I have yet to find a photo of this, though there was a nice one of an ex-girlfriend sat on it topless.
Hmm, tasteful.
What was it?? A porky Honda CB750F1 engine shoe-horned into a custom rigid frame by some ham-fisted butcher. Thus Chopped Ham & Pork. Or should that be Chopped Pork & Ham ??
I bought it as an unfinished project, off a fairly heavy dude in Stafford, he was just out of nick (for GBH I think). He needded some money quickly, and a mug to take the heap off his hands.
It had Triumph forks off of lord-knows-what, and a KL125 17" front wheel; you can imaginge how effective the front brake was at stopping around 400lb of Soichiro Honda's finest lard on two wheels
I actually got it on the road, even MOT'd. In order to get the ticcket I had to fit a horn; a bicycle horn. You know the type with a rubber bulb you squeeze.
I ran it on and off for a year, though the oil consumption and blue exhaust haze was a continuous nag of something amiss in the engine. When eventually stripped down, I found only about half the cam carrier bolts were fitted, and many of those were loose, since the steel of the bolts had eaten into the ally head casting.
Oh, and the cam-chain tensioner hadn't worked for quite a while, thus the cam-chain tunnel was half eaten away.
Following the purchase of a Harley, I soon lost interst in this shed. It sat in boxes for a couple of years before I sold it to a pal for a fraction of what I'd paid for it. he promtly sold it on for a tidy profit, and it was back in the breeze within a year.
Shows you what can be done if you know what you're doing. Which I didn't!
Hmm, tasteful.
What was it?? A porky Honda CB750F1 engine shoe-horned into a custom rigid frame by some ham-fisted butcher. Thus Chopped Ham & Pork. Or should that be Chopped Pork & Ham ??
I bought it as an unfinished project, off a fairly heavy dude in Stafford, he was just out of nick (for GBH I think). He needded some money quickly, and a mug to take the heap off his hands.
It had Triumph forks off of lord-knows-what, and a KL125 17" front wheel; you can imaginge how effective the front brake was at stopping around 400lb of Soichiro Honda's finest lard on two wheels
I actually got it on the road, even MOT'd. In order to get the ticcket I had to fit a horn; a bicycle horn. You know the type with a rubber bulb you squeeze.
I ran it on and off for a year, though the oil consumption and blue exhaust haze was a continuous nag of something amiss in the engine. When eventually stripped down, I found only about half the cam carrier bolts were fitted, and many of those were loose, since the steel of the bolts had eaten into the ally head casting.
Oh, and the cam-chain tensioner hadn't worked for quite a while, thus the cam-chain tunnel was half eaten away.
Following the purchase of a Harley, I soon lost interst in this shed. It sat in boxes for a couple of years before I sold it to a pal for a fraction of what I'd paid for it. he promtly sold it on for a tidy profit, and it was back in the breeze within a year.
Shows you what can be done if you know what you're doing. Which I didn't!
