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Offline hymodyne

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Hondas in Africa
« on: January 17, 2006, 02:46:51 AM »
Greetings all,

I just got back from a brief trip to Ghana, Africa with a group of my students, where I saw an abundance of Hondas still on the road.

mostly smaller bikes, but a few 750's and goldwings thoughout the western coast of the country.

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2006, 03:15:10 AM »
Hym,
I also saw a few old small cc Hondas in SA, and Egypt. It seems that they survive well in the warmer climates and they are reliable and cheap to run. I wonder why there aren't any people from Africa on the forum??
Why were you in GHana? sounds like an interesting trip.
Jim.
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Offline skamania19

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2006, 03:41:11 AM »
Jim,
   I was in contact with one member from South Africa but now I don't remember what his name was. I think he was on the Frappr map.
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2006, 03:43:05 AM »
I do remember someone from Africa on the forum, maybe he/she will post something?
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Offline skamania19

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2006, 03:48:04 AM »
When I was in South Africa about five years ago I saw quite a few Beemers around Johannesburg and Mozambique had lots of the little moped type bikes, probably because Mozambique is such a poor nation. Wasn't into Hondas at the time so I don't recall those in either place. 
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2006, 04:32:26 AM »
BMW is big in SA, they have a big plant there which I assume builds cars, not sure if they build any bikes there? When you get out of Joberg you see all types of old bikes, all small engines as they are cheaper to run. Too dangerous in most places to be sitting on an expensive bike, IMHO.
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2006, 12:45:38 PM »
Greetings from South Africa.  I think I am the only member from this part of the world.  I am into the CB400 Fours mostly, don't see to many on the roads these days, more 750's.
Yes BMW is a big company here, we have quite a few car manufacturing plants but no bikes are made here, in fact if you drive a BMW in your part of the world you will probably find that a lot of the parts are made in SA.

Drop by my web site to see what I do to 400 Fours and more.

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2006, 01:04:23 PM »
There is also Paul in South Africa (from the old SOHC mailing list) -has a CB750. Not quite sure where he is though, although he did send me this web page from his local paper...I have his email address should you be interested.
Goes by the name "Frogspawn"


> Just for curiousity sake here's the home page of our local newspaper.
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> http://www.iol.co.za/

Cheers
Andy in Boston, USA
 
 
 
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2006, 07:28:17 PM »
Hey ttr nice products! http://www.ttr400.com/

I assume some of your CB350 stuff will work on a CL350?

Hey guys he has rear sets for 750s!!!!!!!!!! Click "more products"
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Offline Terry in Australia

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2006, 08:46:54 PM »
Quote from: ttr400 on January 17, 2006, 12:45:38 PM
Greetings from South Africa.  I think I am the only member from this part of the world.  I am into the CB400 Fours mostly, don't see to many on the roads these days, more 750's.
Yes BMW is a big company here, we have quite a few car manufacturing plants but no bikes are made here, in fact if you drive a BMW in your part of the world you will probably find that a lot of the parts are made in SA.

Drop by my web site to see what I do to 400 Fours and more.

Kevin.

G'Day Kevin, how are you mate? Well there you go, I didn't know you were in SA?

I can vouch for Kevin's work guys, he makes brilliant quality cnc alloy parts, Mike (The Head Scientist) Rieck supplied me with a set of Kevin's beautiful valve inspection covers, and I'm stoked.

Keep up the good work Kevin, (and get rid of those bloody oil coolers, before you ruin my business! :P) Cheers, Terry. ;D
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2006, 10:26:09 PM »
Oh man... I'd love to make my bike look like this: (From Tt's site):

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2006, 12:41:38 AM »
Tried to post a reply, made a cock up somewhere anyway if the reply pops up a couple of times my apolagies.

Thanks for the compliments guys, glad you liked my site.
Andy, so it seems I'm not the only SOHC nut on the African continent, pm his details and I will look him up.
The purple CB400F belongs to Kevin in Seattle ( eaglescall) I visited him last year and the bike looks even better in the flesh, he has done a first class job, there are more pics in the gallery section of this site.
My parts are based around the CB350/400 Fours but I am sure they will also fit some of the other models and also the CB/CL350 twins, Greg at Ohio cafe racers would know more about the Twin fitments. The generic rear set parts on my site should be able to be adapted for most bikes, would need the brackets welded or clamped to the frame to allow the rear set frame plates to bolt on.
I will be developing a bolt on set for the 750 as soon as I can get hold of a bike to measure.

G'day Terry, I am always entertained by your posts.  Oil coolers! never heard of such things!

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2006, 04:13:49 AM »
kevin,is it possible to post pricing on your site,yea you got some neat stuff.
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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2006, 10:50:01 AM »
I am looking into the pricing at the moment.

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Re: Hondas in Africa
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2006, 05:13:08 PM »
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