12-08-2020, 07:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-08-2020, 04:35 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(12-08-2020, 03:57 PM)Reckless Rat Wrote: The CX500 is water cooled, Tony. It's one of Honda's first water cooled bikes from the late 70s. Nice little v twin, with 5 speed box and shaft drive, so probably no Austin gearbox either. Does seem a little expensive. Perhaps they got the decimal point in the wrong place on the price ?...and designed, I believe, by the chap who did the first Honda F1 engine. I had new CX500 Euro Sport and what a revelation. It would sit comfortably at high speed all day, vibration-free and when you stopped, ticked over like a sewing machine with no oil leaks. The contrast with my 650 Norton SS was night and day - to say that riding the Norton was akin to mounting oil-spewing road drill would be an understatement. The 650 Bonneville I had was worse; thrashed, it would (among other faults) break up a new pair of (genuine maker's) silencers in 50 miles and put the carbs out of tune in half that distance.