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I remember it coming up for sale the first time. Looks like the lounge couches are right where I ordered a whatever burger they would give me and a brown lemonade.

Just because the bike is capable of dope adventures doesn't mean every ride needs to be one. I see a dude commuting one of these sometimes in Tauranga. Any ride counts. You could even imitate a GS rider and do a coffee tour of town for shits and giggles. Great photos. Keep it coming!

Small bike enthusiast I may be. But I have ridden a lot of hooley doovidsuns and would trade again. Glad to see you with this @cletus. So tell us the plans, no one buys one of these and keeps it as they found it.

Schematics here: https://www.cmsnl.com/honda-c100-japan_model50708/partslist/ Service manual download (if you login): https://4-stroke.net/131-honda/honda-c100/downloads/438-honda-c100-service-manual.html Workshop manual: https://4-stroke.net/download/workshop-manual/1011-workshop-manual-for-honda-c100-1961.html I just created an account on that site and the downloads legitimately work. Can download 5 documents a day on 4-stroke.net Good luck!

@keltik I'd just like to say this thread single handedly got me hooked watching a couple of sailing youtuberers and it's pretty interesting. Watching a guy take his 30ft Sloop from USA over to Hawaii, French Polynesia, then Fiji, here, now in Aussie etc has made me realise I have zero balls. (Sailing Triteia). Appreciate all these updates and the trip with your brother looked insane. Beautiful photos. Keep it up!

This dude gets 3D printed intake manifold made for his Sachs builds and it's quite cool. https://hustlerminibikes.nz/collections/specialised-parts/products/sachs-km48-alloy-intake-manifold

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I've ridden a few goldwings and at one point got to spend a decent amount of time with a Goldwing Trike. Whilst it was dead stock I still would take that thing for a blat every chance I could. Blitzing the throttle in a full lock turn lit up the wheels with ease and I would proceed to piss a large amount of cheese. Can't even imagine how cool it will feel to drive this thing when it's together! You make magic happen mate. Seriously impressive.

Interesting yarn and can't wait to read the next bits. Conscious of not spamming up a good thread in the making but I've had a bit of experience with bike auctions from Japan and have the same experience with grades. Always tried to bid on bikes in the 4-4.5 range. Sometimes they would be amazing, sometimes utter shit and obviously graded by someone thats legally blind. Then again I've had 3.5's turn up in amazing condition. There was no rhyme or reason in the 2-3 years I was involved with it - as you have we just had to hope and pray based on photos. Just reading that had me excited a couple of times and deflated an equal amount, I can only imagine how it must have felt for you. Thanks for taking the time to write about the process so far.

Similar but kinda not. The dude that posted it makes tonnes of custom displays for the digital dash he uses.

I have ridden one of these a fair bit. Don't be scared of changing gears 82 times per kilometre. Especially into/out of corners and up hills. When I was at the bike shop we had a guy bring back the big brother (RZ50) after owning it a day because it 'wouldn't accelerate properly'. Turns out he would slow for roundabouts or corners and leave in 4th or 5th then wonder why it wouldn't accelerate out of them. +1 on the tidying it up as is - Cafe racers are just discomfort disguised as 'cool factor'. But it's your bike at the end of the day.

Some haven't ridden long distances on Small Bikes and it shows. The fellas organising this trip have aced it more than once now - and as someone whos also organised long trips, people saying hey lets do this and this and this and this is annoying. Whilst it might be fun to do extra stuff, wrangling a group of excitable men on small bikes is a mission in itself without people disappearing to see random stuff along the way. Just get an NBC110 and go do some mountain skids with cool people. Turn up with a bike, book some accommodation - they'll have the rest sorted.

Barry thread is over that way ---------------->

I thought those were gonna be XRM49 cc's.

Keen for an indepth update of this suitably adventurous adventure.

My butthole is actually incredibly tiny I'll have you know. Can't have a big wang and be in FOAMERS. Have a great ride everyone, be safe/do a skid etc.

In my short stint at Bayride, we had 2 of these come in quite cooked. Both had been due to an air intake full of dirt/mud as well as the radiator. I remember designs were changed at some point as ya mention and things got better. But always worth checking that after every ride if you can/if it's the model thats susceptible to that.

May need to find a new parking spot at Rere falls next time.

@Thphantum's son had a nice grass kart. Still does but the inside of the engine is now outside of the environment. Proper slammed and went hard for what it was.