Search results for: “CL125S”


  • The Honda CL125S: Scope Creep, Irrationality, & The Economics of Project Vehicles

    The Honda CL125S: Scope Creep, Irrationality, & The Economics of Project Vehicles

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    On January 2nd of this year, Jeff asked us all what our project car resolutions were for 2019. I said, “Finish the ’74 Honda CL125S by fall.” I’m happy to report that I did keep that resolution. About a month ago, I finished the bike. As in, for-real finished it. Running, riding, streetable, not-leaking-anything, no-loose-wires…


  • Project Bike SOTU: Honda CL125S

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    I got stranded. Less than a week after this Honda CL125S’s SOTU post last year, the bike developed a high-RPM miss on my commute in to work. It was worse when I took the bike to lunch. It wouldn’t start at all after work. I kicked it and bump-started it with hardly a pop. I…


  • Project Bike SOTU 2017: Honda CL125S

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    IT LIVES! Having just come back from a cruise through my neighborhood, I can report with some excitement that my ’74 Honda CL125S is officially back on the road. Regular readers will recall from past Project Car SOTU articles that I bought this bike in April of 2014 in an attempt to recapture the sensations…


  • Project Car SOTU 2016: 1974 Honda CL125S

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    About two months ago, I took my other project bike on its maiden voyage — a whopping 19 miles to the KC Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club’s Spring Show and back. The bike cruised quite nicely at 45-50 MPH and handled just fine, though the brakes are a whole lot weaker than I remember them being…


  • Project Car SOTU: Bultakenstein & The Honda CL125S

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    Over the years that I’ve been dabbling with my project Bultaco, a certain annual rhythm has evolved. Around the middle of November, my workshop time erodes as my spare time and money starts getting earmarked for holiday get-togethers and Christmas shopping. Once the holidays are over and the credit cards are paid off, usually sometime…


  • Project Car SOTU: Bultakenstein & The Honda CL125S

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    My custom Bultaco roadster project, which I began in earnest over 2-1/2 years ago, is still not quite a roller. Readers familiar with the project would be excused for thinking that things have stalled, however “stalled” isn’t really an applicable term to this project, given its nearly glacial development. Like one of NASA’s crawler-transporters headed…


  • Two-Wheel Tuesday: Honda CL125S – A New Addition To The Garage

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    Last week I bought a Honda CL125S, the same model as the first motorcycle model I ever owned. The CL125 was the faux-scrambler version of the long-lived CB125 street bike. It was only made two years, 1973 and 1974. Other than the very cool looking high pipe and the bits and brackets that accommodate it,…


  • False Neutral Podcast #116 – Hurricanes & Speed Holes

    False Neutral Podcast #116 – Hurricanes & Speed Holes

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    This month’s episode discussion starts off with a question from a listener, then bounces between our projects and various other motorcycles, both new and old. Along the way, Garrett fills us in on his new laser engraver, and we discuss some of the YouTube bike videos we’ve been enjoying lately. The Ari & Zack YouTube…


  • Two-Wheel Tuesday: Meet “The Bride”

    Two-Wheel Tuesday: Meet “The Bride”

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    Longtime Hooniverse readers know that I’ve been building a Bultaco-engined custom street bike for the last decade or so. Along the way, there were tons of false starts, second-guessing, and revisions. As a result, I had a lot of cast-off parts I had purchased for that project filling the shelves of my rather cramped workshop.…


  • Ten Years Later: New tools, new skills, new friends

    Ten Years Later: New tools, new skills, new friends

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    Ten years ago, I was driving a 1992 Lincoln Town Car, a hand-me-down from my mother-in-law less than a year earlier, and a 2002 Ford F-150 Super Crew. I was about to end a twelve-year-long hiatus from motorcycles, during which I had devoted my spare time and workshop space to a trio of older, two-stroke…