But at least it’ll do a 12 second quarter mile…
I picked up an '85 Honda Nighthawk 700S in North Greece yesterday, Danger towed it out to my place for me. Should be fun this summer.
700cc inline 4 DOHC with 80 hp, fully adjustable suspension, shaft drive, dual front disks, gear indicator and a 10,750rpm redline.
It needs some updated lighting, but it runs strong and it’s in great shape.
Like! Be safe. First bike?
Yeah first bike, doing my best to take it easy and stay safe. All I need now are a good pair of riding shoes that wont just pop off my feet.
What size are you? I have a pair of Icon riding boots (not full racing boots, you can wear them with jeans) that I don’t need.
Used maybe all of 10 times I think. Size 10-1/2
I’m size 15, thanks for the offer though.
Holy feet! Haha no problem dude
Awesome vintage looking bike
For the price I couldn’t find another bike with the long list of features this one has. Surprising for the years it was produced.
Swapped all the fluids in the bike today, engine/tranny oil and filter, gear oil in the rear end, and flushed the front brake and clutch with fresh DOT4. Nice to know everything is in order.
Come to find out the oil filter that is supposed to go on the bike is too big to fit between the exhaust primaries, who’s fucking idea was that? Thankfully the previous owner had found a smaller Honda filter that fits and works just fine. It took a couple trips to the Honda dealer to end up with the right filter, but that’s better than pulling the pipes.
Also installed a Nokya 2500k 55/65W H4 bulb in my headlight, should help people notice me even during the day, and be a pretty nice upgrade from the original 1985 lamp that was still in it.
And then I promptly covered the bike and myself in dead mosquitoes…
I bet that will wheelie just fine
Just rolling onto it it won’t, which I’m perfectly fine with, I’m sure if I got stupid with the clutch it would, haha.
That bike should clutch em up pretty good in 1st gear
Ugh I did this the other day, in my mouth and everything.
Closed face FTW!
I picked up a flashing tail light from Superbrightleds, it has the flasher built into the led module, so there is no secondary flasher box to install.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/tail-brake-turn/1157-led-bulb-dual-intensity-1-x-3-watt-high-power-led-w-brake-flasher/923/
What I forgot to order was a load resistor, so now I’ve got the tail light warning light on until the resistor shows up.
Installed
Picked up some Hella Supertones, planned on running just one of the two horns, which was pretty much bolt on. Got this far and figured out the front fairing wasn’t going to fit over it, so I’m toying with ideas to space the front fairing forward just enough for the horn to fit.
Also picked up a couple LED work lights, 16W per side and should output about 1000 lumins at 12V. I’m planning on stepping them up to 24V which should bring them to roughly 1600 lumins.
nice to do the safety items on a bike like this.
Making people see you is important!
Made a couple quick brackets to space the front fairing forward 0.75" to fit the Supertone. Originals on the right, new brackets on the left. Now it sounds like a truck, haha
Also picked up some 18 LED 6" flexible waterproof strips. I could only find them with a white backing, so I removed the white heat shrink and applied one layer of gunsmoke Lamin-x and added some black heat shrink.
Installed them on the rear hand bar, wired to the running lights so they are always on.
It seems to haul my fat ass around pretty well, haha
Try it clutchless. It won’t hurt it
