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I'm puttin' this here for @cafetools because he just bought the same bike... an '80 something GL500. Talk about a tank. How about coast to coast on a $1200 bike.... and not even checking the oil before you leave.

Josh is one of those who you either "get" or you're left scratching head. I think he's a hoot.

Talk about timely... :laugh2:


 
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I'm puttin' this here for @cafetools because he just bought the same bike... an '80 something GL500. Talk about a tank. How about coast to coast on a $1200 bike.... and not even checking the oil before you leave.

Josh is one of those who you either "get" or you're left scratching head. I think he's a hoot.

Talk about timely... :laugh2:

Thanks for getting me motivated to do some stuff to the GL500 I just bought! I need to get motivated to order a tank, side covers, seat (or make my own).
 
The CX was called the Plastic Pig or maybe Plastic Hog
But that type of jokes ended 15 -20 years later when hearing about what mileage was possible.
Solid reputation for a smooth ride
So as I understand It have its enthusiast ...
the cylinders sticking out to the side have that advantage apparently like Guzzis and BMW s do you call them Airheads
Both having good reputation for that type long rides.
Not even heard of anyone needed to rebuild a Moto Guzzi bottom end. But they are not so common

That would be surprising with What i Have Heard if it needs

is assuming the motor doesn't need a rebuild
 
Plastic maggot i believe. Its really not a bad looking bike, but in the early 80s it was more plastic than most.

Yeah, the name plastic maggot stuck here in Britain too.

Terrible start to their career - a bad rash of cam-chain tensioner failures. Honda replaced them all under warranty. Dungbeetle, a guy I knew at St Andrews, had a short-term job at a Honda shop just changing cam-chain tensioners. You basically have to split the bike to get to the bloody thing. First one Dungbeetle and the shop owner did took them three days. But he got quicker with practice until in the end Dungbeetle said he could pull a CX500 apart in his sleep.

But after that, the CX went on to build a reputation as the London despatch riders' bike of choice - cheap, ugly, tough, drop it and you just pick it up again and continue the delivery, and the engines went on forever.
 
I'm puttin' this here for @cafetools because he just bought the same bike... an '80 something GL500. Talk about a tank. How about coast to coast on a $1200 bike.... and not even checking the oil before you leave.

Josh is one of those who you either "get" or you're left scratching head. I think he's a hoot.

Talk about timely... :laugh2:


This one is good if you want to watch a crazy adventure that you don’t want to actually do. It was 49 minutes of solid entertainment for me.
 
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Agreed - I found him to be pretty funny in places (although the constant raspy and yappy voice does wear you down...) - and as for the Honda....well, I guess it is slow and not too pretty, but as an engineer, reliability and durability (which are not the same thing) score high in my book.

...besides, I have always had a thang for shaft drive twins...
 
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Not sure if this has been posted before but some pretty good footage of the inner workings of a carb, albeit rather primitive. Interesting to see all the actual turbulence going on

 
Wanna little bike porn? :smoke:



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