What a start to the month…. Following last months Bristol and West Bike Show I got a mention and a few pictures in the quarterly VJMC (Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club) magazine called “Tansha” which was a nice surprise.







Almost six months ago I contacted the UK Honda Owners Club as I read they were attending and showing at the annual Kickback and Custom show held at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern which isn’t too far away from me and withing spitting distance of where Zeus lives, so being local-ish I could ride there without the hassle of a van or trailer etc.


During my conversation with Jude from the Honda Owners club we discussed the bike and the rebuild journey along with the fact that I had documented it on NSR World, which being a Honda exclusive platform was bang on the money for them and having shared the QR code they kindly featured my bike in their quarterly magazine with a full page given over to my once rusty neglected wreck that had languished in my dad garage for 25 years before being resurrected







The show which has now come and gone proved to be very popular and featured a ton of bikes and cars with both time and an obscene amount of money seemingly lavished upon them, now I’ve never been a fan of RD350LC’s but jesus was there some sweet modded ones on show with Ohlins USD’s and cool paint jobs, felt my head being turned before I came back to my senses.


The old dog also made the local paper when the reporter covering the show, stopped at the HOC stand and spoke with the team.



After a quick clean and wipe over to get rid of the dust from riding the bike to the show and across the gravel car park she looked good and held her own!




One end of one shed




The winner of the most Original Vintage Classic Bike was this Honda CB500 a very worthy winner and absolutely mint, especially considering where the journey began with one rust bucket.



One of the many RD’s this one had a zip painted down the middle and wore different paint on either side





This Old Katana was equally eye catching




when viewed thought my rose tinted glasses this little AR125 was both mint and exactly how I remember mine from 1987 – okay whilst mine was just like this and at the time only two years old it had been down the road a few times




Rothmans – ten a penny






As for the rest of the show here’s one bike with TWO engines




Honda CBR anyone ?- this ones got Lister Diesel engine from a cement mixer







Zooped up lawn mower anyone ? Fastest one around


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Nick

Rebuild project NSR250 MC18 R4J

Too Tall Terry! Brilliant. Amazing you found the issue of the cold starting. I finally got some carb insulators from Greece but they took forever pretty sure they were for an MC-16 (which had 28mm carbs) because it took some heat, some grease and some sweat and tears to get the 32mm carbs into them...not sure how smart that is but I couldn't face looking for another set.