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Did ya ever nick your dads bike and go for a sedate spin to the beach for ice-cream? has to be sedate, she's 60 years old now, runs like a watch. with loud exhausts coz' them internals have long rotted away :)

Think I'd better bring home some ice-cream.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

God damn, this just reaffirms my complete adoration for the Honda CB series. Absolute perfection.

I love old bikes, back when it was simpler, no electronics (other than ignition system, though magnetos do “just work”, you just don’t have much juice to work with).

Same here, I love the simplicity. I've got a 1980 Honda XR500 (built 08/1979, and yes it still has the 23" front tire and cable-actuated drum brakes) that's going to be my street-legal "apocalypse build". Since the ignition circuit and the lighting circuit run off separate coils, everything essential to the bike physically running has been stripped to the absolute minimum. I stripped out the original lighting wiring entirely except for the coil itself, all replaced with a Tusk Enduro lighting harness that will eventually be tied into the bike's lighting circuit with a 12V reg/rec unit and a capacitor bank. No battery, kickstart-only, and that's the way I like it. Though I'm going to be modifying the Tusk harness as well; it's a bit chunky. I also built an adapter for the lighting circuit that accepts a Milwakuee M18 battery (via a 12V regulator). For science, of course.

The only thing I actually changed about the ignition circuit was adding a key and hiding the wiring, so the average opportunist thief can't just kick it over and go without having to think about it first.