Ancient V4 Muscle Bikes

[louemc]

This followed me home from Seattle to Astoria.

https://plus.google.com/photos/117713611778537864325/albums/5849736227591121185

I'll be doing some much needed de-fubarring to cure some wiring and fairing hacking woes. Otherwise the beastie runs very nicely indeed.

Anyone else ride ancient V4 Muscle?

Sweet Super Choice.

Never rode one..but ... They are too right to be anything but right.

 

[LtDan]

@Skip - yup. We're olde.

The cams look showroom new. This one has good oiling and enough miles that I'm confident that there are no problems looming.

Besides - it was free.

Oh, and thanks Discoganya for fixing my photo posting. I dunno why it wouldn't show the first time.

I still have the cam holder device to set the valves on a V4 honda.

 

[MC BumSlap]

Here's my $200 project V4. LOL

 

[Surj]

This was my dad's first bike. He's still riding (ST1300), just turned 64 last week. I've got a polaroid somewhere around here of myself age 6 perched on the Sabre (on its centerstand) in our garage.

Nice!

Now you guys got me thinking I need a V65 project. Uh oh.

 

[islemann]

Jeff - looks like a V45 Sabre (vf750S) yes? Nice project for $200. You can find tons of info and some good links to parts and service suppliers at sabmag. Have fun!

I'm going to go get the title and plate crap done on Monday. Lucky me - I live in a tiny town a hundred miles from the next big city in sales-tax free Oregon. Our DMV office wait is usually a walk-in walk-out in 10min affair. Plus two years worth of plate including the title transfer will cost me all of $115.

 

[channelcat]

when I did the valve adjust on this Magna, I saw the scores on the cam lobes that legend says were the bug about this production run. dunno. engine was so smooth, 100 to 140 accel was barely perceptible. no, you probably dint want to carve corners, but 140 on public roads is pretty dam fast anyway.
yah dat one fuck of a motor..

 

[6172crew]

You need to make a super moto out of her!

j/k, Ive riden a couple of those when I worked at Shermans Cycle Salvage (Super Cycle) in Concord. Those things rip!

 

[hayabusafiend]

While they're not on the bike at present - I even have the ultra-rare lowers for that Hondaline fairing.

They're called "winter lowers". I have a burgundy (almost purple) set of them with mounting hardware for a V45 Sabre that are collecting dust in my garage. Anyone know what year the V45 Sabre was offered in burgundy? My google image searches didn't provide a conclusive answer.

I should probably just ebay them.

 

[maxandgrinch]

Check the emissions stuff - Honda vented the charcoal canister into the frame.

I was able to put a finger through the right side down tube, then remove all the material you can see with a finger.

Awesomely this is where they vented the post-charcoal vapors. 25+ years worth, 60k miles in the case of my bike (OK it was $1; runs great) into an enclosed area that hasn't been treated for rust. This is not the side that unbolts so you can remove the engine.


Looking up from under the frame:

From another bike/thread AKA - Look how the previous owner fixed my bike:

 

[JO EBRMC]

This followed me home from Seattle to Astoria.

https://plus.google.com/photos/117713611778537864325/albums/5849736227591121185

I'll be doing some much needed de-fubarring to cure some wiring and fairing hacking woes. Otherwise the beastie runs very nicely indeed.

Anyone else ride ancient V4 Muscle?

Haha! I have that exact bike - even has a Corbin seat. Need to spend some time cleaning it up but it is in great shape for how long it has been sitting.

 

[islemann]

Cool beans Jerry! The more of these old beasts out scaring the younguns - the better.

 

[channelcat]

Check the emissions stuff - Honda vented the charcoal canister into the frame.

I was able to put a finger through the right side down tube, then remove all the material you can see with a finger.

Awesomely this is where they vented the post-charcoal vapors. 25+ years worth, 60k miles in the case of my bike (OK it was $1; runs great) into an enclosed area that hasn't been treated for rust. This is not the side that unbolts so you can remove the engine.


Looking up from under the frame:

From another bike/thread AKA - Look how the previous owner fixed my bike:

kinda makes me think about the whole CO2 sequester thing...stashing a gas

 

[tankerman]

Congrats on the bike and the price. Good luck on the knee thing too. Motor is likely fine I'd invest in brakes and shock's and you'll be riding a classic. Which,by the way, sounds much better than "ancient" to those of us who remember those things as the hottest thing back in the day.

 

[channelcat]

Kawi 600R, and KZs w/pumpers Yammy Rz350/400, & Honda V4s. Triumph wasnt on the map, and Ducati still a 'classic'. Of course, the 84 BMW R100RS with the Pinanfarina fairing was way ahead of its time...

 

[islemann]

I've long had a soft spot in my heart for those big long legged BMW R100RS bikes. Hell, the first semi-faired motorcycle I ever rode was a R80RS when I was at Beale AFB in the early '70s. To scratch that itch many years later I bought a series of Kawasaki Concours and rode the snot out of each of them. 5 Concs / 575,000 miles with the last one pulling yeoman's duty and racking up 278,000 miles all by its self. The V65 Sabre I have now is 29yrs old and has 33,500 miles on it since new. I did those kind of miles in 3 months on the ole Kwakkers.