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So stay away from any V-4 bikes? Like a Virago?

Started by Bminder, March 25, 2014, 06:26:42 PM

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Dads_FJ

#30
March 28, 2014, 05:22:38 PM
Looks like a GIVI Monokey rack on the back, a good sign and something you might use... 
John S.

'84 Yamaha FJ1100
'89 Yamaha FJ1200
'94 Yamaha WR250
'80 BMW R100S/Sidecar
'39 BSA WM20

Pat Conlon

#31
March 28, 2014, 06:57:57 PM
Quote from: JMR on March 28, 2014, 01:54:38 PM
Apparently all Honda's have cam tensioner problem except the SOHC CB750. :biggrin:

Mike, you would love this...I'm currently working on a K1 that has been in storage for 32 years.

I built the bike (Denver hardtail) 40 years ago, and I've forgotten just how marvelously engineered the Honda SOHC 750 engines are....I made a good choice years ago when everyone was putting those horrible AMF Harley's in the Denver frames, I used the K1.
Stored her dry, so some fresh gas, oil and battery, she fired right up.
Just an amazing engine....and quite beautiful. The engine that changed the world.

I post some Picts when I get her put together...
1) Free Owners Manual download: https://tinyurl.com/fmsz7hk9
2) Don't store your FJ with E10 fuel https://tinyurl.com/3cjrfct5
3) Replace your old stock rubber brake lines.
4) Important items for the '84-87 FJ's:
Safety wire: https://tinyurl.com/99zp8ufh
Fuel line: https://tinyurl.com/bdff9bf3

ribbert

#32
March 29, 2014, 04:18:04 AM
Quote from: Pat Conlon on March 28, 2014, 06:57:57 PM
The engine that changed the world.


Anyone old enough to have owned bikes prior to this would realise just how significant it was. That engine, indeed the whole bike, was the most important milestone in motorbike history and they did it in one fell swoop. I still have a crystal clear image in my mind of the first time I saw one in the flesh.
I had owned nothing but Pommy bikes at that stage but started my apprenticeship on them that year and got to ride them at work. I couldn't afford one at first, and by the time I could, I bought a new, second model Suzuki GT750, while still working for Honda. I was not allowed to park it on the premises.

After years of vibrating singles and twins the sensation of that 4 cylinder engine (the Honda) purring away underneath you was something else.

Noel
"Tell a wise man something he doesn't know and he'll thank you, tell a fool something he doesn't know and he'll abuse you"

TexasDave

#33
March 29, 2014, 08:40:33 AM



I had a 1978 Honda 750 F model with the stock 4 into one megophone exhaust. What a wonderful sound. However I liked my Suzuki GT750 for pure acceleration. It was a tall and heavy bike just won
derful to cruise on. After the end of 2 strokes in the US suzuki used that motor standing on end in their outboard motors for years.  Dave
A pistol is like a parachute, if you need one and don't have one you will never need one again.

Burns

#34
March 29, 2014, 11:56:34 AM

The engine that changed the world.

Most certainly.
It is the father of the UJM.
It's children include the namesake of this forum.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
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