Tell me about Honda NTVs..

[A100man]

I feel I need a new project. Never owned a shaftie or a V twin or a Honda! so I've been browsing these. I think they look quite kewl too. ..
Since it woudl be a survivor project only looking to spend up to a grand maybe...

Who's ridden one?
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Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[Polarbear]

Ptresume you are going for the unfaired version rather than the Deauville?

If that's the case, I know jack sh1t. Loved Deauvilles though.
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[A100man]

[WD Forte]

Never had one but know guys who did and they're oft scoffed at
as under powered and underwhelming
But that's bikers for you and we all know they stink of piss right?
( not me I rides a scooty me)

Anyway, the Deauville is the dressed up version of the NTV and the engine is reputed to be a reliable old thing and the shafty saves you fuckin about with filthy chains and sprockets.
Ooh! I do like a good shafting.

Reliable hacks basically.
You know, a bike you can actually ride and go places on
do people still do that?
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[stinkwheel]

A lot of them will have been couriered into the ground. Make sure it's on its first time round the odometer.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Polarbear]

[Bhud]

Oh, that one on Ebay with the blowing exhaust? Good find. Low mileage, low price.

[A100man]

[virus]

So long as you get one that's not ex courier and ridden to death they are great bikes. Low maintenance, enough power to get around and do motorways without becoming roadkill, enough character to be interesting to ride.
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[WD Forte]

DN-01
51bhp at the wheel from a 680cc Deauville lump
3 stage "Human friendly transmission"
Offbeat and far too expensive to catch on apparently

https://mcn-images.bauersecure.com/wp-images/4015/1440x960/01honda-dn-01.jpg?mode=max&quality=90&scale=down
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[Easy-X]

[slowasyoulike]

[WD Forte]

Hadn't paid much attention to the DN-01 before
Kinda want one now.....
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[Robby]

I had a revere 600 for about a year, probably 5 or 6 years ago.

It was nothing exciting when it worked, and a bit of a dog. Mine had trouble staying cool, radiators and fans are expensive.

It was quite light and compact I think. CB500 has a far more interesting engine.

I've had a lot of bikes. That was one of them that I don't miss. Odd secondary vibrations used to send my fingers to sleep.

[Polarbear]

[c_dug]

When I was about 19 years old (~2009/2010) I had a Revere. I bought it for about £300 on over 80,000 miles and then used to commute 90 miles a day on it through winter on motorways, to a job I earned about £7 an hour at.

Suffice to say bike maintenance was at the very bottom of my list of spending priorities.

My dad nicknamed it the cockroach because it simply refused to die.

I'd ride it for well over an hour at high RPM on the M25 each day. I ran it out of oil twice to the point that it nipped up on me. I crashed it on ice twice, I rode through the worst of the weather. It just kept going and going and going and going.

By the end the front headlight was held on by a shitty bicycle basket bracket, and the taillight was a bicycle battery tail light fitted to the luggage rack (the brake light still worked but something stopped the tail light functioning).

One of the crashes killed the odometer so it stopped counting at around 98,000 miles and I used it for another 2 months after that.

Eventually MOT time came around and it obviously wouldn't pass so it sat in my garden for about six months.

It still started and ran when I eventually sold it on eBay ~6 months later. It sold for £90 and the two blokes turned up and knocked me down to £50 which in hindsight hurts to think about, I needed that £40 more than them for certain but as a young bloke I didn't have it in me to argue back against two older guys.

Anyway, not sure if that's any use to you, but that's my story about my Revere.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Easy-X]

I keep thinking of the SV650:

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/-/media/bikesocial/2020-august-images/suzuki-sv650-1999-2003---used-guide/suzuki-sv650-review-used-guide-(3).ashx?h=493&la=en&w=740&hash=5478095A86AA2CAF495B809DCF02B09864388CF2

Or the Ducati Monster:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Ducati_900_Monster_City.jpg

Both of which seem to look better with the trellis frame? That "aluminium band" is a bit distracting for some reason.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Robby]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[sickpup]

I've owned about 2 NTV600's, 12 or so NTV650's, 6 or so NT400 Bros400's and 6 NT650 BROS650's.

All suffer from limited parts availability especially bodywork. The NTV600 you can't get handlebars for.
Exhausts are occasionally available but very rare. 4 different types, 1 for the 600, short early for the 650 and late longer type. The 650 types are interchangable., the 600 isn't. Different short type for the BROS
2nd gear commonly goes on the NTV's, due to over reving at gearchange.
The output shaft goes on the BROS's, the spline is too narrow.
MK2 BROS650 uses odd sized magnesium wheels.

Decent bikes if in good condition.