My classic bike: 1979 Honda CBX1000

Here’s on of my classic bikes. A 1979 Honda CBX1000. Enjoy the ride

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Good morning everybody happy boxing day this is one of my latest classic toys so stick around and I’ll talk you through it I saw a video yesterday from Fort 9 about the cbx th000 obviously very professionally done nothing uh nothing like what I do but

Just to let you know um I don’t always do lesson uploads I’ve got several of these bikes in fact here’s a here’s a picture of the ones I currently own so if one of these sort of uploads doesn’t bother you then feel free to just click off and uh I’ll see you on

The next lesson but this bike is an icon for people like me I’m 58 years old this particular one has got six cylinders look at that isn’t that massive but having said that to make this fit properly and not be ridiculous wide and too heavy what they did is they

Took the alternator off the end of the crank and they put it at the back just there so this engine is only 2 in wider than the old Honda CB750 of the70s two biggest problems with these bikes one of them is the UK alternator only just gives you enough uh Power so

There’s a modification you can do with the Kawasaki one on that one which I might do in the future and the second one is if you don’t turn your petrol tap off when you leave it for a while it will leak into one of the cylinders bending one of the comrads you can

Imagine how expensive that’ll be to repair I’ve put a period tax disc on the bike the bike is over 40 years old now so it doesn’t need tax or it do need tax it’s free but it doesn’t need anot so I just decided to have one of those

Printed out cuz I think it’s quite a nice touch that’s when the first one would have expired the exhaust is aftermarket but it’s um almost a replica of the original I do like two exhaust on a bike I think it balances it really nicely but it’s beautiful the only thing I’m going

To really do to it as you can see here the paint’s faded so I’m going to have the bike resprayed back to its beautiful rich candy red I wanted to keep it standard but as somebody quite rightly said to me not long ago well it wasn’t faded red

Standard was it it’s a good point um something else changed on it as well the shock absorbers that came with it when I first bought it were abysmal absolutely terrible every time I went over a pothole or a bump it pounded my spine there’s a guy that’s local to me

Called Nigel and he’s apparently the guru on cbxs and he’s going to come around and have a look over it for me it’s a bit hard to start when it’s cold but let’s take it for a ride see what you think of it petrols on ignition on once it’s

Warm it’s got a bit of a lazy rev counter on it as well so probably just going to get Nigel he can strip these down and and restore them but you can see how slow it’s really funny though with this bike it’s um it sounds like it’s revving

A lot higher than it actually is have a listen to this I’m moving in cuz I saw that bike coming you see it’s doing three 3 and a half thousand revs and it sounds like it’s bloody red lining let me open it up

To 50 see if you can hear it and now I won’t there’s a dog there just going to keep speed down a little bit don’t want to scare the animals there we go that was only 5 and 1/2 to 6,000 revs and it actually sounded like it was red

Lining so the front wheel on this is actually a 19in front wheel and during the’ 70s and 80s the motorcycle manufacturers were experimenting with different sizes they went down as low as 16 in which I used to have a Suzuki GSX 550 16 in and it was just too Twitchy for me

And on the 19 in my old Honda cb900f had one of those and I could never quite get on with the handling of it this one for some reason works really well it is incredibly smooth as for9 mentioned this one does have a little

Bit of a tick over rattle on it which is there’s a massive chain in the middle of the engine and um apparently that can get a little bit loose sometimes but it’s such a big chain I can’t see it failing but once you’re actually revving it everything seems to Iron Out nicely

And it really is turbine smooth the pull on it is really good as well anything from three and above you open that throttle up and it pulls beautifully the brakes do the job they’re not really really terrible but obviously not going to be the standard of modern bike brakes really but I

Actually find that’s part of the attraction of a classic bike because it just makes you plan ahead a little bit more you don’t have to be going everywhere with your hair on fire not that I’ve got much hair left there’s a nice Corner out here where you

Can drive it up the hill and I’ll see if I can get the sound of the engine for you let this car go there we go that’s about second gear it sounds incredible there are a couple of videos on YouTube where people have got these 6 into six exhausts and they’re saying

That the bike actually sounds like a Formula 1 car when you open it up it really does sound amazing it’s a 1047 CC it’s 105 horsepower at the time it was absolutely groundbreaking and Honda built it inspired by their 250cc 6 cylinder racer I just love the way Honda

Are always saying well you don’t think this can be done let’s do it they’re like a corporate Allen milliard it’s just such an incredible bike to ride it’s comfortable you do get a lot of wind blast cuz it doesn’t have a fearing the seat height is slightly

Higher than the 80s bikes that I remember and I’ve owned but it’s a really nice riding position it’s balanced so well between the seat and the bars the foot pegs are quite High actually for what they are but again very very comfortable well I hope this has been

Okay for you there’s not been a lot to say really just look at the old Dash and you got the old choke on it it’s just such a sweet sweet bike to ride and I’m very very lucky that at my age I can actually afford the toys that

I couldn’t have when I were a kid here’s a photograph of me at 16 years old dreaming over the cbx th000 and who would have thought that 42 years later I would actually be owning one well feel free to like comment subscribe remember my next upload will probably be a lesson for

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