Post a photo of your bike!

Looks nice. I like the yellow and blue.

Batteries are reasonably cheap thankfully.

Here is my bike:

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7,000 miles seems a little unlikely...

Is that oil on the side of the engine, or water from the wash?

Bike still looks good from a far =D 

sullivj wrote:7,000 miles seems a little unlikely...

been around the clock by the looks of the high mileage thread.

sullivj wrote:7,000 miles seems a little unlikely...

Is that oil on the side of the engine, or water from the wash?

Not sure what that is, but well spotted. will have a look in daylight to see if it's nowt to worry about

sullivj wrote:Only when they're closely followed by my knee, elbow and head!!

Total respect to your girlfriend for holding a selfie stick when she should be hanging on for dear life!!

...came back on to show a friend the photo in question today and it appears to be gone

Dan

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Here's my cb it'll be my 2nd race meeting with emra at Mallory park on Sunday. Can't wait love riding it and already feel comfortable on it 

Here is mine. I noticed that my exhaust muffler looks a bit different from other '96-models, which have led me to assume mischief on the part of the previous owner. It seems to be just a piece of polished aluminium welded on top of the original black muffler. If I take it off some day I'll probably find something unpleasant. Any ideas? I bought it six years ago with 16000 km (allegedly) on the clock.

Mine the same but 97 model
Yours is a far clean bike than my well use one

It's aliiiive!

...After almost a year off the road following coolant system drama and a broken collarbone too. 

Original exhaust taken off,  completely rotten, radiator crumbled off, fan the same. Replaced with a stainless job off here for 50 quid, a new delkevic rad, secondhand fan in great nick, system drained, flushed and refilled.  Mot this morning,  passed with no advisories. 

Plenty to do still, fork springs,  shocks , brake calipers refurbed, new mirrors....and on and on. Great bike, had a crazy ride to and from mot in mental weather handled no problem by the CB.  

Bike when I bought it a few weeks ago: [url=https://servimg.com/view/19734264/2]

I am away so cannot post a current pic until I get back. Suffice it to say I have fitted the basic TEC shocks, an OEM front disk, new radiator & air box (looks the same), new front mudguard (the one in the pic is broken), new number plate, and correct Givi plate for top box as I have a set of Trekker luggage. I have a better fairing to fit. So it does not look very different than in this picture, though it is tidier when you get close.

It is highly original for a 108,000 mile bike and I want to keep it that way, so am thinking of fitting an OEM silencer. Other than that, the bigest problem is the tatty engine--not sure how to polish / paint it?

Looks very good for 108k...good work john

John_B wrote: Other than that, the biggest problem is the tatty engine--not sure how to polish / paint it?

Looks good, even before you've made it better!

The engine can be a bit of a pain. There isn't much you can do to make the peeling/knackered paint look better other than painting over it.

If you are going to do this then the best thing to do is take the engine out of the frame, clean it all up, sand/roughen up and attack with appropriately coloured spray can of engine paint. It can be a fair old job to do it properly - not difficult but takes a while, that is, assuming you don't have problems getting the engine out ( snapping exhaust studs and siezed engine mounting bolts are the traditional problems). I'm not trying to put you off doing it, but it would be unfair not to mention the possible problems.

You can paint the side covers while the engine is in the frame but you need to mask the edge well and cover up the rest of the bike. I did mine with some 99p pound-shop silver spray paint and it didn't look too bad, but then they looked so bad before almost anything was going to look better.

Here's mine, 63,000 miles on the clock! Thankyou to Fairweatherrider for the exhaust!

Looks very clean ben for 63k miles

good to see that you are both colour co ordinated

skyrider wrote:good to see that you are both colour co ordinated

Lol as matching colours

wornsprokets wrote:Looks very clean ben for 63k miles

It has its flaws a little closer up 

Good to see you have your cb up and on road cj haughey  i taught for sure it only be a parts bike...condition you got it in... well done

Photo just before embarking on ferry!