Author Topic: Just saying hello (Read 2537 times)

Haggis · « **on:** January 07, 2006, 07:59:51 AM »

Been thinking the last couple of months about getting my old CB550F1 back on the road,bought it in 1980 and was used just about every day for five years until i moved on to big Kawasakis,still got them.Over the years i've picked up loads of bits for the sometime rebuild,so looking through this site its given push needed to get on with it ,cheers Iain

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2006, 08:03:53 AM »

Welcome! Don't forget to take some pics (before/after) and good luck with the restoration/resurrection.

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2006, 09:20:18 AM »

Hey Iain, with a spelling like that and a login of "Haggis" I guess you must be a Scot...(?)

Are you in the UK?

GeoffT · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:02:54 AM »

Quote from: Haggis on January 07, 2006, 07:59:51 AM

Been thinking the last couple of months about getting my old CB550F1 back on the road,bought it in 1980 and was used just about every day for five years until i moved on to big Kawasakis,still got them.Over the years i've picked up loads of bits for the sometime rebuild,so looking through this site its given push needed to get on with it ,cheers Iain

Cool another 550 f1 and I think your right Steve, another Scot on the site. Looking forward to pics of the rebuild Iain.

Geoff

Haggis · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2006, 10:20:44 AM »

Hi Steve ,the names a bit of a give away,i'm in central Scotland and only ten mins from some of the best roads you can find,Geoff hoping to get started next month on the bike its one of the "orange"ones,its got comstars on it just now,was feed up looking for standard back wheels when the drum cracked,going to fit a set of Kawasaki wheels off a Z400J,anyway will post some pics as it goes along ,cheers Iain

GeoffT · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2006, 11:44:27 AM »

Quote from: Haggis on January 07, 2006, 10:20:44 AM

Hi Steve ,the names a bit of a give away,i'm in central Scotland and only ten mins from some of the best roads you can find,Geoff hoping to get started next month on the bike its one of the "orange"ones,its got comstars on it just now,was feed up looking for standard back wheels when the drum cracked,going to fit a set of Kawasaki wheels off a Z400J,anyway will post some pics as it goes along ,cheers Iain

Iain, I used to live in Stirling so I know what you mean about the roads. Many moons ago I also worked in Oban for a summer. My fiance, now my wife, was in Greenock. Brilliant fun going up and down the A82 a couple of times a week. My Favourite road was Oban to Fort William though. Most of it single track and hardly any straights. Brilliant fun.

jotor · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2006, 11:54:46 AM »

Welcome from one "orange 550" owner to another--you found the best site to keep you going through your project.

Joe

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2006, 12:11:52 PM »

Bryan Jones (BryanJ) has a fix for cracked rear drums. PM him if you are interested.

mcpuffett · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:52:12 PM »

hello haggis and welcome ,post some pics of your project

mick.

boggy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2006, 01:59:42 PM »

hi if you need any bits got a number if its any good for you may help you 01629823899 in derbyshire got load of old hondas good look( boggy)

Haggis · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2006, 03:14:25 PM »

Thanks for the welcome and offers of help,Geoff i stay down in the Falkirk aera not far from Stirling,one of the roads i like is from Stirling up to Killin round the top end of Loch Tay then head back down through the Sma' Glen then back to Stirling,best done ealy in the morning before the cars wake up .boggy i'll keep it in mind, thanks again

ElCheapo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 10, 2006, 09:25:27 PM »

Quote from: Haggis on January 10, 2006, 03:14:25 PM

Thanks for the welcome and offers of help,Geoff i stay down in the Falkirk aera not far from Stirling,one of the roads i like is from Stirling up to Killin round the top end of Loch Tay then head back down through the Sma' Glen then back to Stirling,best done ealy in the morning before the cars wake up .boggy i'll keep it in mind, thanks again

Sounds like a cool ride, just where the heck is he riding?

Forgive the dumb American

Too manny terrorist threats to think straight

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #12 on:** January 11, 2006, 01:23:08 AM »

Scotland.

Check it out on Google Earth!

