Hello Paul and All, wonderful forum, thank you. I am the proud new owner of a '85 700S, 39K mi., and in excellent shape, thanks to the previous owner. Since March 1st I have put just over 1K mi. on her, wonderful! She even has a name now, Celine; we are in love already. She's my 5th bike (I am now old), 4th Honda (1 Suzuki was enough!), and biggest bike yet; at first I thought she was too much for me at my age, and I still think that (maybe I should have imported a Honda Wave 125 from Thailand, also a winner), but we are getting along better, and I am trying to remain slow and cautious, but she makes that hard, since she's not really made for Grampa driving. I would have bought her just so I could hear her engine purr, love that sound! My only previous post, a couple mo. ago, was about a plastic rattling sound at low speed, quite annoying to me; I figured it was coming somewhere from the fairing area, so I stuffed a black sock in-between the windscreen and the top of the counsel/headlight housing, eureka! Not very professional but it did the job.
Eventually, the only thing for sure I would like to change is to go to the chrome exhaust that I see on the '83 650, can someone tell me if that fits on the '85 700S? Two other thoughts of possible changes also are: is it possible to mount a Euro models rear disc brake on our US drum model? And, while I like the mini-bikini, I wish the actual windscreen went high enough to do some good; anyone have some suggestions on that? Thank you again Paul and everyone else, sincerely, William Portland Oregon On Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 8:12:44 AM UTC-8, Paul LeBoutillier wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Whenever people come together to discuss anything there are bound to be > those who rub us the wrong way. This happens for a myriad of reasons, but > it WILL happen. But it is NOT a good reason to unsubscribe from the group. > If someone's responses bug you, politely direct your conversations to > others and if that special someone responds to your post, go ahead and > exercise your right to click the delete button. > > Also, if there are issues with someone that you feel need to brought to my > attention, *by all means* contact me OFF the group by using the address: > [email protected] > <javascript:>. I will look into the complaints and deal with the person > privately. > > *Please do NOT confront users in front of the entire group*. If you have > a complaint about the way someone has posted/responded, go ahead and email > that person privately and explain what you felt was inappropriate. If you > don't get a satisfactory response, email me. > > Can people be too caustic in their responses and appear over-critical. > Sure. Can others be too sensitive and peevish? Yup. But just remember this: > email is an absolutely AWFUL way to determine someone's demeanor. It lacks > ALL the elements of verbal emphasis and inflection that help us to > determine someone's mood or intent. Therefore it is VERY easy to mis-read > someone's intent and heart. > > So, once again, if you FEEL you're getting negative vibes from someone's > posts...*email that person privately*. Confront in love and explain the > offence. Let's settle things in a way that WE would want them settled if we > were the one in the wrong. > > But whatever you do...DON'T LEAVE. We need you! :) > > Paul > > P.S. If you feel you absolutely must leave the group, just remember that > every single message that you receive contains a footer with instructions > for doing this yourself. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nighthawk_lovers/16212ac9-d3ed-4d73-a5fa-036e7e0dd67eo%40googlegroups.com.
