CX500 GL500 650 Global

Had a great day out with a couple of pals.Went over the North Yorkshire moors.Things went,"Pear shaped" not far outside Goathland.Our leader,"Gaz" took us down a country track where you had to open and close a country gate.Little did we know there were two dangerous Fords to cross,

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We did the 1st one ok,





Tony on the right drying first wet boot from the 1st crossing



But then,"Disaster" for me at the 2nd one,



Tony,Gaz and me(Picture taken by the guy in the small blue car across the way who has a holiday Barn in the farm we had just passed.Nice bloke came to help if needed).

My CX went over in the middle of that ford.Had to cut the engine.Gaz had to wade back and help me lift the bike.Got her started up after a few cranks as the carbs had flooded.There was green algae all over the stones and a mega couple of steps in the small slabs that Gaz had managed to avoid or knew about as he had done this road before the B*stard<grin>
Luckily no damage to my CX except it killed a plate in the battery which I found out later and I had a towel in my Back box so well all dried off.After we got my bike up and over ok we had to go back over and help Tony with his and held it whilst we crossed.
Tony just drying to dry his socks.After a good whine and even more laughs just up and over the hill we did not realize how close we were to one of the stops on the North Yorkshire Steam Railway stop at Grosmont so stopped and had a cup-of-tea from the Station buffet,





A great day out and considering I was riding with two modern 600s both the lads were quite impressed that my CX500 not only kept up but survived without a scratch

We finally ended up in Scarborough at a Bike friendly Cafe called the Oasis on the front and there was a lovely old Sunbeam there,

awsome,just awsome.what a day.. ...and you can still laugh about it

do you know shep.thats the first picture iv seen of you,nice to be able to put a face to the helper

spanish bandit wrote::lol: do you know shep.thats the first picture iv seen of you,nice to be able to put a face to the helper

Here's one of me on the left playing guitar a couple of years ago in a great sleazy rock bar in called Stiels/Haarlem/Amsterdam,



I understand they have killed it now since they brought in the smoking ban like all the bars/pubs over here.

Great pictures!

Sheppola wrote:We finally ended up in Scarborough at a Bike friendly Cafe called the Oasis on the front and there was a lovely old Sunbeam there,

Sweet! An inline parallel twin! I was just thinking about such a thing the other day.

I did a little digging on the Sunbeam brand, but I couldn't find any reference to a water-cooled model. Do you think this is an aftermarket mod?

R

I think you are right.I've done digging as well and I think it is an after market,user modification.I think there may have been an overheating problem with the design and this was to counteract that.

Found this,
http://www.onthebeam.co.uk/Specials.html

600cc Reliant - Colin Temple-Smith

This machine is a Sunbeam with a four cylinder in line engine fitted. Now it is quite well documented that Sunbeam experimented with the same layout using a very similar engine, in fact this machine could be described as that missing link!LOC The Reliant engine is a relatively compact 600cc unit and is of all aluminium construction. Apart from the frame modifications required the rest of the machine is pure Sunbeam. Obviously the machine is slightly longer but the whole thing looks very “factory”. The four gives the machine huge flexibility and will pull away on a whiff of throttle with perfect smoothness thanks to the retention of rubber mounting, albeit differently engineered. In fact the engine is very difficult to stall and will recover from almost stopped to a nice smooth idle at a hint of throttle, thanks to the SU carburettor. Being water-cooled overheating is not a problem. The bike is nicely balanced even better so than a standard Beam and probably weighs much the same the extra wheelbase making for a very “planted” feel. Reliant developed this engine and its capacity increased to 700, 750 and then 850 cc in the Reliant Robin so there’s plenty of potential for even more umph without changing the installation.