Coffee Beans in the airbox! Is this a thing?! - with pic

[jj.]

So servicing a (new to me – VFR800) at the weekend. Have done 110 miles since picking it up, just to really check all is OK and to run the fuel out of the tank. Bike has been with last owner for 11 years (only done around 1k miles during his ownership - garaged) and not moved since covid.

Lifted the airbox cover… What the…??? Have never seen this, how have coffee beans got into the airbox..?

Someone has suggested, it might be to deter rodents, etc, but have never seen or heard of this.

Anyone..?
jj

[geeks]

Maybe someone didnt understand when they were being told about the old "coffee bean shake!"

[Slowboathome]

That's really odd.

I saw something similar in a Suzuki once, but that was a 2 seater convertible.

[FourWheelDrift]

Do you get a nice coffee smell after a few hours?

[ssray]

May have been a rodent that left them there

[catso]

You sure they're coffee beans?

Rodents; mice, squirrels etc. often make nests/food stashes in car/bike airboxes and other places.

My Sister had mice nesting/stashing in her car and the little bastids chewed part of the wiring loom away.

[the cueball]

FourWheelDrift said:

Do you get a nice coffee smell after a few hours?

That's what I want to know too...

Man since I got this new bike I'm always wanting to stop for a coffee.. no idea why.........

[jj.]

the cueball said:

That's what I want to know too...
Man since I got this new bike I'm always wanting to stop for a coffee.. no idea why.........

Nope... No smell at all. Nothing out of the ordinary. Happy to report nothing else strange found around the bike either. No signs of anything behind the fairing panels (once they were removed) or under seat. All looks immaculate to me. Just like the owner said, garaged for most of it's life, even the forward headers are 'pitted' free.

Bizarre..!!?
jj

[Bodo]

What a burnout close to a coffee machine does to your bike..

[ph9]

Last time I saw something like that was in a Vauxhall Mokka.

[LunarOne]

Maybe it's not a Honda at all. It's a Suzuki. Cappuccino...

[Bodo]

That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.

[Zarco]

Bodo said:

That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.

Good effort.

[airsafari87]

Slowboathome said:

That's really odd.

I saw something similar in a Suzuki once, but that was a 2 seater convertible.

Bravo sir. Bravo.

[podman]

Bodo said:

That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.

The Winner !

[Rough101]

Previous owner must have been a right Gareth Hunt.

[Bob_Defly]

How odd. Does it run hot? Maybe he was roasting them...

[Rubin215]

Helps put off sniffer dogs at customs when you're bringing in a couple of keys.

[Birky_41]

Thats so random! Seeing the original header I thought this is mice droppings but that does look like coffee beans!

[ph9]

Rubin215 said:

Helps put off sniffer dogs at customs when you're bringing in a couple of keys.

If you get caught you'd better enlist the services of a top barista.