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Ptresume you are going for the unfaired version rather than the Deauville?
If that's the case, I know jack sh1t. Loved Deauvilles though. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Polarbear wrote: | Ptresume you are going for the unfaired version rather than the Deauville?
If that's the case, I know jack sh1t. Loved Deauvilles though. |
Correct - the Revere? . It's hard to believe they're much the same bike underneath! No disrepect but the Deauville looks dire. A Bros would be good/interesting too but their harder to find I believe. ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600 |
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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. ____________________ own: 81 xs1100g...
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. |
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I was explaining the Honda Rune earlier down the pub and this makes more sense now. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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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. ____________________ I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.
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Robby wrote: | It was quite light and compact I think. CB500 has a far more interesting engine. |
whoah hang on a sec - more interesting how?? I've owned two of the f***ers and never really did manage to find a less interesting bike, apart from maybe the NC750 (although I never did get to have a properly proper go on my mate's - so perhaps there were hidden treasures in dem dar half a jazz under-square hills).
Digressing for a sec, if I was gonna go for that old honda 650 v-twin lump, i'd want it in the Bros guise (chain driven thus less weight, more efficient power makery, and imo less to go wrong).
Back to the cb500 for a sec - specs-wise it's apparently very, very similar to the 650 Bros in terms of weight and bhp. Which to me means why would you choose a parallel twin over a v2, all other things being equal. Like, I've always felt that the most boring power plant of all is a 180 degree "IL2" - and that a v2 might sacrifice some top end power, but its character is always going to be less vanilla - and also, the power of the V is going to be easier to get at (?).
But I suppose "interesting" is inevitably a pretty subjective thing. That said, if I now HAD to choose between the cb500 or Bros 650, it would be that latter. But the grass is always greener, I suppose. Or less beige, in this particular context.
https://bikez.com/pictures/honda/1991/nt%20650%20hawk%20gt.jpg
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https://ogden_images.s3.amazonaws.com/www.motorcycleclassics.com/images/2014/06/11084544/Honda-NT650-Hawk-GT-r-jpg.jpg
NB single sided swing arm (made changes quicker in the US race series - but surely added weight over a more conventional rear swing arm) (just Honda trying to be more like Ducati) ____________________ "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 35 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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