Re: New bike
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:57 pm
I'm liking this bike more and more all the time, still got the full Honda toolkit including the sparkplug spanner and chain adjuster, I've been removing the alarm tonight along with the bar weights and levers.
I still can't believe it's 12 years old. :D Everything is so clean and corrosion free I don't think it's seen rain!
There are a few faults, mirrors have cracks in the bottom[0], one of the three points where the two rear seat panels screw together has cracked (the middle of the three), the seat screws aren't original, there are two tiny chips to the paint on the tank, when the alarm was fitted they drilled the LHS seat panel and undertray twice for the alarm[1] and one of the front discs has been replaced with an EBC one[2]. I'm just nit picking really, it's a 12 year old bike and I've seen worse condition 2 week old bikes. Oh and it needs a new clutch cable plus the rubber band that holds the tool kit in is missing!
Also every NC35 I've seen in the flesh doesn't have a reflecter and appear to have the mudguard chopped, the fiche doesn't show the back of the mudguard, I take it there should be a reflecter under the reg plate? I hate the little stick on reflecter you need for the MOT, I think it looks crap. I shall probably take some scrap black anodized alloy I have and make up a reflector bracket for now.
Druid
[0] They're original and in quite good condition apart from that, I'll swap them with the ones on NC35#1 though as I bought them only last year.
[1] It's a dallas keytag so one hole for the LED, one for the keytag sensor.
[2] I missed this when looking over it originally but there was reference to the LHS disc being warped in a service report in 2002, I presume this to have been replaced around then and taking a closer look they're different!
I still can't believe it's 12 years old. :D Everything is so clean and corrosion free I don't think it's seen rain!
There are a few faults, mirrors have cracks in the bottom[0], one of the three points where the two rear seat panels screw together has cracked (the middle of the three), the seat screws aren't original, there are two tiny chips to the paint on the tank, when the alarm was fitted they drilled the LHS seat panel and undertray twice for the alarm[1] and one of the front discs has been replaced with an EBC one[2]. I'm just nit picking really, it's a 12 year old bike and I've seen worse condition 2 week old bikes. Oh and it needs a new clutch cable plus the rubber band that holds the tool kit in is missing!
Also every NC35 I've seen in the flesh doesn't have a reflecter and appear to have the mudguard chopped, the fiche doesn't show the back of the mudguard, I take it there should be a reflecter under the reg plate? I hate the little stick on reflecter you need for the MOT, I think it looks crap. I shall probably take some scrap black anodized alloy I have and make up a reflector bracket for now.
Druid
[0] They're original and in quite good condition apart from that, I'll swap them with the ones on NC35#1 though as I bought them only last year.
[1] It's a dallas keytag so one hole for the LED, one for the keytag sensor.
[2] I missed this when looking over it originally but there was reference to the LHS disc being warped in a service report in 2002, I presume this to have been replaced around then and taking a closer look they're different!
