just found this forum

Just found this forum over the weekend looking for info on clutch hydraulics problem on my old VF700. Got it fixed and came back to post in that thread what worked for me.

Have had the VF700 for about 10yrs now. Love the old classic lines. Been riding since 1965. Raced on/off for about 10yrs. Currently have somewhere around 15 bikes +/- Would need to go down to the barn and start counting!! Have had some of them for 30-40yrs, never seemed to git rid of some of them. Still have my very first bike, a 1965 Honda S65!

Riding and playing around with bikes is a hobby/passion/therapy for me. Here's a couple of my projects from last winter:

Took an old FT500 Ascot and converted it into a street tracker...what an Ascot should have looked like to begin with!!



Restored this barn fresh '76 Elsinore. stripped it down to the last nut and bolt and completely redid it:



Also restored this old roadie:



My current project, a retro-Wing!



Got to keep all these oldies alive and kickin' ( kind of like me!!!) Sorry, no pics the the VF700....

 

ALready got one...2000 tourer:




Besides, its more fun to take something like that '82 Interstate full dresser and strip it down and modify it and build it back to what I want than it is to just go out and buy one. I'm actually fixing it up for my son to ride.

 

Honda's? Honda's? We got Honda's!!!!!

Lets see if I can remember/count all the ones I currently have:

'59 CA100 SuperCub
'65 S65...my first bike!
'65 CL72 scrambler...some day to be an AHRMA brakeless class flattracker
'67 CL77 305 scrambler.... restored
'76 Cr125m Elsinore, pic above
'78 GL1000 Goldwing pic above
'80 XR200R trailbike
'82 FT500 Ascot streettracker
'82 CR125R mx'er
'82 GL1100 Goldwing Interstate, the retro conversion
'84 VF700F Interceptor
'86 TLR200 Reflex Dual sport trials
'90 VTR250 Interceptor
'00 GL1500CT Valkyrie tourer
'02 CRF200R...my own creation...'02 CRF450 chassis with an XR200 motor in it and full road-legal lighting.

GOt a couple of non-Honda's, too!

'71 Penton 125 ISDT
'74 Kawasaki Dynomite

Plus some parts bikes, some that could be re-assembled. Pretty much covers the spectrum....std, cruiser, sport bike, dual sport, trailbike, MX'ers,


Yeah, I guess you could say I bleed red......Honda Red!

 

That Elsinore looks great. :thumb:

 

Sure would like to see that Ascot mod on a VT500. Nice bikes Charlie.

 

WOW...!!! ....what a collection....thumbs up!!!!! CharlieT

 

Yeah, that Elsie came out pretty good, only wish I had taken some "before" pics of it. Say what yo want about eBay, but its been a savior for finding parts for some of these old bikes.

Picked that Ft500 up, oh, about 1990. Kept loking for a VT500, but neither model of Ascot was ever that popular and the FT's could be had cheap! I paid $400 for that Ascot and it only had a couple of thousand miles on it. Was cheap economical transportation, decent little commuter. ONly thing was it was way too funky looking, kinda like the Honda engineer that tried to design an Ascot replica had a tadbit too much saki that night!!!! It's an even more fun little streetrod now, gets a fair bit of attention, too! Weighed all the crap I took off of it and I had cut a bit over 50lbs off the stocker!!!

Yup, them are the ones I still have.......hmmmm, looking at the list, covers a Honda from each of what, the last 5 decades?? Fortunately, got that old barn that's n the background in a couple of them pics above. THere's a bunch of bikes I had that I did sell/trade of the years that I wish I still had or could find a decent one again, like a '68 441 BSA I had, or a Kaw Greenstreek. One I'd like to replicate is my first "race bike":



1965 Honda S90....high pipe, Powroll 98cc big bore kit with cam and carb mods, Borrani alloy rims (16in rear rim). Used to whip on the 2/s in the 100cc class back in them days. Of course, I was a tad bit younger and thinner back then!