Nice looking bike. Did your's also have the I-beam type handle bars? They looked very 80s-ish but difficult to add a small windshield to them. The one thing I liked about the V45s instrument panel was the clock. Why they shoved everything else in the Nighthawk but left that out is beyond me. The sabre had a much bigger pizza box too.
-Kyle On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Dennis Hammerl <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't like the bars either. Mine has bars from a 700s. I didn't like the > instrument pod on the V45 Sabre, the 1100 is more conventional. > > --- On *Sat, 9/12/09, Kyle Munz <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Kyle Munz <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Kyle, 115 jet size > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 3:08 AM > > > My buddy's V45 sabre is gone now but I enjoyed riding it. If I couldn't > have a nighthawk I would have one of those. It had a low slight burble to > the exhaust. Weird handle bars though. > > -Kyle > -Sent from Houston, TX, United States > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Dennis Hammerl > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> I think it sounds pretty good for one of those. They tend to be quite >> mechanically noisy. Riding it is a trip, it makes a neat hollow sound at >> 2000 and whistles from the carbs at that speed too. Partially rolling off at >> most any speed will cause the whistle. When I got it, somebody had drilled >> out the four rivets in each of the muffler end caps. TOO loud. I replaced >> them and left it that way. They are odd for a Honda, no paper air filter, >> just a huge slab of foam in the box. Short intake tubes on the carbs and >> long, bent square tubes that run from the openings in the lid (all >> internal). Whatever they had in mind, it makes huge torque at low speeds. I >> seldom turn it over 4K. In 6th at that figure it makes 75+MPH. >> It's nowhere near as nice to ride as a Hawk, just brutish. >> >> --- On *Fri, 9/11/09, Kyle Munz >> <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >> >* wrote: >> >> >> From: Kyle Munz <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >> > >> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Kyle, 115 jet size >> To: >> [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 2:24 AM >> >> >> Finally got to hear the mp3. Your VF1100 sounds nice, but I still think >> the nighthawks sound better ;) >> >> -Kyle >> -Sent from Houston, TX, United States >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Dennis Hammerl >> <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I have several. I'll scan and send tomorrow night. Just drop one >>> bowl to check. An outside one will do. Find any bad stuff and you know the >>> rest. >>> >>> --- On *Fri, 9/11/09, Kyle Munz >>> <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >>> >* wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: Kyle Munz <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >>> > >>> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Kyle, 115 jet size >>> To: >>> [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >>> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:47 AM >>> >>> >>> Thanks, I didn't get a chance to drop the bowls today. I spent all day in >>> the waiting lounge of my local tire shop while the tire company talked to >>> the leasing company to talk to my company so someone could decide if I >>> deserved new tires or not. I get to go back tomorrow as it was finally >>> decided I deserved tires but they need to be ordered. Ppl say I'm crazy to >>> b$#tch, but I HATE having a company car. >>> Anyhow, I hope to open them up tomorrow at at the least this weekend. Do >>> you know about which RPMs the different jets are used? >>> >>> -Kyle >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dennis Hammerl >>> <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> The size of the #115 main jet in your bike is .041" >>>> The #35 is .005" >>>> That's just in case that's what is in there but I'd check the size to be >>>> sure if they have been reamed. You may just find something like #120 ! >>>> I'm working on the intake area that would be optimum for performance. >>>> I included the audio file of the VF11. Lot's of chains and gears running >>>> around in there. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
