Hey Steve F !
How does it run you ask ? Uh, well, uhhhmmm, errrrrr...........
As I was typing this post, I realized I could deliver a one liner or worse yet - no response at all. But since it's winter and some of us may have a little more free time than others....... Heck, I'll go for it !!!!
I'll bet this post could potentially open another can of worms, just as entertaining as the posts on the Lotus Roots and front fender. We shall see. Prefer not, but if it does, oh well. Call me anything, just don't call me late for dinner.
Guys, I'll do my best to be entertaining.
O.K. Let me be crystal clear - I AM one of "those" (maddening to some people) guys who irritatingly doesn't plan (yet) to use 232 as Honda intended, i.e., motorcycles are for riding. Aggravating to some, how well I know. Been there, wore out that T-shirt. (Speaking of T-shirts, KP.......)
Steve - You caught me - 232's a closet queen. Yup, at least, to date, that's right - She's an unstarted, unridden closet queen under a clear plastic cover, in a heated room, resting by 4363 who has 748.6 miles on the clock. I ask, what good am I ? (NOT looking for an answer to this question, heh, heh)
I could share the gory details of the whys and wherefores I'm choosing to hold the bike in such sick and twisted bondage, but shan't. Let's just go with I am one of "those" sick and twisted individuals.
Said another way, I don't want to afford the undertaking of putting the bike on the road. There are men of far better character than me ("hondasan," "deacon.") These men are truly designed for such gallant endeavour; this I know. And, that's ok with me. At the least, "hondasan and "deacon" are two admirable men. Live and let live, I say.
I'm content in knowing E254 is completely new inside; rebuilt by a friend who's a machinist and an AMA racing engine builder the past 35 years. The engine will start and run, just fine, I know for fact.
We all have our reasons we ride or don't ride a bike we restore.
As far as what exhaust type are installed, let's just say, to the best of my research and knowledge, to date, the only parts on the bike not correct are the cables for the speedo and tach. They are not the early short ferrule nut type. They are the later long ferrule nut type. And, one carb cap is not a #28, it's the later type cap I machined to fit along with a later slide I turned the length down in my handy little Enco lathe. I am embarrassed to tell what I paid for the early #28 caps, slides, ring nuts and 4:1 small diameter throttle cable. Where there's a need, there's a desire. Where there's a nut, there's usually a tree nearby - or, at least some squirrels.
Yes, I am one of the crazies who incomprehensibly paid the bucks for a set of Yamiya Lotus Roots and darn glad I did. Grateful I did not have to put a $400 used set of exhaust on my bike or a $1200 set of new Honda 'paragraphs.' Damn thankful Yamiya made the Lotus Roots. Damn thankful I was able to afford to purchase a set 2.5 years ago when I did. I hear through the 'grapevine,' Yamiya is having a production run of 10 sets made for $2850 a set. (News of such a price might give doug21 a nose bleed, does me. Might give Steve F a nosebleed too; as I recall, you bought a set of Lotus Roots when I did....?)
steve swan
PS - Come back doug21, get a little more lovin.' Miss you. Come back...