Re: If it weren't for the customers, this job would be the sh*t

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > "Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > > > The turbo was an excellent bike although not any more power than
>> > > > the
>> > > > standard 650 Seca,
>> > >
>> > > Really?  You could get the same speed and acceleration out of the
>> regular
>> > > 650 without dealing with the turb lag time?  That would be
>> > > incredible.
>> >
>> > That was the bad part of that bike, If I remember Yamaha tried to
>> > reduce
>> the
>> > turbo boost to make it a more "civilized" bike compared to the Honda
> CX500
>> > Turbo and the Suzuki 650 Turbo, in the end they got an excellent bike
> with
>> > no major advantage over the stock 650 other than a damn nice looking
>> > fairing. I almost bought one.
>>
>> Interesting.  I only ever had one other 650.  That was the Yamaha
>> Heritage
>> Special (XS650).  It had nowhere near the gut wrenching acceleration or
> the
>> top speed of the Seca Turbo.  That Seca was easily the fastest bike I
>> have
>> ever owned.  I had it radared once by a friendly highway patrolman on a
>> stretch of old highway.  I hit 165 and was still accelerating when I shut
> it
>> down.  The end of the road was looking way to close for me at that speed.
> I
>> would have made a couple more runs, but he got a call and had to go.
>
>
> Well that Heritage was a twin so I could see why it didn't have the
> acceleration, I had a Suzuki 650 Tempter with the same configuration that
> couldn't crack 100
>
>
>
> I hate to question you but there is no way a Turbo Seca could have ever
> gone
> that fast or even close to 165. The fastest turbo bike made from the big 4
> was the Kawasaki 750 and it topped out at 150. I had a Suzuki GS1150 that
> would do 140. That trooper needed to get his gun fixed
>
>> Look at my list and guess which bike was the next fastest of all those I
>> have owned.
>
> The CB750?

Not even close.   75 GL1000   Had two of them.  One was bone stock and would
run about 135.  The other had mac headers and was rejetted, it would clear
140.  Its pretty funny because my 4 carb GL1200 standard barely hit 125.

VROD was proably next at 130-131.  I hear the new bigger VROD is a little
faster.

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Current Rides (Yuma, Az)
2005 VN1600B2 Kawasaki Vulcan Mean Streak
2001 VLX600 Honda Shadow (for sale)
2003 FLTR Harley Road Glide (wife's bike)
1981 CM200T Honda Twin (project)

Past Rides
1996 VF750C Honda Magna
1976 CL350 Honda
1986 VT500C Honda Shadow
1976 GL1000 Honda Goldwing
1984 VT700C Honda Shadow
1976 GL1000 Honda Goldwing
1981 XS650 Yamaha Heritage Special
198X KZ440LTD Kawasaki
1985 CX500 Honda
1981 FX 1200 Harley Super Glide
1969 SOHC CB750 Honda
198X GN250 Suzuki
1988 VLX600 Honda Shadow
1984 GL1200 Honda Goldwing
1997 FLHT Harley Electra Glide
2002 VRSCA Harley V-Rod
** I knew I forgot one or two
198X Seca 650 Turbo Yamaha
197X Paughco Springer (sans engine)



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