Hi folks
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:22 am
Hi all,
Been around bikes for more than 50 years but very new to C90s so advice may be requested at some point in the future. Looking through existing posts I think I should be able to find most things here!
Got the C90 completely by chance - I have big plans to get another of my bikes back on the road as a kind of compensation for having eye surgery which has changed my life. That's going to involve a re-spray and my compressor's motor is fubar. In any case, it really needs more grunt than anything I can afford so I was hazily thinking of maybe using a petrol engine out of a generator or something - they're usually about 6.5 HP and duff gennies with no output aren't usually expensive on the Bay.
Couple of years ago a very good friend said his bike had failed the MOT so he'd bought a brand new Lexmoto something or other - said he was going to give the other bike to the scrapman. I promptly forgot about it as I thought it was a done deal. We meet up as part of a group most months so I was chatting to him a couple of months ago when I mentioned the bike I want back on the road and my idea with the generator motor, when he asked me if I wanted the C90. My first response was to laugh - like, 'Yeah, right . . . ' but he told me he'd kept it. Asked how much he wanted for it and he said he just wanted it out of the way. I thanked him, and started trying to clear some room at home - I'm a terrible hoarder. At this point I was thinking about using the engine to power the compressor, but then I started thinking about fixing it up and using it on the road myself. I knew that the MOT fail was caused by corrosion to the rear mudguard area - looked it up on YouTube and found a video showing a successful fix. Worst case - if I can't fix it I've still got an engine for the compressor . . .
Still don't have any room, but I went and picked the bike up yesterday. He was the second owner since 2000, having bought it in 2002 and put nearly 30,000 on the clock commuting to and from work and to Oulton Park every weekend during the season. It's been outside since he bought the other bike, but under a lean-to so out of direct rain. There's some surface rust but hey, it's 18 years old. The worst is on the exhaust but I could live with it; the rest should succumb to Solvol Autosol and wire wool. He's been starting the bike regularly and it started second kick yesterday.
There is a hidden cost - while we were putting the C90 on the trailer he asked me if I knew any blacksmiths. 'Blacksmiths?' I asked, 'Why do you need a blacksmith . . . ?' Turns out the exhaust hanger bracket on the Lexmoto thing has fatigued and he wants it repairing. He's been on to the importer and the part would be £30 if they had it but it's on back order so he wondered if it could be repaired. He knows full well I can weld (I've welded bits of mowers for him . . . ) so it's going to take me a couple of hours to drive to his, remove the bracket, bring it to mine to weld and return it. Cheap at half the price if you ask me . . .
Been around bikes for more than 50 years but very new to C90s so advice may be requested at some point in the future. Looking through existing posts I think I should be able to find most things here!
Got the C90 completely by chance - I have big plans to get another of my bikes back on the road as a kind of compensation for having eye surgery which has changed my life. That's going to involve a re-spray and my compressor's motor is fubar. In any case, it really needs more grunt than anything I can afford so I was hazily thinking of maybe using a petrol engine out of a generator or something - they're usually about 6.5 HP and duff gennies with no output aren't usually expensive on the Bay.
Couple of years ago a very good friend said his bike had failed the MOT so he'd bought a brand new Lexmoto something or other - said he was going to give the other bike to the scrapman. I promptly forgot about it as I thought it was a done deal. We meet up as part of a group most months so I was chatting to him a couple of months ago when I mentioned the bike I want back on the road and my idea with the generator motor, when he asked me if I wanted the C90. My first response was to laugh - like, 'Yeah, right . . . ' but he told me he'd kept it. Asked how much he wanted for it and he said he just wanted it out of the way. I thanked him, and started trying to clear some room at home - I'm a terrible hoarder. At this point I was thinking about using the engine to power the compressor, but then I started thinking about fixing it up and using it on the road myself. I knew that the MOT fail was caused by corrosion to the rear mudguard area - looked it up on YouTube and found a video showing a successful fix. Worst case - if I can't fix it I've still got an engine for the compressor . . .
Still don't have any room, but I went and picked the bike up yesterday. He was the second owner since 2000, having bought it in 2002 and put nearly 30,000 on the clock commuting to and from work and to Oulton Park every weekend during the season. It's been outside since he bought the other bike, but under a lean-to so out of direct rain. There's some surface rust but hey, it's 18 years old. The worst is on the exhaust but I could live with it; the rest should succumb to Solvol Autosol and wire wool. He's been starting the bike regularly and it started second kick yesterday.
There is a hidden cost - while we were putting the C90 on the trailer he asked me if I knew any blacksmiths. 'Blacksmiths?' I asked, 'Why do you need a blacksmith . . . ?' Turns out the exhaust hanger bracket on the Lexmoto thing has fatigued and he wants it repairing. He's been on to the importer and the part would be £30 if they had it but it's on back order so he wondered if it could be repaired. He knows full well I can weld (I've welded bits of mowers for him . . . ) so it's going to take me a couple of hours to drive to his, remove the bracket, bring it to mine to weld and return it. Cheap at half the price if you ask me . . .