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 Topic: 1980 Honda MB5 |
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| idletony Replies: 15 Views: 21304 |
 Forum: Honda Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:15 pm Subject: 1980 Honda MB5 |
| You may has noticed already, but my brothers MBX80 is in this months (May edition) Classic Motorcycle Mechanics. Quite a good feature too, we seem to have been blessed with a good few two stroke featu ... | |
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| idletony Replies: 15 Views: 21304 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:33 pm Subject: 1980 Honda MB5 |
Thanks for the comments lads, we were pleased with the article (although there are a few errors in there  ) we even managed to get the editorial picture as well.
Good issue for two strokes like yo ... |
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| idletony Replies: 15 Views: 21304 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:28 am Subject: 1980 Honda MB5 |
| I learnt to ride a geared bike on a MB5 at school! We used to have a lesson called road traffic studies, we had a camino & c50 but I always loved that little MB5!
Great bike! Dan Hi Dan ... |
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| Topic: MBX80? |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:24 am Subject: MBX80? |
| if you dont mind me asking how much did you get that little lot for?
Hi Dan He paid £80 which I think is pretty good considering the amount of spares included. The guy lived about 70 miles from ... |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:34 pm Subject: MBX80? |
| I am looking for a MBX80 for restoration if anybody has one?
Saw an advert last week from a bloke selling a pair of them. Think it was in the latest Classic Mechanics magazine ? I'll see if I can f ... |
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| idletony Replies: 15 Views: 21304 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:51 am Subject: 1980 Honda MB5 |
| The mirrors on my MB5 are not genuine (they should be black in colour) but are of a Honda style. They were purchased from M&P about 5 years ago. My brothers MBX80 mirrors are from a guy on german ... | |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:35 am Subject: MBX80? |
| Very few new parts were used in the rebuild (indicators, grips, mirrors, fasteners ect) all the body work is original (apart from the tank which was rotten, an "as new" replacement was found ... | |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:15 am Subject: MBX80? |
Go on admit it, you were "just seeing how much they were going for"  Anyway, the guy says he's spent nearly £2000 on it (carn't see where) and he's done the bike an injustice by not hav ... |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:33 pm Subject: MBX80? |
| Just to give him the credit he deserves, this is how it looked when purchased from ebay.
It was originally only purchased for the wheels, but he got carried away with it! http://i182.photobucket.com ... |
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| idletony Replies: 39 Views: 74233 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:28 pm Subject: MBX80? |
| Although it's not for sale, I thought you might be interested in a couple of pictures of my brothers recently restored MBX80.
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x242/idletony/IMG_2616.jpg http://i18 ... |
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| idletony Replies: 15 Views: 21304 |
Forum: Honda Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:18 pm Subject: 1980 Honda MB5 |
Here are a few pictures of my recently restored Honda MB5. It's my original bike which I bought when I was 16 way back  in June 1980. It was purchased from Lockside Motorcycles, Castleford. Sin ... |
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