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Cycle Magazine article

Started by WhiteBeard, October 15, 2011, 03:18:22 AM

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WhiteBeard

Found this article on the FJ1200 when roaming the web a while ago, haven't seen a link to it here, so here it goes:
http://charles.robinsontwins.org/fj/cycle_89.html


Mark Olson

That article gets posted every now and then . Buried somewhere in the files.

It is always nice to read it again . :good2:
Mark O.
86 fj1200
sac ca.

                           " Get off your ass and Ride"

JMR

All the magazines listed the chain as a 630.

Lotsokids

The last statement is so true:

"Rather than doing one thing excellently, it does everything very well."
U.S. Air Force sport bike instructor (initial cadre), 2007-2009

I'm an American living & working in Hungary

simi_ed

Quote from: Lotsokids on October 15, 2011, 03:26:01 PM
The last statement is so true:

"Rather than doing one thing excellently, it does everything very well."

I rather liked the preceding line as well ... "Yamaha's FJ1200 is a survivor because it is an intelligent machine, one with wisdom tempered by fire."
-- RKBA Regards,

Ed
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Ed Thiele 
Simi Valley, CA -- I no longer have SoCal manners.
'89 FJ12C (Theft deterrent Silver/White)


- All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for
enough good men to do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

FJTillDeath

I still dont know why Yamaha stopped manufacturing them..

They did start with the FJRs though.. Maybe the design was looking too much out of date
Life behind bars - is actually quite thrilling