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Marque Remarks => Honda => Topic started by: mick25 on July 22, 2010, 07:59:05 pm
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I picked up a xr500 1984 a few mths back and i noticed this bolted on cover on the side of the head :o
I had to take it off to see what was in there :o and there was nothing just a empty void 3inches by 3inches it would make a good pie
warmer on those big rides what was honda thinking or this common honda thing ??? ;D
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That’s really great news Mick. I’m stoked. I am looking forward to putting road rego on mine soon. I will be able to get a hinge and a latch and turn that cover into a little oven door 8) Hook up a thermometer read out on to the bars. No fug that, we should be able to smell when it’s done. So how much space is in there Mick? Enough room for a couple of those mini sausage rolls as well?
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Ya got that sorted, now, more importantly, how are ya gunna cool the beer ;D.
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Ya got that sorted, now, more importantly, how are ya gunna cool the beer ;D.
I have a few thoughts on the matter Graeme, but at this stage they all seem to have fatal flaws ??? Nothing a bit of campfire brainstorming couldn't fix though ::)
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They have a huge plastic tank you could make a void there for a esky area for the beers ;D i would post some pics with the pie in the oven,,but i havent worked up to getting pics up here :-\
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Hey Mick, if you have a pic. Email it to me and I will post it for you.
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I just sent you a PM with my email, Mick.
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No worries mickde im a cessnock boy so i may have seen you at heaven at times 8) I will take pic tomorrow cheers mickde
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No worries mickde im a cessnock boy so i may have seen you at heaven at times 8) I will take pic tomorrow cheers mickde
Yeah Mick, you wouldn't go outside now. It's pissin down here. It's rained 60 days out of the last 70 here ;D and I'm not kidding, twice a day. I came home with a 84cr alloy swing arm earlier this week and a 18' back wheel for the local dirt track.
I have two of them 84 XRs Mick. I finally raced one earlier this year at Buladelah. What a fiasco that was ::) but anyhow I had more fun than a five year old with his first peewe 50.
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The hole is for the reed valve i think?. Boyesen #606. I know there is a XR 500 with a reed valve in the head but now that i think about it, its underneath and on the 82 model.
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The empty void in the side of the head goes no where may be diffrent models had some thing there pizzia or so ;D
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My XR600 has a dim sim cooker too, ;D we put one rapped in foil once rode for a hour and opened it up and it was a burnt to a crisp. Need to practise the time a bit more. Proberly one of the most stupid things I have ever done but my old Motorbike mechanic gave me the idea to try it . I like you have no idea what the opening is really for but I dont think dim sim cooker is it
cheers
Fatboy
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You are right lwpe i know the xr 500 82 had reed valves but i havent taken mine off yet to see whats there :o
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May be its for the little japs fist to go in while hes holding it to paint :D
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MICKDE I have seen a 84 xr500 with a cr250 swing arm and rear wheel looks good im going down the same track with mine,,
Im useing a xl185 tank or rm80 tank combo because the standard tank is huge ::) I have tryed about ten tanks to fit they have a
step centre tube and its short so has been a pain >:(
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May be its for the little japs fist to go in while hes holding it to paint :D
People smugglers ?
Boat people maybe ? Sorry that,s Bike people. :)
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May be its for the little japs fist to go in while hes holding it to paint :D
People smugglers ?
Boat people maybe ? Sorry that,s Bike people. :)
:D :D ;D :D
That';s my sort of humour to Mike, but I didn't want to be the one to say it :D ;D
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MICKDE I have seen a 84 xr500 with a cr250 swing arm and rear wheel looks good im going down the same track with mine,,
Im useing a xl185 tank or rm80 tank combo because the standard tank is huge ::) I have tryed about ten tanks to fit they have a
step centre tube and its short so has been a pain >:(
I just bought an xr250 tank of Tony T. It's noticeably smaller than the 500. Gotto get it here somehow but. I wouldn't mind seeing how yours looks with the 185 tank. I bought an xr80 tank, but nahhh, not even close, buggered if I know what I was thinking with when I bought it.
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well the pie warmer (and can only be a Nato eh Shane) is settled - maybe more time and effort invested in the thoghts as to what Firko is making - one was a mobile esky - maybe we need a fast one to keep up with the pie warmer now?
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well the pie warmer (and can only be a Nato eh Shane) is settled - maybe more time and effort invested in the thoghts as to what Firko is making - one was a mobile esky - maybe we need a fast one to keep up with the pie warmer now?
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I will take pic tomorrow cheers mickde
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There you go Mick25.
I want to turn mine in to a “lean” Adventure tourer.
Bet there wouldn't be to many out there with this sort of factory “extra”.
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Thanks for posting pic for me MICKDE ;)