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  • Auldy
    Auldy
    2 years ago
    Just finishing off restoring a 1966
    Honda Dream 305 Touring
    Cheers 🍻🍻
    Auldy 
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  • keith
    keith
    2 years ago
    Nice, very 'Retro' looking.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting Auldy on 27 Dec 2021 09:39 AM

    Just finishing off restoring a 1966

    Honda Dream 305 Touring
    Cheers 🍻🍻
    Auldy 

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    Looks like a good job......USA import with the higher bars?
  • Auldy
    Auldy
    2 years ago
    Correct, I'm the third owner, the second owner imported from the States.
    I have stripped to the frame, new paint, updated to tapered roller St. Head bearings. New rims, spokes, motor vapour blasted. Engine covers and brake backing plates polished, new clutch and wiring loom, new tyres tubes and white walling.
    Voltage regulator fitted.
    My memory is exhausted, I need a beer.
    Cheers
    🍻🍻
    Auldy
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Had a quick ride thru the mountains today

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  • bloodog
    bloodog
    2 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 17 Feb 2022 09:50 AM

    Had a quick ride thru the mountains today


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    Lucky cunt
  • evo94
    evo94
    2 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 17 Feb 2022 09:50 AM

    Had a quick ride thru the mountains today


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    great pic.....getting to know all those wonderful trails now?.....id get fkg lost for sure, but maybe thats not a bad thing eh.....oh, colour coordinated helmet..
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 17 Feb 2022 09:50 AM

    Had a quick ride thru the mountains today


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    Quoting evo94 on 17 Feb 2022 08:33 PM

    great pic.....getting to know all those wonderful trails now?.....id get fkg lost for sure, but maybe thats not a bad thing eh.....oh, colour coordinated helmet..

    Yes have been lost a few times but nothing serious. That helmet is way way pre dating this bike and has been a great lid. Sadly you cant get them anymore and the lid is very close to having to be replaced. I use the same lid on my red street glide so color co ordination is out the window there. 
  • potluk
    potluk
    2 years ago
    hey guys i recently picked up a yamaha royal star as a project bike, i couldnt afford another harley so it is my pretend road king. probably a long shot but i am looking for a set of pipes for it. it is the model with four mufflers. 1999 model so getting on a bit and most of the later model stuff has only 2 exhausts. probably not the best project bike as parts are a bit rare in oz but it is fun to ride.thanks potluk
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 17 Feb 2022 09:50 AM

    Had a quick ride thru the mountains today


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    Quoting evo94 on 17 Feb 2022 08:33 PM

    great pic.....getting to know all those wonderful trails now?.....id get fkg lost for sure, but maybe thats not a bad thing eh.....oh, colour coordinated helmet..

    Quoting paulybronco on 17 Feb 2022 10:43 PM

    Yes have been lost a few times but nothing serious. That helmet is way way pre dating this bike and has been a great lid. Sadly you cant get them anymore and the lid is very close to having to be replaced. I use the same lid on my red street glide so color co ordination is out the window there. 

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  • evo94
    evo94
    2 years ago
    nice bike....correct, no matching going on there :)
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 years ago
    Found this little cutie, 1980 XL250 when I was cleaning out the Obi shed before I sold the place. I knew it was in there somewhere, just hadn't been able to see it for 10 years. It hadn't run for about 15 years, hadn't had the tyres pumped up for about 12 years. Moved it out to the old school. A couple of months ago I pumped up the tyres and a week later saw they were still holding air. Wondered if it would start. Checked the oil, poured in some 40:1 two stroke mix for top end lubrication in case it did start, kicked it over...... This isn't a fairy tale, so it didn't start.  The next day though  after pulling out an oilsoaked rotting air filter and a small dose of starting ether, the mild mannered put put putting of a Honda single filled the air.
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  • wadewilson
    wadewilson
    2 years ago
    Feck me, Obi. I have lost a couple of nuts and bolts and even a screwdriver once, but I have never lost a whole motorcycle!!!

    Looks like it would make a good farm hack or neat little restoration job to whittle away those afternoons you aren't out riding.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 25 Feb 2022 12:38 PM

    Found this little cutie, 1980 XL250 when I was cleaning out the Obi shed before I sold the place. I knew it was in there somewhere, just hadn't been able to see it for 10 years. It hadn't run for about 15 years, hadn't had the tyres pumped up for about 12 years. Moved it out to the old school. A couple of months ago I pumped up the tyres and a week later saw they were still holding air. Wondered if it would start. Checked the oil, poured in some 40:1 two stroke mix for top end lubrication in case it did start, kicked it over...... This isn't a fairy tale, so it didn't start.  The next day though  after pulling out an oilsoaked rotting air filter and a small dose of starting ether, the mild mannered put put putting of a Honda single filled the air.

