ha ho,

i've bought the mc16 on ebay (hastings) as something cheap to strip and trick to pass the winter hours away. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, i picked up a very nice and genuine little beauty which i cannot come to cannibalise or part with. Apart from a missing rear hugger, exhaust gaskets and some original fairing bolts (currently i have to use my hole tool box to get the fairing off) it all looks very good and runs very well apart from what i'm hoping is just a little oil fouling round the plug from too much oil.

having ridden modern 4stroke road bikes for years i was pleasantly suprised with the power of this little thing and how light and solid it felt, not to mention lack of engine breaking and gliding into corners, nice. but the best thing for me, other than it being and red honda for £40.00 quid a year insurance, having upset the neighbours with my 4stroke enduro bike, was how quiet it is...no problems with noise regs now.

anyway my questions are:

can you get trick parts for this model like you can the mc18 onwards, i'm not really bothered about absolute power as i didn't buy it for that. Just parts i like to caress now and again? YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! I think i'll go to the shed to have another look at it.

what about sticky tyre choice and rear sizes (should i fit a 17 rear wheel from a mc18 assuming they run 17s)?

how can i sift through the database just to locate articles on MC16s? man they should have called this site mc21world+miscellaneous.com

lastly (for now anyway) i've seen a cheap MC18 which i'm interested in(as you do) and wanted to know if i'm really going to get any addition pleasure from owning one of them.

that'll ding dang do me paddy.

wes