Best Looking Motorcycle - 70's
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Todd Dodds
Super Member
I rode mine to college, too, even though the state had temporarily retired my driver's license...fortunately, train tracks from my house to campus were "Victor 500 friendly."
Nightcleaner
Super Member
There used to be one around my town which I lived in all my life now , with Dunstall exhaust . Didn't it sound great At the end of the 70's also was a kawasaki 900 with a turbo fitted There was no wastegate fitted and by goodness didn't it shift. But the CBX wins my vote
davidb1
Super Member
I put big hot ignition coils and expansion chambers on mine- it would do 105. Agreed they are best at lower speeds.
arts
Addicted Member
I rode mine to college, too, even though the state had temporarily retired my driver's license...fortunately, train tracks from my house to campus were "Victor 500 friendly."
Out here we used to have a local scrambles event every summer at a buddies farm.There were a couple of old 441 Victor Specials (with equally antiquated operators) making the modern competition iron look pretty lethargic by comparison. When you've got torque,who gives a s**t about weight or horsepower..........
Nothing quite rattles your fillings like a big single on an open pipe (well,with a spark arrestor,hee hee) being ridden in anger
MaxxVolume
Lunatic Member
Back in the day, I spent a fair amount of time zipping up and down Routes 539 & 530 (my parents lived in Beachwood, my Aunt in Whiting), so it`s possible that our paths may have crossed on those back roads....Viva los Pineys !
There used to be one around my town which I lived in all my life now , with Dunstall exhaust . Didn't it sound great At the end of the 70's also was a kawasaki 900 with a turbo fitted There was no wastegate fitted and by goodness didn't it shift. But the CBX wins my vote
Bought one of these in 1980 - same colour scheme - having looked at it for over a year. Felt guilty about it thinking the money should have gone into the mortgage or something. Lovely bike but handled like a camel. Because I then worked overseas it was used more by my brother than me but I enjoyed it when home. Traded it in for a GPZ900 in '85, that was a step change..
Descartridge
Stereos been berry, berry good to me!
Lusted after one of these, Suzuki X-6 Hustler- 0 to 60 in 6 seconds (but had to settle for an 80cc. my college commuter )
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Nightcleaner
Super Member
I spoke with a man with a bike I remarked "what a machine it looked" I asked what it was, He said its a VMax He said he cant ever use it to its full capability anywhere because of it has no fairing.
You were saying Doug about owing a CBX Did you find you were limited in going over 100mph because there was no fairing. I was reminded after posting the pic that there was also a CBX in Town with piper exhaust system The bike after a certain amount of revs would Scream The sound was quite something.
petehall347
the brandy coffee man
making me wonder why cut off point pushing a ton ?
sKiZo
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Taking a different path. eh?
Fond memories of doing the trails on a Triumph Trophy kitted out with high pipes and knobbies.
ring a ding ding ding
ring a ding ding ding
RAP A RAP RAP RAP!!
Finally dropped that beast into a lake. Diver friend went down to look for it, but best he figured, it had buried itself in silt.
But ya know, they say on a full moon, if you listen close, you can still hear those TT pipes rapping away down below ... <G>
Poultrygeist
Lunatic Member
This is not my picture but my VT-700 looked identical. Honda made these Shadows for a few years to get around the stiffer import tariff on bikes above 700 cc. If I'm not mistaken HD filed a lawsuit against Honda stating the Shadows looked too much like their bikes but I don't see it?
petehall347
the brandy coffee man
pretty machine ... something about the name i cant quite Figure out yet ..used to like the dharma sports for some reasonround-case Ducati 750 Sport. 'nuff said.
dosmalo
T-Totaled
That was probably AMF that filed suit, remember, they made bowling balls.This is not my picture but my VT-700 looked identical. Honda made these Shadows for a few years to get around the stiffer import tariff on bikes above 700 cc. If I'm not mistaken HD filed a lawsuit against Honda stating the Shadows looked too much like their bikes but I don't see it?
LMAO.
Pio1980
AK Member
No, it was Harley-Harley, iirc. AMF previously had it's hands full rescuing HD with funding and replacing worn out machine tooling. Harley-Harley also tried to copyright it's single crankpin V-twin exhaust note.
I owned some HD, including AMF period bikes. They were all ok for what they honestly were.