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Capitano
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by Capitano » Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:56 pm
Diesel Dave wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:59 pm
Ah that may be a Honda.....250 Foresight.
First Auto collected yesterday.
Gotta wait till next week for the 750
I think that Richie means the DT200R in the background of the photo of the red 400A.

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Diesel Dave
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by Diesel Dave » Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:40 am
Newtsalad wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:05 pm
Lovely bikes mate, but I cannot abide Comstar wheels. You gotta come up and see me. I'm lonely too.
I’m not overly fond of them but scrapping a 400/4 for the wheels tends to get frowned upon...
I’m sure there used to be a company that made conversion kits to turn Comstars into spoked; but my memory isn’t the finest....
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by Diesel Dave » Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:40 am
Capitano wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:56 pm
Diesel Dave wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:59 pm
Ah that may be a Honda.....250 Foresight.
First Auto collected yesterday.
Gotta wait till next week for the 750
I think that Richie means the DT200R in the background of the photo of the red 400A.
Lord help me, I’m just not that bright....

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by Bogger » Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:32 pm
I concur
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by Newtsalad » Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:01 pm
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by Diesel Dave » Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:34 pm
I’ve seen it but......jeez that’s a lot of wedge....
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by Diesel Dave » Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:45 am
Soooooooo............
I just had to find out...
Ok ok, I needed to do that just to get to the balancer chain tension adjuster.
Its a pretty little thing.

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by Capitano » Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:36 am
Diesel Dave wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:40 am
I’m sure there used to be a company that made conversion kits to turn Comstars into spoked; but my memory isn’t the finest....
I think that they are still around and still doing it.
I shouldn't imagine it's a sustainable business model in its own right but if you have the tooling, materials and expertise and they are still around in small numbers ...
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... ersion.pdf
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by Capitano » Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:38 am
Following on from t'post above, I have quite a fondness (retro empathy) for Comstars.
This is the actual company offering the conversions:
https://www.caferacerkits.co.uk/
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by wightegi » Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:04 am
Still running in Ryde on the Isle , I saw one of his CX cafe jobs years ago .