Ditto. I remember one of our neighbors in Savannah way back in the '50s who had a Renault, and it was ALWAYS breaking down. One time it quit on him right in the driveway on the way out and we had to go help him push it back up the driveway and he had to have it towed to the shop... By the same token, another neighbor had a Beetle and he never had trouble with his; AND, that was like a $450.00 car... Stanley
________________________________ From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:03:48 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Starting problems LMAO! Now that's payback! ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Hammerl To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:56 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Starting problems I wonder if Honda shipped defective motorcycles to France to retaliate for Renault's and the FIM ? --- On Fri, 1/9/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Starting problems To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 3:31 AM Well, thank you for the clarification. I thought maybe this was the cause of the trouble and taht, most NH having been sold in the USA, we were a minority to have this "headlamp on" problem. It's not the case, the "headlamp on" way of riding is the common case. Here in France when you ask people (not Honda of course) on the bike servicing market (spare parts sellers, junkyards), they all say "ah, a Honda CBX (nighthawk), of course you have charging problems" ! Even a german guy, who sold a dismantled CBX told me that, sick of searching the cause of the problem, he decided to sell his bike for spares in order not to gull somebody else with a bike which can't be operated normally. I'm really amazed. I have this bike since one year. BTW, I bought one to ride ane one for spares, and both were sold by honest owners who said "I like it but it doesn't charge". It's only because I'm an electrical engineer that I decided to pass over this and try to fix the problem : I thought it was only some nasty oldie illness. It's not : it's a common engineering flaw, from the beginning of the bike's life. Well, I understand that I can create some desillusion among nighthawk lovers who thought they had found the best ever engineered bike in the world. I'm sorry guys and gulls, but you must swallow the tennis ball. Your bike is fantastic (me too, I love it), but it has a problem and unless this problem is fixed, you can't use it by hot days and/or in traffic jams (I assume everybody must ride with the headlamp on). At 21:59 08/01/2009 -0800, Dennis Hammerl wrote: >-- >> >> >> Except of course some lovers of this bike who never ride it with >>the headlamp on and/or in hot weather and/or in city jams. >> >> >>All motorcycles sold in the USA after 01-01-75 must have it's >>lights on at all times. There are no "off" switches on a US >>market motorcycle intended for street use. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
