looks like the hardware attaches to the center section of the handlebar,


windshield rotates up/down...






I like this fairing, much better looking than the MRA windshield Im using.
anyone using this fairing ?

Gentlemen,

I mentioned in another thread that I had ordered and taken delivery of a new yellow Honda Monkey bike. At the time I ordered one I had only seen pictures and had never sat on or even laid eyes on the actual bike. I have in the last couple months, reacquired my son Charley's first motorcycle, a 1996 Honda Z-50 and restored it to brand-new. Before putting it on display I rode that actual monkey bike all over my neighborhood several days in a row. I looked like an idiot but it was great fun.

With that recent experience on an actual Honda Monkey bike when I went down to pick up my new one I was surprised at how big it was! Compared to the original monkey bikes this thing is huge and clearly made for adult riders. Compared to the original Monkey bikes, this is a Gorilla bike. The photo below shows the size difference between the Z50 and the new Z125. The car in the background is my brand-new 2.0 L turbocharged Honda Accord Sport with a six-speed manual transmission. It's fun too but that's another story.

I finally had a chance to put about 30 miles on it today and this little bike is about as much fun as you can have at 20 to 35 mph. My home is at 1600 feet elevation in Scottsdale, Arizona. The paint and build quality is outstanding. The little bike starts instantly and all the controls work like you would expect on a Honda. The shifter was a little bit notchy and didn't have the crisp feel of most Hondas but perhaps when I put a few more miles on it that will improve.

It's not real powerful for a 125 but it pulls cleanly from very low rpm. Even though it's big for a monkey bike it still gave me the cool feeling I had as a kid riding my minibikes. I found myself subconsciously scanning the road for police cars so I could duck down a side street so I wouldn't be pulled over for riding an unlicensed/non-street legal minibike on the street and had to remind myself that this thing has a license plate and I'm perfectly legal.

The seat is huge and soft, bigger and more comfortable than the seating area on a CB1100. The ride is smooth at any speed and the engine is relaxed and smooth up to 35 miles an hour, beyond that it starts to feel busy. I haven't run it to top speed yet but I'm sure it will hit 50 mph.

I know some others here have complained about tires, suspension, and brakes but I do not share those concerns. This is a low performance urban toy, not a serious motorcycle. I am 5' 11' and 195 pounds and this bike was both comfortable and hauled me around easily but I wouldn't want to take it out on the highway. The brakes on my non-ABS model are fantastic. The rear brake works better than the one on my CB1100. The tires are fine for this low-speed bike. And the relatively soft suspension makes the bike comfortable. Up to 25 mph the suspension soaked up the impact of rain gutters that run across the street in my area without bottoming. At 35 mph the rear shock would bottom out so I just slowed down to hit them a little softer.

The new monkey bike is living proof that motorcycles can be great fun at low speeds. If you want feel like a little kid again this new Z125 will certainly take you there. This is a different kind of performance, 0 to 12 years old in 5 seconds. The bike doesn't need any performance modifications. The stock exhaust will never aggravate your neighbors no matter how many times you ride around the block. Hopping this thing up would be like training a French Bulldog to race. Even if you made it marginally faster it will still be slow.

Bottom line, I love this thing. It's a blast. I'll take it to go get hamburgers or to pick something up from the store. Mainly, I'll just take it out and ride it once in a while to take my mind off work. I won't need to go far or for very long. Even if my office was close I'd be reluctant to ride this thing to work for fear that somebody would pick it up and and haul it away in the back of their pickup truck.

Like the original Z50's, the Z125 is a toy. A really fun toy for adults. All the best.

Chip

Someone just sent me this link I will have to go here this summer.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky...u252LCeCD0

Ferret have you been here?

howdy folks, I'm back at it again with the '80's flair. This time it's time to swap that big chrome front fender for something more period appropriate. The original in question looks like this (marked #5 on the picture, far right):





the shape is unique, but i'm fairly certain that the original will not bolt into place on my '14 CB1100. So, does anybody have any suggestions? nothing on Samurider or Webike seems to quite correctly resemble the fender in question, except perhaps the MIZ fender, but even that isn't really close enough to wow me. Does anybody have any experience with getting a body part like this made by a shop? What's the right way to go?

Thanks!

edit:

This is the MIZ fender for reference

I was a student in College - the state of Illinois, city of Naperville. It was a beautiful, warm spring day and, a Friday at that, no more classes. I wanted to head out on a ride and forget about study.

