Fast bikes

[NJona86FJ]

  got lent this book to read... big print and pictures so as im not struggling... called the "history of fast bikes" and i had to have a giggle.... has a write up on the fj 1200 goes through how the frame was designed , status, what bike was made for and is good for... but lists as a top speed as 240 kilodickets an hour.... somethings not right there!!! lol though they also list the gpz 900 r as having a top of around 240 as well..... I know thats not right..... chuckles, interesting to know that the french started said engine cycling movement, and that the very first engine was a four stroke, and the first bikes were indian and harley followed by a 2 stroke british scott @ 19 hundred something or other... went for a ride to paterson the other day and bumped into a fellow...( asked me if that was my glorious red and white specimen of excellence.... red white being the excellentenst colours.... it was all over after that!!) and he mentioned he has a yamaha triple 750 four stroke...( model number eludes me) this is wierd in itself, as the fellow i have been helping unload all these honda k1 900 fours, bikes and parts, he also has a said 750 triple... as well as a few norton internationals and a beaut moto guzzi le mans...( dribble)
useless trivia over

[movenon]

http://www.biker.net/triple/triple.html. It is all a circle,  next year Yamaha will come out with there new triple.  .
OK the link didn't work....... XS 750 I think. One was for sale here in the local area recently.
George

[rktmanfj]

http://www.biker.net/triple/triple.html. It is all a circle,  next year Yamaha will come out with there new triple.  .
OK the link didn't work....... XS 750 I think. One was for sale here in the local area recently.
George

My XS750 was just like this one:

[SlowOldGuy]

I had that exact bike also.  Red '78 XS-750 with gold pinstripes.  Look really good after I painted the wheels gold!

The Mukuni carbs were a giant leap from the previous Hitachi units.

DavidR.

[rktmanfj]

I had that exact bike also.  Red '78 XS-750 with gold pinstripes.  Look really good after I painted the wheels gold!

The Mukuni carbs were a giant leap from the previous Hitachi units.

DavidR.

They did run a lot better than the 2D.

I had mine for a little over a year before I got run over on it, but I did get 25k miles on the clock.   

[movenon]

Triples are actually pretty cool and make engineering since. Smooth running machines.
George

[SlowOldGuy]

My brother and I put a ton of miles on that bike. 
Coming from a '69 CB350, the 750 was a rocket.  At least I thought so until my buddy bought a '79 CB750F.  That Honda would run off and hide.

I remember the transmission jumping into neutral if you let off the throttle when in first.  I'd run in up in first gear then feather the throttle and it would pop into neutral as I was twisting to WOT.  I swear I saw the tach go all the way around one time! OUCH!

Also had a recall on the starter clutch. 

DavidR.

[rktmanfj]

My brother and I put a ton of miles on that bike. 
Coming from a '69 CB350, the 750 was a rocket.  At least I thought so until my buddy bought a '79 CB750F.  That Honda would run off and hide.

I remember the transmission jumping into neutral if you let off the throttle when in first.  I'd run in up in first gear then feather the throttle and it would pop into neutral as I was twisting to WOT.  I swear I saw the tach go all the way around one time! OUCH!

Also had a recall on the starter clutch. 

DavidR.

Mine would keep up with my buddies 1st gen GS750, until the road got twisty anyway.

It never had that transmission malady, but it did sit in a dealer's back room until Yamaha decided to finally decided to replace the failed ignitor.

Loved the exhaust note of that triple (and my H2 as well).

[cyclenutk75]

In 1977 I quit college, got a job, and bought an XS750 brand new.  Had a Windjammer SS fairing, a luggage rack and a "Hydrogel" seat fitted at the dealer.  Paid $2500 out the door.  The first weekend I had it I rode from central Ohio to Niagara Falls via Detroit and back on the south side of Lake Erie.  Rode it from Ohio to Yellowstone in '78.  Two lanes the whole way there.  A couple buddies rode along - one on a Suz GT550, one on a water buffalo.  We had to stop every 100 miles for gas because of the 550 and the distance between towns once we got through Iowa.  Took a week to get there, stayed for five days, then rode the whole way home in less than 48 hours - a double iron butt (I don't recommend it).  Best vacation I ever took.  Quit job, went back to shcool.

Dirt poor when I graduated from college (had been eating dry cereal three meals a day for a few years cause I couldn't afford milk - cereal was free cause my friends who lived on campus stole it from the cafeteria) so had to sell the XS for security deposit money for an apartment when I got a job.

Those were some good times!

GT

[Jim 92FJ]

In 1977 I quit college, got a job, and bought an XS750 brand new.  Had a Windjammer SS fairing, a luggage rack and a "Hydrogel" seat fitted at the dealer.  Paid $2500 out the door.  The first weekend I had it I rode from central Ohio to Niagara Falls via Detroit and back on the south side of Lake Erie.  Rode it from Ohio to Yellowstone in '78.  Two lanes the whole way there.  A couple buddies rode along - one on a Suz GT550, one on a water buffalo.  We had to stop every 100 miles for gas because of the 550 and the distance between towns once we got through Iowa.  Took a week to get there, stayed for five days, then rode the whole way home in less than 48 hours - a double iron butt (I don't recommend it).  Best vacation I ever took.  Quit job, went back to shcool.

Dirt poor when I graduated from college (had been eating dry cereal three meals a day for a few years cause I couldn't afford milk - cereal was free cause my friends who lived on campus stole it from the cafeteria) so had to sell the XS for security deposit money for an apartment when I got a job.

Those were some good times!

Great story GT. Not a better way to see the world than on the seat of a motor bike.  I was just in Millersburg last week looking at a ST1100. My wife used to go to Shreve to buy Christmas trees too, I enjoy riding down 83, fun road.

GT

[cyclenutk75]

Jim - PM sent.

GT

[Mark Olson]

yeah , I had a xs-850 triple for a minute or two . It put me thru a front window of a house one time. 

well that's a story for a rally campfire.