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CBX1000 is a great bike. Easy to work on , except carbs, which is engine down to change jets etc.
Everything else is easy. Great owners club too. Run by Mel Watkins. Parts are still available with the exception of a few things.
Is it a CBX-Z or A or B or C model and what colour is it.
Cheers
CC
Everything else is easy. Great owners club too. Run by Mel Watkins. Parts are still available with the exception of a few things.
Is it a CBX-Z or A or B or C model and what colour is it.
Cheers
CC
I had 3 of these, one of which i sent a piccy of to our very own Podman!
That one had a Yoshimura 6 into 1 exhaust, which sounded glorious.
Just be sure not to expext 2008, or even 1998, levels of handling, braking or performance!
They are extremely dated in every way, but sound incredible.
That one had a Yoshimura 6 into 1 exhaust, which sounded glorious.
Just be sure not to expext 2008, or even 1998, levels of handling, braking or performance!
They are extremely dated in every way, but sound incredible.
Beemer-5 said:
blade7 said:
Had a couple of the early ones when they were top dog, other than the novelty of 6 cylinders they were just thirstier and more expensive for the same end result as a zed thou.
Way more fun than a Z1000 though!
then replaced those with a 6 into 1, looked the mutts nuts. 
The first batch released in late 1978 with the high handlebars and the 5 way adjustable rear shocks had no redline on the rev counter and quite a few dropped no 5 rod out the front.
The ex Richard Borain Castrol Honda did it when we bought it and Simon Fourie who owns Bike SA magazine had his do it at the bottom of a fearsome 5th gear downhill off camber bend called Barbeque / Juksie at the original Kyalami...
It was not nice when they did that. The later ones with the lower handlebars and multi adjustable FVQ rear dampers had a 9500rpm IIRC redline and we had no more failures from mid 1979 onwards.
They were a great motorcycle with pencils for fork legs, wooden brakes, wobbled at the slightest provocation, digestive biscuit sized tyres but on open 6 into 6 Denco pipes they sounded just like a Ferrari V12 F1 car.
I have owned a bundle of these and one day again soon I want a CBX-A in black and a CBX-C in white.
I know a South African here in UK that owns 26 CBX's over 40% of them are new still in the crates !
Cheers
CC
The ex Richard Borain Castrol Honda did it when we bought it and Simon Fourie who owns Bike SA magazine had his do it at the bottom of a fearsome 5th gear downhill off camber bend called Barbeque / Juksie at the original Kyalami...
It was not nice when they did that. The later ones with the lower handlebars and multi adjustable FVQ rear dampers had a 9500rpm IIRC redline and we had no more failures from mid 1979 onwards.
They were a great motorcycle with pencils for fork legs, wooden brakes, wobbled at the slightest provocation, digestive biscuit sized tyres but on open 6 into 6 Denco pipes they sounded just like a Ferrari V12 F1 car.
I have owned a bundle of these and one day again soon I want a CBX-A in black and a CBX-C in white.
I know a South African here in UK that owns 26 CBX's over 40% of them are new still in the crates !
Cheers
CC
I had a Z1000A2 as a 19yr old in 1978. The gearbox was mega slick. It ran 135 MPh and wobbled like fook. The tyres of choice in those days were Avon Roadrunners which were square or TT100's which were triangular and on turn in you thought you were going to fall off !
My Z had Dunstall "silencers" Roadrunners and Z1R cast alloys as soon as they became available. Complete with the new fangled drilled discs.
After that I had an R100S BMW 'cause Dad would only sign HP for a BMW. Then I got a new GS750 DN in Black/orange/gold. The model came out in 1979 and had the choke up on the handlebar centre and not on the carbs and had folding footpegs--a first.
It lasted 3 weeks std. Then it got welded crank, billet clutch basket, 844cc Yoshimura pistons, Yoshi cam chain, Yoshi stage 3 Bonneville cams, Yoshi valves & titanium retainers, Yoshi hand bent race pipe. Mikuni 29mm smoothbores etc etc. It ran on Michelin PZ10 race tyres and was meteor fast and arrow straight. Sadly it broke a cam chain after 3000 miles and two races and killed everything.
