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June 2005 we bought a nice cornerhouse near Nijmegen. This sure wasn't planned, but well, you can't plan everything, can you? | |
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One of many reasons to buy this house: a garage! | |||||
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But before the garage could be used for what it's supposed to, its main function was ... rubbish dump. | |||||
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The house, built around 1905, needed 'intense attention'. At certain moment the toilet looked like the ones on many bike events. Well, not exactely: this one flushed, and look: toiletpaper! | |||||
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We took down some walls ... | |||||
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... and invited some creepy guys in our cellar. Even payed them! | |||||
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The garden, like the house, needed some cleaning-up. I'm not a gardener and used some unconventional ways to remove tree stumps. | |||||
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Eventually the garage could be filled with relevant stuff. I bought myself a robust (read: heavy) AI lathe. Its weight lifted the car. | |||||
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But perseverance pays. | |||||
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Next machine to buy: a mill, type Mondial Delta Hero. Where to buy these toys? Where else then on the Internet? | |||||
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So the garage was quickly filled. Luckily there was still some space left for both my bikes. On the left you see what's left of the CBX ... | |||||
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... because I took it apart to polish all the alloy. | |||||
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On eBay I bought a new kind of alloy sealer called 'ZoopSeal'. It promises to protect the alloy at least two years from corrosion; I sure hope so. | |||||
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I did some experiments with dry batteries (thanks to a very useful article in the German magazine Fighters Magazin). | |||||
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There were some electrical problems with the CBX I couldn't solve. The sparks were too irregular and too weak. So, for the first time ever, I took the CBX too a mechanic, mr. H. van Doorn. He is a Honda specialist and has a bike shop in Andelst. Is it my imagination or does the CBX look a little uncomfortable? |
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Mr. van Doorn cleared the problem. One of the main causes turned out to be the spark plug caps which resistance was too high.
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I asked my good friend and colleague Henning Waldhauer to join me for a photoshoot of the bike. He took his Nikon, I took my Olympus and we made some nice shots. Why? I had no good pictures from the bike since Stage III. | |||||
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Last but not least: many ask me about the progress on the V8 bike. Well, I'm working on it, don't worry. You know I don't show my bikes until they're finished. But okay, here's a glimpse. I'm very sorry for the lousy quality; my camera must be having a focussing problem ;-) | |||||