[Kjeldahl]

Got a new negative scanner lately, and did a trawl through old negatives. One thing about negatives is you forget the images entirely, the original photos were either given away, lost , discarded or otherwise forgotten. So this one caught my eye. my first bike, purchased from Jack Wall in kilkenny, and driven home with just basic instructions as to how to start it, change gear and where the brakes were. Note the wide handlebars, and the crash bars. Have great memories of this auld girl.......bought it when I was 19 (1973) and sold it on later to a chap from Callan.
 CD175A3 (UK model) Like the K3, except it has low handlebars and no electric start..jpg (1022.84K)
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[Kelpie]

Cool! My mum had some of the many of my late Dad's negatives processed recently. She found some super pics we'd completely forgotten about.

[jimgoose]

That's magnificent.

[finchie]

BRING BACK YOUR YOUTH!!! check this out!!!

cd 175 for sale mint condition

[BeerBaron]

Thats Lovely !

Im building a garage at the moment, ive always wanted a CD175, depending on what pennies i have left at the end im going to try and pick one up ! I';ll have somewhere to keep it warm and dry at least.

[Alan]

Nice find - that was my first bike too...

[Inadzuma]

Kjeldahl, on 13 September 2011 - 01:06 PM, said:

Got a new negative scanner lately,

Slightly off topic but what scanner did you get?? I've thousands of slides and 35mm negatives that I really need to do

something with

zuma

[Tazzzie]

finchie, on 13 September 2011 - 02:32 PM, said:

BRING BACK YOUR YOUTH!!! check this out!!!

cd 175 for sale mint condition

Awww, thats poor mean tempting the poor fells like that

I think there are two of these in various states of disrepair at my mom-in-laws gaff - thats the noddy isnt it ? For some reason I thought they were a CB175n - maybe I am just getting mixed up.
One of 'em is just a frame at this stage, the other one, god knows what state its in. Must take a gander at some point.......

Anyway, the pic came out really well, so nice one !

[gdhat]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh brings a tear to the eye thats how I got into chopping bikes exhausts rotted off them and the handlebars were tiny. On the bright side I did manage to write off a mk1 escort with one that`s when I discovered I could fly {never did get the landing bit rigth though}but at least I walked{limped}ok crawled away from it.

[Kjeldahl]

Inadzuma, on 13 September 2011 - 03:40 PM, said:

Slightly off topic but what scanner did you get?? I've thousands of slides and 35mm negatives that I really need to do

something with

zuma

It's a "Veho smartfix" 5 megapixel with a 2.4" colour screen. I thought about getting one without a screen, but it's handy to be able to work away from the computer.

[Kjeldahl]

Tazzzie, on 13 September 2011 - 05:04 PM, said:

Awww, thats poor mean tempting the poor fells like that

I think there are two of these in various states of disrepair at my mom-in-laws gaff - thats the noddy isnt it ? For some reason I thought they were a CB175n - maybe I am just getting mixed up.
One of 'em is just a frame at this stage, the other one, god knows what state its in. Must take a gander at some point.......

Anyway, the pic came out really well, so nice one !

Tazzie, I would have said CB175 myself but I found a website yesterday [can't find it now] where all the versions are listed, and that version looked identical to mine ie CD175A3 released only in UK and Ireland. There were lots and lots of variations. The standard bars were really tiny so I opted for wider "scrambler" bars.

Ah here it is..... http://www.microvers.../cd_gallery.htm

This post has been edited by Kjeldahl: 13 September 2011 - 06:50 PM

[nab301]

Afaik cd is single carb and in general on old Hondas CB was/is one carb per cylinder, or twin carb in this case. CB's of the 175 variety being quite rare...

[Chris P. Bacon]

CD had a 4 speed gearbox while the twin carbed CB was 5 speed, alas the CB was never officially imported for sale by the then agency Reg Armstrong on Ringsend Road.

Getting all rosey eyed here......

I bought my first 'Noddy' in 1981 for the massive sum of £350 [remember my monthly pay was about £160 back then] which was a lovely fresh 4 year old bike off a neighbour and was my main transport for the following 8 years. Stripped it a couple of times, polished the alloy casings, kept it dam clean and resprayed it a metallic Ford Evergreen...closest thing to British Racing Green.

A few years after that I heard of another low mileage one owner 'Nod' [a priest!] who had one in a garden shed - needless to say I snapped it up straight there and then. Had every additional extra [windshield, panniers, topbox, crashbars, original toolkit, owners handbook, even the service history!] Rode that one on and off till 2000 and left it stored in the Dad's garage till I sold it on just a few years back (€400) - regretted it big time as we loaded in the back of the new owners van Suppose I planned to restore it one day, but never found the time, as I was running three other bikes back then. As you can see it gathered up plenty of dust while in storage!




I guess the nickname Nod/Noddy/Nodster kinda stuck eversince

[Tazzzie]

Chris P. Bacon, on 13 September 2011 - 10:23 PM, said:

I guess the nickname Nod/Noddy/Nodster kinda stuck eversince

Indeed.
Cris
P
Bacon


But back on topic, I'll try swing by and get pics from the dragons den and see whats what there. I do know she sent the "owners manual" into the bin - sure what would I want that for

"Mo - Its probably the only thing worth a few quid pet"

[John Mathew]

Honda's 175HP engine is a 3.5 Liter, 60 degree V6, packaged in a beautifully compact design. It offers all the power you'll ever need with less fuel, thanks to Honda's lean burn technology.
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[Playtime]

The 2nd boike i ever owned was a CD 175 same colour blue an all

brings back some good memories all roight

[Chris P. Bacon]

Just bought a photo scanner last night and having a ball going through a few shoeboxes of photo's going back over 3 decades. Full story in my above post

my first



and my last