I'm hoping to get my bike back on the road in the Spring, as I haven't ridden it in nearly 2 years now due to not being able to afford the insurance & other costs of riding it legally...

It's a 1982 Honda CX500B (modded, naturally ), but at least it's a bike, & the joys of out accelerating just about everything on the road & outcornering things that should be able to p155 all over it, if the rider knew what they were doing, are not to be underestimated.

Its' official 0-60 time is 5 seconds, but I've found it's more like 4 if you start in 2nd gear so there's only one gear change to 60 ... so you can see there's a certain amount of fun to be had there



But anyway, I digress ... I knew the oil & filter change was overdue & would need doing (along with a few other things), but I wasn't prepared for just how overdue it was.

Normally I'm very good about doing these things on time, but in this case, I made a major oopsie - I just found a note of when I last did it: 8th October 1996. Oops

dag, yo. And you talk about the git that never changed his oil...

Quote: Originally posted by KayinStorm dag, yo. And you talk about the git that never changed his oil...

Well, in my defence I did check it regularly ... it still hardly looks used - the advantage of a cold blooded V twin with a truck sized sump on it, I guess.

It's probably a black sludge by now.

And I though my 75' Schwinn Traveler was pimp. 0-30 in 15 sec. LoL

cx500 engines will go forever ive got 80k miles on mine bought it with 77k last fall

7 years?!? Stick out your hand so I can slap it with a torque wrench.

is that the bike i saw pics of in.... was it chicken head's thread?

if so, looks badass

Reminds me, I'd best get the ZR out next warm-ish day for a blat.

I don't winterize the bike here, but it does go a month or so between rides in the winter time.

I knew someone with a CX Turbo once, he swore by it, but it was a funny looking little bugger...

hrmmm *checks last Oil change on his 86 VW Jetta*

:O 2000 :O

Wow i would put new everything on the bike if it has been that long. new oil and filter, clean intake and carb or injection also clean yor fuel lines and dump out old gas.
Checked my oil last week...all good

Quote: Originally posted by HawkEye_Pierce It's probably a black sludge by now.

Well _duh_ :

Quote: Originally posted by Jonny English ... it still hardly looks used - the advantage of a cold blooded V twin with a truck sized sump on it, I guess.

It was worth putting £30 ($45) 's worth of oil in it after all

Quote: Originally posted by HoJo 7 years?!? Stick out your hand so I can slap it with a torque wrench.

To be fair - it's more like 4 & a 1/2 - I just found a receipt for an alternator backplate dated May 1997, I would have had to change the oil then as it's & engine out / crankcase splitting job, and it hasn't been used at all in the last 2 years. It's done 10,000 miles tops in that time as it's never been my only form of transportation, I've always had a car too & another bike.

Quote: Originally posted by floatingtrem is that the bike i saw pics of in.... was it chicken head's thread? if so, looks badass

It was the Chickenhead thread, but that was my CB400, this is my CX:

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Quote: Originally posted by anime-fan-man Wow i would put new everything on the bike if it has been that long. new oil and filter, clean intake and carb or injection also clean yor fuel lines and dump out old gas. Checked my oil last week...all good

I always checked the oil regularly, I might have forgotten to change the oil, but I'm not a complete imbecile - the oil's always been at the correct level & a good colour.


As for restarting it, you're right about the fuel system, that'll be getting all that attention ... the bike'll also be getting some oil down the bores too, & a lot of turning over before I flick the killswitch & start it, once it's properly warmed up it'll get the oil/filter change then.

oooooo you are a bad boy jonny... neglecting your bike like that. i guess you should send it too me as punishment. i'll even pay for the shipping. i do 6 oil changes a year on my bikes.

my 0 to 60 time is 2.7 seconds at the drag strip. 1/4 mile time is at 10.2 seconds. at 127.6 mph now that is fast. fastest time around gratten raceway is 0:01:38.

at least you bike is the right color. YELLOW RULES.

Awesome bike ... bet that's a blast to ride

sure its sweet, but i could ride circles around you on my fuji

Quote: Originally Posted by Krostillian Awesome bike ... bet that's a blast to ride

It's a shed ... it's overweight (500lb), top heavy (you have to run the suspension really hard, otherwise you get an extra 10 degrees of lean when the suspension unloads), it's got a bendy frame, the brakes are shocking (in the dry they barely work & using them hard twice makes the friction material in the pads catch fire, in the wet there's no feel & it's too easy to lock the front up), fuel economy is ludicrous (30mpg from a 500 ?!) ...

...on the plus side it's got the best seat on any bike (it's more like a sofa), it's built like a tank, the rear light is the size of a portable TV, the torque it develops is incredible, and you can play tunes on the exhaust

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonny English It's a shed ... it's overweight (500lb), top heavy (you have to run the suspension really hard, otherwise you get an extra 10 degrees of lean when the suspension unloads), it's got a bendy frame, the brakes are shocking (in the dry they barely work & using them hard twice makes the friction material in the pads catch fire, in the wet there's no feel & it's too easy to lock the front up), fuel economy is ludicrous (30mpg from a 500 ?!) ... ...on the plus side it's got the best seat on any bike (it's more like a sofa), it's built like a tank, the rear light is the size of a portable TV, the torque it develops is incredible, and you can play tunes on the exhaust

Sounds like the kinda fun the old 1973 Suzuki TM 400 produced...heavy, illhandling, flexyframed, and more power than was ever needed or desired.
If you motocrossed the TM400 in the "open class" ,
It wasn't if you were gonna win or not...you'd be the fastest alright...It was a pure survivor thing, as in how Hard you were gonna crash before you crossed the finnish line....

Quote: Originally Posted by ducati748r oooooo you are a bad boy jonny... neglecting your bike like that. i guess you should send it too me as punishment. i'll even pay for the shipping. i do 6 oil changes a year on my bikes. my 0 to 60 time is 2.7 seconds at the drag strip. 1/4 mile time is at 10.2 seconds. at 127.6 mph now that is fast. fastest time around gratten raceway is 0:01:38. at least you bike is the right color. YELLOW RULES.

Man ducati thats fast..hopefully I will be able to some day run those times...this is what I have right now.
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