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    Bet your not missing going down the obi on weeks like this Steve. 
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Just went down the obi this morning....as normal the dirt is shut and the traffic diverted via the tar side. When you get to the bottom road closed signs. Anyway heading towards your old joint EVERY bridge had water over it with the deepest perhaps only 30-60cm. When you turn left towards Kenilworth the road has gooooone!
    Anyway a 1hr ride has taken me nearly 4 with SES closing roads and penning people in but after hitting a washed out section at around 100kph decided to ease back and cruise home. Who would have thought you could have an adventure on the road!

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  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 25 Feb 2022 12:38 PM

    Found this little cutie, 1980 XL250 when I was cleaning out the Obi shed before I sold the place. I knew it was in there somewhere, just hadn't been able to see it for 10 years. It hadn't run for about 15 years, hadn't had the tyres pumped up for about 12 years. Moved it out to the old school. A couple of months ago I pumped up the tyres and a week later saw they were still holding air. Wondered if it would start. Checked the oil, poured in some 40:1 two stroke mix for top end lubrication in case it did start, kicked it over...... This isn't a fairy tale, so it didn't start.  The next day though  after pulling out an oilsoaked rotting air filter and a small dose of starting ether, the mild mannered put put putting of a Honda single filled the air.

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    Quoting paulybronco on 27 Feb 2022 03:39 AM

    Bet your not missing going down the obi on weeks like this Steve. 

    I was generally OK with doing the down road no matter what the weather, I just wasn't happy when they "repaired it" by dumping clay rich sludge on it, rolled it then put the watertruck over it before knocking off for the day. It was as slippery as greased batshit until the fines washed out. At other times....... well my 1.5km driveway was steeper.

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    One of my other bikes having a lie down on my old driveway.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 28 Feb 2022 03:06 AM

    Just went down the obi this morning....as normal the dirt is shut and the traffic diverted via the tar side. When you get to the bottom road closed signs. Anyway heading towards your old joint EVERY bridge had water over it with the deepest perhaps only 30-60cm. When you turn left towards Kenilworth the road has gooooone!

    Anyway a 1hr ride has taken me nearly 4 with SES closing roads and penning people in but after hitting a washed out section at around 100kph decided to ease back and cruise home. Who would have thought you could have an adventure on the road!

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    Hey, having adventures on the road was why I bought the land at Obi when I was 25. I had seen Easy Rider too many times and my ambition in life was to buy a place in the bush with a great swimming hole just right for filling up with naked hippie girls, ride my bikes (750 Norton then) have adventures and do what ever I had to to keep the show on the road. So I did. 
    Oh yes, and to avoid Louisiana in duck season and never drop acid with strange women in cemeteries.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 25 Feb 2022 12:38 PM

    Found this little cutie, 1980 XL250 when I was cleaning out the Obi shed before I sold the place. I knew it was in there somewhere, just hadn't been able to see it for 10 years. It hadn't run for about 15 years, hadn't had the tyres pumped up for about 12 years. Moved it out to the old school. A couple of months ago I pumped up the tyres and a week later saw they were still holding air. Wondered if it would start. Checked the oil, poured in some 40:1 two stroke mix for top end lubrication in case it did start, kicked it over...... This isn't a fairy tale, so it didn't start.  The next day though  after pulling out an oilsoaked rotting air filter and a small dose of starting ether, the mild mannered put put putting of a Honda single filled the air.

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    Quoting paulybronco on 27 Feb 2022 03:39 AM

    Bet your not missing going down the obi on weeks like this Steve. 

    Quoting obisteve on 01 Mar 2022 10:09 AMedited: 01 Mar 2022 10:12 AM

    I was generally OK with doing the down road no matter what the weather, I just wasn't happy when they "repaired it" by dumping clay rich sludge on it, rolled it then put the watertruck over it before knocking off for the day. It was as slippery as greased batshit until the fines washed out. At other times....... well my 1.5km driveway was steeper.


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    One of my other bikes having a lie down on my old driveway.
    Can relate to that but you did it every day i only "Enjoyed" it 3 or 4 times a week. The last lefthander before you got to the bottom has caught me out a few times with the off camber wet clay.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 years ago
    Yeah, that one is shaded all day, no direct sunlight at all, never dries out. 
    If you do the road every day, you end up with a pretty good idea what it will be like in any weather.
    Although you can still get surprised, turned left at end of Obi Rd headed for Kenilworth in Jan 1992? and the bridge wasn't there.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 01 Mar 2022 10:48 AM

    Yeah, that one is shaded all day, no direct sunlight at all, never dries out. 

    If you do the road every day, you end up with a pretty good idea what it will be like in any weather.
    Although you can still get surprised, turned left at end of Obi Rd headed for Kenilworth in Jan 1992? and the bridge wasn't there.

    OOPS!! Well one of those photos was from just before the bridge that i posted. I have never seen such damage over such a wide area before. One river crossing was around 8m underwater and out the back of brooloo was a inland lake...looked like what they wanted to do to the traveston area.
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