Show us your Monkey Bike..

not monkey but does get a lot of attention
 

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Not a monkey either. Most people think it’s an old one at first glance. The black plated helps.
 

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More Upgrades

Latest upgrades to the Monkey, Sat Nav and heated grips, this is now the go to bike above all others.
 

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I had this delivered on Saturday

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Nice bike couple of bits of advice / suggestions.

If its new dont be tempted to do an early oil change like I did at 200 miles because the oil discoloured. Honda ship these with mineral oil for the first 600 miles to allow the engine to bed in.

Avoid the monkey bike Facebook page , you will end up maxing out your credit card on Takegawa bling!

The original V rubber tyres are ok in the dry but a bit sketchy in the wet, I switched to Heidenau K 60’s at about 1200 miles.

Gearing , on the monkey forums upwards of 75% of folk junk the rear mudguard and fit a tail tidy , secondly the drop the front sprocket from 15 to 14.
I have kept the rear mudguard as when ridden in the wet these bikes get dirty enough. I did however fit a 14 t for a short while as it does perk up the acceleration and make 4th gear more usable.

I reverted back to stock as A ) I couldnt be arsed estimating my speed as the gearing puts in a 8% speedo error, and secondly it triggers the ABS randomly.

Lastly lavish the underside of the steel mudguards with Acf / waxoyl etc as they rust quickly.

Last year with all 4 of my bikes on the road I rode the monkey most and to quote the cliche , I had more smiles per mile.

Steve
 

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Despite the shocking suspension they are not too shabby off the tarmac, mainly due to the low CoG and fat tyres. Despite the snow and ice we periodically get I've never been unable to get in to work on the monkey, feet down as stabilisers and away you go! Just renewed my tax, 20 quid:thumb. I even went touring for 3 days around the SW between lockdowns last year and apart from a couple of times when a bit more power would have been nice to pass dawdling cars I never missed having a bigger bike
 

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I know what you mean - I'm juggling a new Pinarello or save a couple of grand and buy one of these ???

Or...BOTH !!!....:green gri

Jonnie, Pinarello , Italian stallion, buy it now whilst you can ride and enjoy it. You can buy a monkey when your owd legs are weedy to cart you around.

Just my 2 p worth, as I bought my dream MTB two years ago a Yeti. Still love riding it.
 
Nice bike couple of bits of advice / suggestions.

If its new dont be tempted to do an early oil change like I did at 200 miles because the oil discoloured. Honda ship these with mineral oil for the first 600 miles to allow the engine to bed in.

Avoid the monkey bike Facebook page , you will end up maxing out your credit card on Takegawa bling!

The original V rubber tyres are ok in the dry but a bit sketchy in the wet, I switched to Heidenau K 60’s at about 1200 miles.

Gearing , on the monkey forums upwards of 75% of folk junk the rear mudguard and fit a tail tidy , secondly the drop the front sprocket from 15 to 14.
I have kept the rear mudguard as when ridden in the wet these bikes get dirty enough. I did however fit a 14 t for a short while as it does perk up the acceleration and make 4th gear more usable.

I reverted back to stock as A ) I couldnt be arsed estimating my speed as the gearing puts in a 8% speedo error, and secondly it triggers the ABS randomly.

Lastly lavish the underside of the steel mudguards with Acf / waxoyl etc as they rust quickly.

Last year with all 4 of my bikes on the road I rode the monkey most and to quote the cliche , I had more smiles per mile.

Steve

Very sound advice Steve, thanks. It is new but I’d ordered some Hagon shocks and progressive fork springs in advance. I’d read your previous post about the 14T sprocket problems, but I’m afraid you are to late as Mr Takegawa has already received a chunk of my hard earned

Cheers

Tony
 


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