Steven Desjardins wrote: >On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >>>That's what Kawasakis are for: Parts. >> >> Ooh, that's a bit harsh! Watch tomorrow's World Superbike Championship >> races (Germany) and you'll see what a Kawasaki is good for in the >> hands of someone who knows how to use it! (Go Tom Sykes!) >> >>>Nice Upgrade, BTW. >> >> The original calipers always had problems and no amount of bleeding >> could achieve a good, solid brake lever feel. These are much better. >> Lever effort is a bit high and if it doesn't improve as the pads bed >> in I'll try different pads. If that doesn't achieve braking nirvana >> I'm told a master cylinder from a Suzuki Hayabusa works a treat! (Now >> *that's* a squid bike that's only good for parts!) >> >I would have said the same thing for Honda. I can't pick on Suzuki >because Debbie has one.
I *loved* my 1986 Honda VFR. Wish I'd been able to keep it in addition to the Triumph but it just wasn't possible. Honda made every redesign of that bike worse after 86-87: More and more electronic gizmos, linked brakes, pseudo VTEC valve system... and now it's a 1200cc behemoth with shaft drive. Oh yes, and they got uglier every year after the 86-87 model. The only Honda I ever lusted after was the RC-30 but I'm glad I was never able to afford one because they apparently were better race bikes than street bikes: the hand-laid fiberglass was beautiful but much more porous than the cheaper machine-made fiberglass (or ABS plastic), so the paint bubbled and peeled after a few years; two-ring pistons are nice for getting minimum friction/maximum horsepower but they let the bike burn oil at a prodigious rate. I'd love to get something silly like a Royan Enfield for tooling around Boston. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
