Man, you got 2 brand new vehicles there.
Really? Most reliable bikes I have ever had, bar none. Literally jump on it, go through literally two sets of tires before I got home, no problems. Mine is also modded to the nth degree with things like the "three wire mod" and the "oil mod" etc for longevity. Only the oil mod was really necessary for the over 200k mark in my opinion. The gear mod was for better MPG and passing gear, the tire mods were the most intensive.
I am known as a "bike *****" LOL- I have 5 Z based Kawis, a couple three 'zuks, two hondas, a ducati project, probably done next year. Working on my shop has put everything on the back burner, but will redouble in production once I am done with it- honestly, I do more Jeep projects than anything.
Dealer said the problems were in the wiring harnesses, I got so pissed off that I contacted Honda Canada and complained daily. After the first bike was in the shop for 18 of the first 21 days of ownership, they agreed to take it back and gave me another new one. I wanted to trade it for an FJ1200 Yamaha, but Honda insisted that it had to be another V65. That one was back in the shop after 3 or 4 days of ownership, spent a week there, and by that time it was almost winter. I got rid of it the following spring. No question they were an extremely fast bike, my brother had a V-Max Yamaha at the same time and the two bikes were very close in performance. I think the V-Max was rated at 145 HP, and the Honda at 121 HP, the Yamaha had a butterfly valve in the intake tract that acted like the secondaries on a four barrel carb, once the RPMs hit 3500, each cylinder was fed by two carbs. Lots of fun and good memories from those days.
I still have 3 GSXR-Rs still. One is a street fighter, one is a "frankenbike"- an 1127 motor in a Katana 750 frame (a 7-11 as we call them) and one is being mostly restored with some upgrades, but stock frame and swing arm. One of my all time faves. The 1100 series was definitely in response to the V65 Magna being the first to official tens, IIRC. 1983, so early on. The Sabre was faster though, but never got an official record setting time, wasn't pushed that hard by honda, only one year. Suzuki loves to be the fastest. The V-4 Madura was faster than the V65 Honda, but had tons of issues. I owned one of those too, along with V max and a Kawi eliminator. I had a bike shop on the mainland. Funny this came up, my container from teh mainland is arriving with 15 motorcycles in various states of dis-repair destined for my new shop. I have actually built way more motorcycles at this point in my life than cars.
Yep, known as the "three wire fix"- and also, why I ended up with motorcycle shop back on the mainland.
Can you share the awesome dusters rear rally specs? 15x8 or 15x7's? Backspace? Thanks