ElCheapo · « **Reply #13 on:** January 11, 2006, 07:03:19 AM »

Cool

Haggis · « **Reply #14 on:** January 11, 2006, 10:24:30 AM »

ElCheapo sorry about that forgot this is a world wide site,i'll post some pics of the aera in the coming months when the weather gets better

GeoffT · « **Reply #15 on:** January 11, 2006, 10:54:51 AM »

Haggis, Nice colour on the kwak there

Haggis · « **Reply #16 on:** January 11, 2006, 11:34:53 AM »

Geoff its not what it seems,it started life as a Tony Foale rolling chassis for Honda sohc 750 motor,i bought frame and bits a few years ago,no engine,last year thought it was time to build something with it,fitted a Kawasaki 900 motor that was sitting in the shed,bought a fairing and seat to give it the " endurance racer "look

ElCheapo · « **Reply #17 on:** January 11, 2006, 11:50:19 AM »

Sweet, I always like to see just where others are riding. I too will be posting pics of some of the best riding areas in the Wisconsin area. Many boast about our riding areas. We will see. Problably sooner than later, it is a freakish 43 degrees today

. Too bad I have yet to finish the motor swap in my K5

Will be doing it officially tommorow.

Kevin D · « **Reply #18 on:** January 12, 2006, 03:01:30 PM »

Hi Haggis, not all of the Scots are in Scotland! We have a Highland games here in my town in Michigan each summer, but you won't

see me tossing any telephone poles.

Haggis · « **Reply #19 on:** January 12, 2006, 03:14:19 PM »

Hi Kevin so when did you head over there?,tried" tossing the caber"once and just about got flattend ,just stick to lifting pints now

Kevin D · « **Reply #20 on:** January 12, 2006, 06:12:44 PM »

Haggis, it was a hundred years ago, and it was my grandparents that crossed the Pentland Firth and then the Atlantic.

GeoffT · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2006, 08:32:20 PM »

Hi Kevin - sorry to tell you that there is no Highland Games this side o' the Pentland Firth.

Kevin D · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2006, 03:57:35 PM »

Hi Geoff - No Highland Games? But you do have the Ba'

GeoffT · « **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:01:26 PM »

C'MON THE DOONIES

GeoffT · « **Reply #24 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:10:41 PM »

This years Christmas Ba went to the uppies and New Years went to the doonies. Their first victory in 8 years.
Both the boys (junior) geid doon - that is, went down.

Look here to see what its all about.

http://www.bagame.com/main.html

Geoff

cbjunkie · « **Reply #25 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:12:27 PM »

wave gat a paper doon!

GeoffT · « **Reply #26 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:16:16 PM »

Quote from: cbjunkie on January 13, 2006, 10:12:27 PM

wave gat a paper doon!

cbjunkie · « **Reply #27 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:23:29 PM »

classic mike meyers...

GeoffT · « **Reply #28 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:35:06 PM »

Quote from: cbjunkie on January 13, 2006, 10:23:29 PM

classic mike meyers...

Got Ya - Must confess that was lost on me. But I have heard of Mike Meyers.

cbjunkie · « **Reply #29 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:40:00 PM »

obscure, but very funny, moment from "So I married an Axe Murderer" - Meyers plays his own drunken, t.v. obsessed, Scottish father

translation: "we've got a piper (bag) down!"

i guess you had to be there - sorry about the hijack - i'm only 1/4 Scots.

GeoffT · « **Reply #30 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:44:14 PM »

Quote from: cbjunkie on January 13, 2006, 10:40:00 PM

obscure, but very funny, moment from "So I married an Axe Murderer" - Meyers plays his own drunken, t.v. obsessed, Scottish father

translation: "we've got a piper (bag) down!"

i guess you had to be there - sorry about the hijack - i'm only 1/4 Scot.

Never seen the film yet. But will sure do at some point.

1/4 Scots is good enough. (As lang as the ither 3/4 isnae sassanach)

cbjunkie · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2006, 10:55:03 PM »

busted...there's just no way around it - surry, dude.

long live laphroaig!

...at least for 40 more years...!

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