I have been very fortunate and ridden some magnificent motorcycles. All have great memories and I now have a KTM 950 SM and a racing Ducati Pantah
Cheers
CC
My Z had Dunstall "silencers" Roadrunners and Z1R cast alloys as soon as they became available. Complete with the new fangled drilled discs.
After that I had an R100S BMW 'cause Dad would only sign HP for a BMW. Then I got a new GS750 DN in Black/orange/gold. The model came out in 1979 and had the choke up on the handlebar centre and not on the carbs and had folding footpegs--a first.
It lasted 3 weeks std. Then it got welded crank, billet clutch basket, 844cc Yoshimura pistons, Yoshi cam chain, Yoshi stage 3 Bonneville cams, Yoshi valves & titanium retainers, Yoshi hand bent race pipe. Mikuni 29mm smoothbores etc etc. It ran on Michelin PZ10 race tyres and was meteor fast and arrow straight. Sadly it broke a cam chain after 3000 miles and two races and killed everything.
I have been very fortunate and ridden some magnificent motorcycles. All have great memories and I now have a KTM 950 SM and a racing Ducati Pantah
Cheers
CC
Chipchap said:
I had a Z1000A2 as a 19yr old in 1978. The gearbox was mega slick. It ran 135 MPh and wobbled like fook. The tyres of choice in those days were Avon Roadrunners which were square or TT100's which were triangular and on turn in you thought you were going to fall off !
My Z had Dunstall "silencers" Roadrunners and Z1R cast alloys as soon as they became available. Complete with the new fangled drilled discs.
After that I had an R100S BMW 'cause Dad would only sign HP for a BMW. Then I got a new GS750 DN in Black/orange/gold. The model came out in 1979 and had the choke up on the handlebar centre and not on the carbs and had folding footpegs--a first.
It lasted 3 weeks std. Then it got welded crank, billet clutch basket, 844cc Yoshimura pistons, Yoshi cam chain, Yoshi stage 3 Bonneville cams, Yoshi valves & titanium retainers, Yoshi hand bent race pipe. Mikuni 29mm smoothbores etc etc. It ran on Michelin PZ10 race tyres and was meteor fast and arrow straight. Sadly it broke a cam chain after 3000 miles and two races and killed everything.
I have been very fortunate and ridden some magnificent motorcycles. All have great memories and I now have a KTM 950 SM and a racing Ducati Pantah
Cheers
CC
Ah CC, if only you had chucked a dresda box section swing arm and some koni shocks on your zed it would have been like my Z1B, the wobble was banished to be replaced by a steadily worsening weave.My Z had Dunstall "silencers" Roadrunners and Z1R cast alloys as soon as they became available. Complete with the new fangled drilled discs.
After that I had an R100S BMW 'cause Dad would only sign HP for a BMW. Then I got a new GS750 DN in Black/orange/gold. The model came out in 1979 and had the choke up on the handlebar centre and not on the carbs and had folding footpegs--a first.
It lasted 3 weeks std. Then it got welded crank, billet clutch basket, 844cc Yoshimura pistons, Yoshi cam chain, Yoshi stage 3 Bonneville cams, Yoshi valves & titanium retainers, Yoshi hand bent race pipe. Mikuni 29mm smoothbores etc etc. It ran on Michelin PZ10 race tyres and was meteor fast and arrow straight. Sadly it broke a cam chain after 3000 miles and two races and killed everything.
I have been very fortunate and ridden some magnificent motorcycles. All have great memories and I now have a KTM 950 SM and a racing Ducati Pantah
Cheers
CC
the first MCN I ever bought had one of these on the front cover and a road test where it toasted a Fezzer 308.
As a 16 year old it was lust and first sight!
Looking back at one now its unreal how spindally the frame and forks are buy modern standards.
Would I buy one now?
You bet I would!!
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