Before I bought my second Nighthawk I considered an Interceptor. I don't know much about them, from what you say, I'm glad I didn't pursue it. I guess it makes sense, since you really don't see may of them on the road any longer. Were they really that much of a dog???
On Jun 21, 9:46 pm, Dennis Hammerl <[email protected]> wrote: > Sad to say but in our location, yes. Maybe some other place they sold well. > It does explain why the short run though. Let's see, we liked FT500's and > Sabre's, the CB1100F and a few other losers from that period. In the big > picture, we won. Which ones turned out to be really great motorcycles ? When > I ride my 700, I don't see any of those Interceptors. At the time (1984) the > magazines made some snide remarks about the 700s being a holdover from the > Kawasaki GPZ's. So it was a dated design in styling. The VF7500F looked new > and fast. An off-the-showroom-floor cafe racer. It didn't matter that they > had huge maintenance costs. They became obsolete with the Hurricanes and > Ninja's. The cost of cool is very high. What was hot is not. > > --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Dennis <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:57 PM > > Message > > Wow, > > So you are saying that these 700SC's that some of us love > so much were dogs on the showroom floor when they were new? I'd have > never guessed that. They just look so cool - everything else good > about them aside. I'd have thought they would have sold > well. Strange world. > > Dennis G. > - Seattle > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > > [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dennis Hammerl > Sent: 21 June, 2009 > 18:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: > [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: About the age of tires > > Yes, I don't know if every manufacturer is complying. > Since all that went down, we decided not to inventory many tires. The > distribution network responded by being firstest, fastest so to get > your > business. It was an answer anyway. Now most everything is ordered. > Stock > some popular stuff. It's a weird business, the stuff that effects it > and > how you plan. If the staff in the garage likes a new model, the boss > won't order more than the minimum of that. That's 'cause we liked some > showroom losers. (CB700s for one) We sold ten Interceptors for each > one > of those. I bought my new one as a left over in '87. > > --- On > Sun, 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: > Dennis <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] > Re: About the age of tires > To: > [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:11 > PM > > Dennis H., > > In the ABC piece, they said there are numbers on > car tires that you can use to tell when the tire was made. Are > there numbers on motorcycle tires that you can look at to determine > when the tire was made? > > Dennis G. > - Seattle > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Dennis Hammerl > Sent: 21 June, 2009 17:41 > To: > [email protected] > Subject: [Nighthawk > Lovers] Re: About the age of tires > > For whatever it's worth, how tires have aged is > quite important to me. The details aren't all that important > but if I can cut a tire with a thumbnail and there are no > cracks, I'll ride it. The OEM tires age fast, some premium > tires age slowly. They're very soft to start with. I go with > instinct mostly, it's not easy to describe. When in doubt, > throw it out. New tires are slippery, most folks don't know > how long it takes to scuff 'em. > > --- On Sun, > 6/21/09, Dennis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: > Dennis <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk > Lovers] About the age of tires > To: > [email protected] > Cc: "'Alistair J. > Crerar'" <[email protected]>, "Ed Fitzgerald (home)" > <[email protected]>, "Jon Richardson (Home)" > <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, > 4:06 PM > > There's an article > on-line on ABC about aged automobile tires being sold 'as > new'and how dangerous they can be. It's an > interesting and scary story since apparently no one has > been > paying attention to this issue. Click the > following link and you can watch the story. > http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897 > > This has got me > wondering about motorcycle tires and if they have the same > issues. > Dennis H., do you have > any wisdom to share with us on this issue given all your > years working in dealerships? > Dennis G. > - Seattle > - '85 & '86 CB700SC- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
