Coffee Beans in the airbox! Is this a thing?! - with pic

Coffee Beans in the airbox! Is this a thing?! - with pic

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jj.

Original Poster:

560 posts

281 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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So servicing a (new to me – VFR800) at the weekend. Have done 110 miles since picking it up, just to really check all is OK and to run the fuel out of the tank. Bike has been with last owner for 11 years (only done around 1k miles during his ownership - garaged) and not moved since covid.

Lifted the airbox cover… What the…??? Have never seen this, how have coffee beans got into the airbox..?

Someone has suggested, it might be to deter rodents, etc, but have never seen or heard of this.

Anyone..?
jj



geeks

10,022 posts

150 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Maybe someone didnt understand when they were being told about the old "coffee bean shake!" hehe

Slowboathome

4,460 posts

55 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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That's really odd.

I saw something similar in a Suzuki once, but that was a 2 seater convertible.

FourWheelDrift

90,145 posts

295 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Do you get a nice coffee smell after a few hours?

ssray

1,167 posts

236 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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May have been a rodent that left them there

catso

15,025 posts

278 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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You sure they're coffee beans?

Rodents; mice, squirrels etc. often make nests/food stashes in car/bike airboxes and other places.

My Sister had mice nesting/stashing in her car and the little bastids chewed part of the wiring loom away.

the cueball

1,370 posts

66 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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FourWheelDrift said:
Do you get a nice coffee smell after a few hours?
That's what I want to know too... hehe

Man since I got this new bike I'm always wanting to stop for a coffee.. no idea why.........

jj.

Original Poster:

560 posts

281 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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the cueball said:
That's what I want to know too... hehe
Man since I got this new bike I'm always wanting to stop for a coffee.. no idea why.........
Nope... No smell at all. Nothing out of the ordinary. Happy to report nothing else strange found around the bike either. No signs of anything behind the fairing panels (once they were removed) or under seat. All looks immaculate to me. Just like the owner said, garaged for most of it's life, even the forward headers are 'pitted' free.

Bizarre..!!? silly
jj

Bodo

12,425 posts

277 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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What a burnout close to a coffee machine does to your bike..

ph9

221 posts

105 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Last time I saw something like that was in a Vauxhall Mokka.

LunarOne

6,052 posts

148 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Maybe it's not a Honda at all. It's a Suzuki. Cappuccino...

Bodo

12,425 posts

277 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.

Zarco

18,809 posts

220 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Bodo said:
That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.
Good effort.

airsafari87

2,959 posts

193 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Slowboathome said:
That's really odd.

I saw something similar in a Suzuki once, but that was a 2 seater convertible.
Bravo sir. Bravo.

podman

8,950 posts

251 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Bodo said:
That's probably not what the OP understood about the bike, when the seller told him he's given the beans a couple of times.
Turns out he got a proper Café Racer.
The Winner !

Rough101

2,469 posts

86 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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Previous owner must have been a right Gareth Hunt.

Bob_Defly

4,404 posts

242 months

Monday 4th September 2023
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How odd. Does it run hot? Maybe he was roasting them...

Rubin215

4,135 posts

167 months

Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Helps put off sniffer dogs at customs when you're bringing in a couple of keys.

Birky_41

4,381 posts

195 months

Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Thats so random! Seeing the original header I thought this is mice droppings but that does look like coffee beans!

ph9

221 posts

105 months

Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Rubin215 said:
Helps put off sniffer dogs at customs when you're bringing in a couple of keys.
If you get caught you'd better enlist the services of a top barista.