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Brumbear
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 05:24 pm: | 
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Jamie was your seca 650 a turbo? I remember afriend of mine had a 750 and another had a 650 but the 650 was a turbo and a widow maker at that |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 06:48 pm: |
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I saw a pic of one some cretin called "the most dangerous bike in the world" covered in spikes and razor blades. Way more insane... like the difference between suicidal depression and the Joker. Don't remember the source. |
Iman501
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 07:00 pm: |
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i've seen a helmet with knife blades sticking out the top of it like a mohawk before! |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 07:10 pm: |
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I love it when pathogens add their own bleach to the gene pool. |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 11:15 pm: |
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Brumbear: No, I had the plain XJ650RJ. It was popular in Europe, but it was only sold here for one year. Damned shame, it was a NICE bike. The Turbo model was sold in 82/83 so it got one more year. The two bikes LOOKED very different, but under the bodywork the turbo used the same frame as the naked model.
Here's my bike with a Vetter Rooster Fairing installed, circa 1982 or 1983 (forget which):
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Xbrad9r
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 12:54 am: |
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Jaimec, I need that fairing for my Uly ! |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 05:09 am: |
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Vetter Rooster Fairing
Known in our island nation as a sail or spinnaker.
The 650 turbos were very space-age looking for their time but the electrics were abysmal on every one I've come across. |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 08:55 am: |
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It was a pretty cool-looking fairing, but the mounting system was primitive. It couldn't take the pounding day-to-day riding on New York streets gave it and it soon cracked around all the mounting points.
It was difficult (if not impossible) to find fairings that fit around the ENORMOUS headlight that thing carried (it had the same 8-inch blazer the Suzuki GS1100 carried). Eventually I gave up on the idea of a fairing after many expensive experiments.
That headlight was GREAT at night though... especially when I swapped out the stock (and legal) 55/65W bulb for a 55/100W! |
U4euh
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 01:54 pm: |
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I had an 82 750 Seca, 1st 'street' bike. 1st time I touched a knee was on it(probably about 1/millionth of a second, scared me to death!) Charcoal gray, bought it from an older guy and it had 1200 miles on it. Mine had the sqaure headlight with a smaller driving light underneath it. It also had the optional 'sport' fairing that Yamaha made for it, which wasnt very much different than that Vetter, just smaller and longer. It had on onboard check"computer" that would tell you the status of important things(ie oil, sidestand,etc)
Man I rode the ever-living-^(&! outta that bike. When I sold it it had too many miles to remember, 2nd gear was gone(trying to race and missing the shift)! Otherwise it was still a blast ride.
MAN you talk bout some great memories!!! |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 04:13 pm: |
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The SECA 750 was the first production motorcycle fitted with Anti-Dive. I remember the bike well! |
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