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Over 50 attendees showed up for the ICOA Winter Rally and no one left for home disappointed. Repairs on CBXs were the reason for this event, but spending quality time with everyone that attended was another priority.
The CBXMan facility was shocking.............as in amazing. Housed in a tidy building the size of a Walmart some of us kept getting lost. It was all there...helmets, gloves, jacket, boots, scooters, sport bikes and ofcourse more CBX stuff than most of us have ever seen in one place.
I lost track of the number of motor rebuilds that took place. Dennis, Susan and the other CBXMan employees went for pizza both days for lunch, ran the business for regular customers and ofcourse had 4 work bays set up for CBXs. We had a group dinner Saturday night that was attended by everyone. Food was great and reasonably priced.
These photos capture just a small part of the excitement, friendship and comradery of this event and I am already looking forward to next years event which is only 363 days from now.
Thisssssssssssssssss wasssssssssssssssssss reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly amazing. I will do another post mid-week once I get some recover a bit and get a few hours sleep.
Mike
Just part of CBXMan massive facility
One of four ongoing Tech Sessions
Andy Gillen: Is there going to be another CBXMan winter rally next weekend?
Bill Elliott, Mike Cecchini, JP Grasmuck. Bill is looking pretty good for a guy that got no sleep all three days of the rally!
Bob Buehler: If I don't get my turbo and fuel injection to work
soon I will trade the X in for one of those 50cc scooters.
Brian Weis: Brian's solution for the Dawgie might be something like this..... pass me a gas can and some matches!!!
Carl Caemmerer telling Rip and Ian Foster: Listen close....if I squeeze my hands together just like this, doesn't it sound exactly like a Bassani pipe on an X !!!
Welcome to the real Dawg Pound. Susan McCarney artwork depicts modest clues that Dawgie was
ready to battle progress at every opportunity and won most of the time!!! Frustrations mounted on
day two and secret plans were overheard to take it to the parking lot as part of a bonfire party.
Dave McMunn. "Da Dawgie has Beef Jerky gaskets. I thought I had seen it all"
Dennis McCartney: Great Rally, 50 plus attendees and he should be smiling.
Dodge Viper piston rings really do work on a CBX big bore kit......take my word on it!!!
Jack Gutshall: Heyyyyyy, when do the dancers come back from their break?
Jeff Bennetts: No wonder the Dawgie won't idle, I think I see a chili dog in there
JP to Mark Sproul: No need to be so sad now, not even you can get those oval pistons to work in a CBX
No Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy................he did get the oval pistons to work!!!
Time for lunch again
4 motor rebuilds in 6 hours....just what is Mark smiling about
Mickey Cohen, Ripper and Bill Hertling
MikeC. "You are kidding...right....no one really backed their CBX transporter over my car......did they?
Great pics Mike. Nice to see some old faces again but really great to see Mick Cohen back in action. Rip looks good in that pink helmet. I guess the next thing is he will paint one of his 9 cbx`s pink. :twisted:
Too bad it was so far away, I could have had fun rebuilding CBX motors. I have one and a half that I need to make one, that would have been a good days work.
cbxtc6 wrote:Boy, you SOB's sure are getting OLD!!! So much grey.....
Thats the reason we need all those CBX's that are sitting around in peoples spare rooms to be released from their exile and sold to some new blood if there not going to being ridden.
Once the new website is launched I think we'll be seeing some younger members coming online. I just hope the CBX's don't become too expensive too soon and prohibit the next generation from buying them.
Jeff Bennetts wrote:That's the reason we need all those CBX's that are sitting around in peoples spare rooms to be released from their exile and sold to some new blood if there not going to being ridden....some younger members coming online. I just hope the CBX's don't become too expensive too soon and prohibit the next generation from buying them.
jb
Speaking as a member of generation neXt, amen brother. If you're not going to ride them then put the bikes and parts out there for us neXters. I wish I could have attended the rally. I have an old girl that would have benefitted from all that "Old Timer" knowledge and attention, just kidding.
1982 Honda CBX - Mobile and loving it
1981 GS1100EX - Undergoing rebuild
1981 GS1100EX - Rolling rebuild
Why two GS11s? A man doesn't feel like a man unless he has a big pair.
Thanks for the many reviews. The wealth of collective experience was surely a missed opportunity for those who could not attend (like me!). Here's hoping I will make the next one so I can meet the "X" family.
