Maggot...

[jonathan]

No apologies needed, I fully expect to have the piss taken with a CX. It’s the old thing; I had one when I was at university and loved it, they really are a great bike I got done for speeding on the M4, the policeman said they had chased me for 5 miles and he was going to put it down as 98mph ‘to save my licence’, not bad for a little 500!
Looks like it may be sold based on the enquiry I had on day one of the advert, there’s definitely a niche market out there.
As a BA pilot.....and on the 747.... I think you can see why a few things may have to move on!!

[jonathan]

Sold! £6k. Not bad for a Maggot. Unfortunately the sums aren’t great overall but there we are....

[chrisNI]

It was a nice job - credit to you hopefully the new owner will be happy

[dave cullen]

interesting thread, bike looked really nice, prices, well opening myself up here but i love the H***a CD175, it was my first bike after a fizzy, and i owned 5 over the years, wouldn't mind another but i've seen them at 3k, which is just nuts for a bike that cost £315 new in 75.

re the CX, i spent about 10days in London in the early 80's and fancied a run around, you could hire CX's quite easily from bike hire firms down there, so i had one for the week, and in the weekend went around the south coast on it, was very nice to drive i have to say.

Each to their own

[moizeau]

There seem to loads over here, in various guises, mainly café racer / bobber / scrambler, but also a few Turbos

https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche/?cat ... H****%20cx

Strangely the originals seem to be cheaper?

[ADRIAN H]

There seem to loads over here, in various guises, mainly café racer / bobber / scrambler, but also a few Turbos

https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche/?cat ... H****%20cx

Strangely the originals seem to be cheaper?

It’s strange that there are any still about.

[Mr Bump]

I never quite saw why they have a sort of legendary 'couriers choice' status. Admittedly I was a courier in the late 90's so most 'working' CX's had died by then, but anybody I knew who'd used them for dispatching didn't like them much.

I think they were just cheap, available and easy to put a top box on.

They weren't notably reliable either as far as I know (BMW's aren't all that they're cracked up to be either), and a stator change was an engine out job. Frame rot finished them off if they lasted long enough - if you saw a CX parked outside a post room on its mainstand that meant the sidestand had pulled out of the frame, if you saw one leant against a wall the mainstand mounts had collapsed too and it only had a couple of weeks left before it was going to the great bramble patch in the sky.

I'm biased, but the most stubbornly reliable bikes Ive ever owned (including a bmw r1100gs that was a pain in the arse) have been aircooled 550 and 750 Kawasaki. The brakes were annoyingly keen on corroding, but otherwise they never really died, they just sort of deteriorated into a smokey-rotten-exhaust-bald-tyred mess that just wasn't worth pushing through another mot, even though it still started on the button and ran quite well.

[dave cullen]

I think the GT750 in particular took over the courier role from the CX with its shaft drive, they did phenomenal mileages, although I remember an article where a magazine stripped down a Fazer 600 with 300000 on the clock which had been doing courier work between Scotland and England for several years and it was in pretty good nick!

[steve452]

I had a GT750 when I was a courier in the '80's. IIRC most of the guys with Kwackers had the GT550, invariably a blue one. Absolutely bullet proof bike.