Oh it is a sweet ride. I love the character of the bike, especially with the larger front sprocket. It just purrs along in the 50-60 range, but still hauls butt if you stretch it out. It burns/leaks a little oil, maybe 1-2 Oz over 150 miles. I spooned on a new rear tire yesterday, so that was nice since the old one was flat like a car tire. Once I get in the wheel spacers for the 850 forks I'll be able to put on the new brake package. I'll have to tune the front end again, but the steering geometry should be similar. Hopefully it will be more neutral as it is a little heavy steering now. I was thinking about shortening the forks to correct that, but was lazy, as I'm used to it. I can't raise the forks in the tripple tree since they hit the drag bars I installed. The progressive springs with 15 PSI of air removed all the fork dive and it is very sporty now, you just have to use some body english to overcome the higher front end height. If you come down you should take it for a spin. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: Graham Rogers <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:54:17 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] I finally got in a good joy ride! And how did our GS do Allen? Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2014, at 7:23 PM, "Allen Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason took his 82 nighthawk and I took the GS. We did about 150 miles worth > of back roads. Luckilly we made it home before Jason's battery went dead as > his charging rotor took a dump somewhere along the way. The plus side is that > we figured out the high speed stumbling it was doing. We removed the airbox > door and used fender washers to hold in the air filter. > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
