following weekend I again caught the bus back to Mittagong with regulator,rectifier and battery,fitted the parts and rode home to Melbourne.These were the only problems I had with the bike.
I havn't mentioned it before but the bike on a trip would get approx.75mpg (Imperial gallons are used in Australia).
The story doesn"t have much more to go but I will finish up tomorrow.
I will attach a few more photo's but because I had a bit of trouble initially I might do them seperately.
Bye for now
Regards
Colin Edwards
