Newbie- Fallen in Love with the Helix

[Pandrop]

Jim, I am suitably impressed/ intrigued .
Andrew

[Jimo]

Basically the switches are at the base of the board so all that is necessary is to provide the missing extender button that operates the switch....Simples! ??
Trimming my material (rubber) to size is simply done using a sharp knife or surgical blade as used in modelling, simpler than trying to make such a small part out of wood. PM me for a chunk if needed.

Or maybe one could cut up and shape the thick part of a motor tyre? Difficult? - probably.

Jim

[Pandrop]

Gotcha Jim, I will keep that in mind thank you.
I had imagined a sort of black rocker type switch of the old 70's British Leyland dashboard wiper switches type thing

[Deleted User 4154]

How about this crusty old warrior; it's scruffy but but looks honest and un-messed with. All its issues are easily fixable and offers around £550 is a decent price IMO:



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Helix- ... 4422181920

[Deleted User 4154]

So one needs ‘breakdown assistance’ to get the bike home?
Of course no two breakdowns are the same.....but IF you’d had a piece of copper tube to match the exhaust hole maybe you could have made a bodge repair? ?

Sounds to easy I know.

Jim

It was one of the few things (total meltdown aside) that I wasn't able to deal with on tour, sadly. I tried using some chemical metal I had on board, but to no avail. I did add a spare manifold to the kit after that. Here, for the amusement of all who tour on modern machines, is the bag of stuff I used to carry on journeys of more than a couple of hundred miles or so:



Add some tools and fluids and you were glad of the Helix's cavernous boot!

[Jimo]

That’s some kit Jaz, - is that a rectifier as well?


Jim

[Jimo]

I’m wondering who bought that Helix.....?

Jim

[Jimo]

Pandrop, did you or didn’t you? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Helix- ... 4422181920
I’m on edge thinking about this!

Jim

[Pandrop]

The Helix was was won by ......me ! Ive just got to work out how to get it up to Yorkshire now. Ill be investigating cheap bike couriers this afternoon.

[Jimo]

Jolly well done Andrew, do keep in touch....

Jim