Anthony London

It's a good runner, ignore the bit in the ad about it having a flat battery,
it's fine really and now it just needs tax, MOT and a new owner. Only done
300 miles since last MOT and has been garaged. Would prefer to sell to a
collector but highest bid wins!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ategory=98 06

TLSG

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:57:10 +0100, "Anthony London"
<ant501@takethisbitout.hotmail.com> proclaimed the following:

>It's a good runner, ignore the bit in the ad about it having a flat battery,
>it's fine really and now it just needs tax, MOT and a new owner. Only done
>300 miles since last MOT and has been garaged. Would prefer to sell to a
>collector but highest bid wins!
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ategory=98 06
>

Hmm, twin disks as well.


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Gyp

In message <dGRac.5744$Id.4614@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>, Anthony
London <ant501@takethisbitout.hotmail.com> writes
>It's a good runner, ignore the bit in the ad about it having a flat battery,
>it's fine really and now it just needs tax, MOT and a new owner. Only done
>300 miles since last MOT and has been garaged. Would prefer to sell to a
>collector but highest bid wins!

And when I put up a wanted CX500 post a while back no-one had one.

I take it that it is the CX500A, the one where the crank failed early in
it's life? If was only on the CX500B when the crank was sorted that the
engines ran for long enough to discover the camchain problem.

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Anthony London

"Gyp" <Gyp@ELSANgyponline.com> wrote in message:

>And when I put up a wanted CX500 post a while back no-one had >one.

Well.. now's your chance...

> I take it that it is the CX500A, the one where the crank failed early in
> it's life? If was only on the CX500B when the crank was sorted that the >
engines ran for long enough to discover the camchain problem.

Well.. I can only go on what frame numbers are in my Haynes manual so here
is what info I have:

It's not a CX500A (1980, with square master cylinder, flyscreen and alloy
rad surround) It's a CX500 original model (1978, with a round master
cylinder).

Frame number is CX50002015012

As for the crank and the cam chain... well.. it's done around 35000 miles so
I can only assume that if anything was going to snap it might have done so
by now. My local Honda agent seemed to think it was ok when I took it there
for a service and MOT shortly after buying it in 1997.

Gyp

In message <0I_ac.9063$Id.2147@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>, Anthony
London <ant501@takethisbitout.hotmail.com> writes

>>And when I put up a wanted CX500 post a while back no-one had >one.
>
>Well.. now's your chance...

No, I don't want one now, I wanted one then.

What on earth would I want with a slow overweight pushrod twin oh hang
on what on earth would I want with another slow overweight pushrod
twin...

>As for the crank and the cam chain... well.. it's done around 35000 miles so
>I can only assume that if anything was going to snap it might have done so
>by now. My local Honda agent seemed to think it was ok when I took it there
>for a service and MOT shortly after buying it in 1997.

Fair enough.
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Grimly Curmudgeon

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Anthony London"
<ant501@takethisbitout.hotmail.com> saying something like:

>It's a good runner, ignore the bit in the ad about it having a flat battery,
>it's fine really and now it just needs tax, MOT and a new owner. Only done
>300 miles since last MOT and has been garaged. Would prefer to sell to a
>collector but highest bid wins!
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ategory=98 06
>

Ye gods, I haven't seen one that clean and original-looking for years.

It would have been worth your while to put a year's ticket on it before
sale.

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Anthony London

"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimlycurmudgeon683@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:i3vo60ple96d3daqu3p4gj5a2503v3clig@4ax.com...

> Ye gods, I haven't seen one that clean and original-looking for years.
>
> It would have been worth your while to put a year's ticket on it before
> sale.

You're not alone in suggesting that, so I have! It passed its MOT this
afternoon. So... nice clean example of an early CX500, full 12 months
MOT.... OK I guess I should have MOT'd it BEFORE putting it up for sale but
sometimes one just acts on impulse. I really felt that after only doing 300
miles in the last 2 years with me it really needed a new owner to cherish
it.

Anthony.