So I seam to have this thing that if people dislike a certain vehicle for whatever reason, looks, power, performance or even practicality, I will head over heals fall for the curse word heap
Enter the Honda CX500, the strangest looking frame i think any bike has ever been pumped out the shop with, its heavy and a bit slow, the original is cover it silly fairings and it tries to plant itself into the floor if you throttle too hard in a corner...gimme gimme gimme!
So another beer fuel eBay run and I find one that's in such a state that no one will really care that I've 'ruined a classic', i got there to hand over the money and I genuinely thought I'd gone into some sort of dreadful american comedy, the guy was a true biker but was curse word out his mind and looked like he genuinely had fought in the Vietnam conflict, so the drunk Vet disappears off at about Mach 5 on the bike to show me 'it's got poke mate' skids to a stop to show me 'its got the grip too'....mental but wait there's more the fella turns the bike off and starts rolling up a little something special for himself as we chatted...Dave I really hope you are still alive you crazy curse word because you are genuinely the most interesting guy I've ever met.
so with that bought it was time to start working on getting the image out of my head and onto the bike and that starts oddly with making it more rusty..
bit of paint stripping into some metal pickling
with the vinyl applied as a homage to Dave, he called it 'The Black Maggot' i started with the rusting process
few more goes at that then remove the vinyl to show p the bare metal beneath and then clear coat
followed by a few evenings sorting out Dave's mates wiring wizardry...just a hint there working doesn't mean fixed and fixed doesn't mean properly
now to work out those silly bloody bars
Then I treated the internals of the fuel tank to a good rust treating and epoxy coating to ensure that at least my fuel wouldn't suffer for my styling choices, then onto the bike along side some nice new filters to free up some space in the frame
now when I'm on a long ride the first think I'd want is a really nice comfy seat...yeah that's not happening, what better than combining my teenage obsession with my young adult one! Ouch!!
and that is about as far as I've gotten with the Maggot at least she looks cool!
Just brakes, exhaust and a bit more wiring left to do then she'll be 'Road Legal'
Enter the Honda CX500, the strangest looking frame i think any bike has ever been pumped out the shop with, its heavy and a bit slow, the original is cover it silly fairings and it tries to plant itself into the floor if you throttle too hard in a corner...gimme gimme gimme!
So another beer fuel eBay run and I find one that's in such a state that no one will really care that I've 'ruined a classic', i got there to hand over the money and I genuinely thought I'd gone into some sort of dreadful american comedy, the guy was a true biker but was curse word out his mind and looked like he genuinely had fought in the Vietnam conflict, so the drunk Vet disappears off at about Mach 5 on the bike to show me 'it's got poke mate' skids to a stop to show me 'its got the grip too'....mental but wait there's more the fella turns the bike off and starts rolling up a little something special for himself as we chatted...Dave I really hope you are still alive you crazy curse word because you are genuinely the most interesting guy I've ever met.
so with that bought it was time to start working on getting the image out of my head and onto the bike and that starts oddly with making it more rusty..
bit of paint stripping into some metal pickling
with the vinyl applied as a homage to Dave, he called it 'The Black Maggot' i started with the rusting process
few more goes at that then remove the vinyl to show p the bare metal beneath and then clear coat
followed by a few evenings sorting out Dave's mates wiring wizardry...just a hint there working doesn't mean fixed and fixed doesn't mean properly
now to work out those silly bloody bars
Then I treated the internals of the fuel tank to a good rust treating and epoxy coating to ensure that at least my fuel wouldn't suffer for my styling choices, then onto the bike along side some nice new filters to free up some space in the frame
now when I'm on a long ride the first think I'd want is a really nice comfy seat...yeah that's not happening, what better than combining my teenage obsession with my young adult one! Ouch!!
and that is about as far as I've gotten with the Maggot at least she looks cool!
Just brakes, exhaust and a bit more wiring left to do then she'll be 'Road Legal'
