I think I have said this before a couple of times. 1986 V65 Magna. My favorite bike!
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80s bikes... your favorite?
- Thread starter Mad Mike
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A pic of mine from 2001.BMW Airheads. RS/RT. Although the R90 was a 70's success, the styling cues carried over well into the 80's. We had an R80RT for many years. It was the most comfortable bike i ever owned. Even better than the Goldwing.The fairing was a brilliant design by Hans Muth week did a lot of unique bikes.
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Isn't that "what's his name's" bike, raced with VRRA, that is almost a perfect replica of the Erion bike?
IMHO if you're looking at Hawk GT, get the '89-90. The trans in the '88 has more of a "over drive" 5th gear, the '89-90 has a closer ratio 5th. On a '88 at Mosport you're shifting into 5th right at the bump... and it falls on it's face, the '89-90 just kinda stumbles. For the street they're just fine, but they do take some getting used to.
The bike in the pic has a JDM Bros400 close ratio trans. You can tell by the big rear sprocket
I have a '89 for sale.
... but yeah, this was one of the best bikes of the '80s. A poor mans Ducati... except they're MUCH better than the Monsters, which would be Ducati's direct competition to this bike. It was also the first "naked" bike.
I describe the bike as " Grand Prix frame, moped motor". You'd be hard pressed to find a "friendlier" motorcycle.
Riceburner
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Had a V45 Sabre for the longest time + mileage(until the current one). Liked the 750 Nighthawk at the time or the V45 Interceptor. Ended up with a VFR750 for a while as my return from hiatus a long while back.
Riceburner
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Had loads of fun on my CBX250....or was that just my memory fading???? Was a great commuter for downtown....maybe not so much on the highway....MAX speed was 120km/h and I'm light.
Fuzzbuster
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guzzirider
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RC-31
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The infamous "passing gear." It was only available on the "Tempest Gray" models. Very hard to find.
guzzirider
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KLR where they not noted for dohicky failure
After Disco church music sounded good
After Disco church music sounded good
I'm thinking that was over rated. I ride with 9 other guys on killers and few of them have done the doo. Mine was done when I got it.
(Church music never sounded good)
Mad Mike
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It's that way now because manufacturers did bold things in the 70s and 80s.
The thrill is experiencing what riders enjoyed or suffered with as manufacturers experimented with power and the move away from Stansard and UJM to specialty categories.
I have a few 80s era, Yamaha QT50 (noped), XV920R, and a Suzuki SP125. They are all fun to ride.
And designed by Hans Muth. He was way ahead of his time.
Worked on me. In the day I thought they were hideous, today I think they're one of the best looking bikes EVER.
...discontinued in 1979 ...much fun middle weight.
The blue cloud and ring ding dingy……..lustful. Not to mention it was one of the easiest bikes to wheelie and scare the crap out of you.
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