My brother was a student in college in central Illinois: Champagne-Urbana. Now, when I started out that afternoon, my trickster brain had me thinking to just catch some rural roads and country air. I was on my CB 350 in a T-shirt & jeans, running shoes and, this was a "no helmet law" state so . . .

I think, if you go back far enough in my genetic history, there's some residual dinosaur linage.

So, Trickster Brain says to me - he says, "Hey, it's so friggin' lovely out, let's extend the ride. Let's run down to see your brother". Which I do. I was so happy in that sweet air . . . intoxicated some might say. I had a couple of hours peace and happiness under those big, blue skies of the great plains farm land.

Brother is happy to see me. It's a Friday night and we go out and get burgers. We shuffel a while but brother is just like me: way behind in dating mental apparatus so, no parties to go to and no idea where to chase some down.

It's about dusk when I gives him a hug and hops on the bike to head home. It's just beautiful out.

Ya know those little black bowling balls one would turn upside down and a comment floats to the surface? . . . My brain was working like that (consistently, when outside a classroom). The message was, "It's getting really chilly!"

Not long afterward the surfacing message was, "Damn. It's cold!" I stop for coffee - multiple times. -Cue in The Commodors singing, "Once, Twice, Three Times a Dummy."

It was not working so good: hot liquid warming up the internals. The message floating up to the top of my little black ball now said, "Hey, let's get off the freeway and take side roads at lower speed to reduce the wind chill."

I got lost just somewhere outside of greater Chicago which, can be quite a ways out in rural settings. Thought I knew relatively where I was but I managed a disturbing consistency of hitting dead-end roads. During this tour, I crossed great canals, stockyards and dormant farmer's airstrips, disturbed nesting birds and flushed out more than my share of deer & elk. I was so screwed. I added an extra hour to hour and a half to my travel time. Mine was an inland college in a farm state with, generally, a grid-like road system so, no maritime star navigational elective courses in my repertoire to bail me out of this jam I was in.

I made it back to the college house where I was renting a room. I could barely lift a leg to get off the CB; I was so stiff and cold. I went up the steps to the outside porch and managed to manipulate the hands to extract a key and eventually turn the latch. My room was up a flight of stairs but, that looked like way too much effort and, there was this big sofa just a few steps away. I remembered to shut the front door.

I got on that sofa, curled up in a fetal position and passed out, shaking violently. Stronger men than me normally would have passed away in hypothermia during the remainder of that night's passing but, God wanted Mac Donald's to prosper in those early years and, there were so many needy motorcycle dealerships requiring customers . . . and finance companies just starting out in this harsh and sometimes forgiving world.

For those, who are interested in European rental our beloved CB1100....inquiry sent.

https://www.pautravelmoto.com/en/rent-yo...cb1100-ex/

does any one know if Honda 10 30 motorcycle oil is ok for a Honda 2001 generator?

https://amcn.com.au/editorial/50-years-of-hondas-cb750/

Hi guys

So, I have been searching for quality side/saddle bags since I got the bike, and come to the conclusion that there are not too many options.. I have seen a few reviews about the Legend Gear from SW Motech, although not for the CB, but decided to get a pair.

The other option was the Hepco & Becker C-Bow Legacy, priced similarly, but while the Motech has decent UK sellers (I ordered from motolegends), the H&B was only available from Germany via eBay, (at least the black one which I would go for).

The bags are really nicely constructed, quite roomy, relatively easy to mount on, and really stylish. They are not cheap, but I've ordered cheap luggage before for my previous bikes, and regret that.

I would say I am happy with this purchase, but there are few things to be considered before buying:
1. Neither the bag and the mounting plate can be locked. It was not really a deal breaker for me as I do not park on public roads, If I do, I could just unclip the bags and take them with me...
2. I wish it was a little more low profile... I think it sticks out a little more and sits a little higher than I would like it to be. Nothing can be perfect I guess

Overall, they are a really nice pair of bags, sure it will come handy either on long tours or on my daily commute.

Hello everyone. I joined last August when I got the bike. So far, it has been great. However, the last couple of days I have noticed that the idle is around 1600 rpm's. (2013 just over 10K miles). I've been reading around and I see that this is a fairly common problem but the answers I find are all over the place. I'm asking - does anyone have the solution?