HOW TO GET A MOTORBIKE TO PASS MOT - HONDA CUB COSTS 2023
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- An MOT is an annual test of roadworthiness that all UK vehicles older than 3 years and younger than 40 years must pass.
My motorbike, a Honda C90 from 1988 needed an MOT. The headlight didn't work, the indicators didn't work, the bike wasn't starting, it needed brake shoes replacing. In this video I do the requisite jobs to get the motorbike to pass an MOT.
The MOT is not a thorough check of every aspect of the vehicle, merely a test of the devices and systems that guarantee safe operation. The specific criteria are to be found here: www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspe...
Once the MOT is compete, I investigate just how much the Honda Cub has cost to run for a year (1000mi) and am pleasantly surprised to see that despite EVERY cost, it was still very cheap.
I also eat a Bahlsen Pretzl puff or two.
0:00 Intro
0:19 The bike and its faults
1:18 Broken Starter Motor
1:40 removing legshield
2:45 Starter Motor removal
3:30 Cables don't match
4:00 American man and his wife...
4:25 What is an MOT test?
5:11 Bahlsen Pretzl Puff review
7:40 Starter motor off
8:38 Cleaning contacts and swapping cables
9:30 Still broken...
10:30 Sheared fixing
10:50 How bad is it? List.
12:00 Success - sort of
12:37 IT WORKS!
13:53 Thumb damaged
14:10 IT PASSED
16:26 How much?
20:27 Full spreadsheet 
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So happy the C90 is getting the love she deserves and will legally ride another year. The biscuits somehow seem better from the top box of a 1988 Super Cub. As for that American license plate, what possibly does “smile pens” mean? 😂
Over here in Northern Ireland MOTs are done at government run centres. Same system as Saudi Arabia funnily enough, I worked there for some years. I just paid a lot of money for a C90 over here in Enniskillen but what almost caught me out is when I went to insure it. It's kept in a locked garage but if you put that in the online form an Endorsement comes into play saying that they will not pay out if it's stolen when outside of said garage, no matter what security devices are fitted. So I pit it down as being kept on "Private Property," which it is, that came out as £20 per annum more expensive but that endorsement disappeared. Great video by the way.
There is nothing slimier and more loathsome than an insurance policy document... "Unless the bike is stolen from beneath a fruiting cherry tree, by an amputee from Libya, on the 29th of February, on a full moon, the same day as a solar eclipse, cover is null and void in all cases."
A chum has told me the NI government run a vehicle testing racket! Just a Draconian sausage machine...
More importantly, what is your new cub like?
Glad you liked the video.
F
great too see the cub getting some love , ive missed it fred
It rides again!
I was in Chippenham yesterday and (I think it was around 8am) I was passed by a Blue Cub, couldn’t help but wonder if it was you. Hope you are well - am looking forward to your next release 😊
Interesting, as a new cub owner here .
I did drift off topic while watching the video , my thoughts were, why is there snow on top of mountains when they are closer to the sun ...
Almost immediately I was snapped straight back to full focus on the video when the flashing lights on your cub zoomed me back in.
Best regards Shaun
Ask someone religious for an entertaining answer about the snow. As for the Cub, I am pleased it isn't dead.
Geometric snakes wedding... Im never going to be able to look at a wiring diagram again without thinking that!
On the subject of places that go looking for work, the one round the corner from me said headstock bearings on my scooter until I told them the bearings are BRAND NEW not even done 1/4 mile. Stupidly took my Bandit there as well and they brought up headstock bearings, you guessed it they were 4 months old.
Quite smug that my CG is old enough to be mot exempt although pretty sure it does actually need headstock bearings soon.
Re the MOT busyness, my 20 odd year old car was given a clean bill of health last year, with compliments on its condition. This year the same garage found a number of MOT failures, with less than five hundred extra miles on the clock. Leaving the garage with a pass certificate and several hundred pounds lighter, I immediately noticed one hadn't been done. Fred's idea of MOT exclusive stations is a good one.
@@borderlands6606 that must have left a bitter taste. Maybe a different tester? Perhaps an off day but an impartial centre makes sense to me....
The chaps at the place I go to are very good. Affable and quick. Happy to explain advisories etc. I have a chum who had the same vehicle with 500 miles more fail on a bushing that last year didn't even raise an eyebrow.
@@EpohDerf Suspicions were raised when it needed two front discs to pass. As the previous certificate didn't even have discs as advisories, it's hard to believe 400-and-something miles killed them. Still, ours is not to reason why. I'm glad you got rid of the leg shield rack on the Cub, an accessory I associate with outposts of empire and one I don't recall seeing on British C90s.
To be honest Fred, you look so much better without your glasses.
Thanks for the comment, I wear glasses almost all of the time out of habit. I was specless only because I had left the specs somewhere and they had become invisible... I've not tried contacts yet but I get 'stuff' in my eyes so regularly I feel like I'd be constantly digging contacts out to retrieve metal filings or rust or sawdust.
:Good to see another video Fred. Looking at the cost per mile and your 'statistical gymnastics', I was willing you to go for the double back flip and vary the number of miles ridden. You could enter the amazing world of mathmatical manipulation and political gobbledygook, on a level only treasury ministers truly become masters of. On that note, I will fill my wheel barrow with some loose change and go and buy a packet of special offer broken digestives. Thanks for the entertainment.
If I rode the blighter a lot and then sold it working, it would 'be more expensive not to have one..."
I hope at least one person out there boils the urine of their loved one by reasoning that "A bald man from inside the internet told me it would be a good idea to buy one, love!"
The Kenny Everet of the Cub and biscuit world, a genuinely funny and entertaining person. Whats the piece that goes across the mug in the actioned packed intro?
It is a moustache guard. It stops tea cascading down your front when you power-chug tea.
My friend bought it for me. He has one testicle and looks like Anders Brevik!
Nice to see some Cub love, insane tea making and a summary biscuit review amalgamation......wonderful stuff....Cub selling has gone mad again...not many standard ones out there now for sensible money, by that I mean less than £1600.....crazy.
Great video Fred, lovely to see pajama like trouser wearing ❤
I've not been a cub-man long. Was there a time when they were cheap as sweets ?
@@EpohDerf indeed, only a couple of years hence the amount on the "racetrack" don't think they will pay over a grand and thrash it around a track for hours on end !!! Keeping it pinned 🤙
@@tommotomlinson3370 ah. You think plop enduro has got rid of a lot of the chaff?
@@EpohDerf most definitely 😪
Great videos. Looking at getting a honda cub, curently on a nmax 125
Thank you very much. Adrian. You looking at old C90 or a new C125? Thanks for finding the time to watch and comment.
@@EpohDerf not sure buddy.
Like the old c90, but supercub obviousley more reliable. Didnt lnow such a snall tank tho.
The nmax is around £8 to fill from empty.
Im from triwbridge and in devizes regulary visiting my mum.
Maybe we will bump into each other one day 😀😀
@@adrianbrimble3168it is a strange conundrum to know the right answer to. A really nice C90 and a gently used C125 are roughly the same money now! The C90 is only going to go up in value now as more and more are chucked away (that's not to say they are an investment bike or anything). The C125 seems to depreciate very slowly and has more mod cons but hasn't been around long enough to know if it is indestructible. You'll be happy with either though, I am sure of that.