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199x-1998 Honda FT 500 '82
After I crashed my car, I bought this motorcycle.
What sums this bike up for me?
- had Koni back shock absorber
- bad front shock absorber
- oil leaking cylinder head
- something loose in the exhaust
- simple tech, easy to fix and maintain
- good handling
- pretty ugly :-)
1998-2001 Aprilia Pegaso '98
I rode this bike about 26Mm and sold it for the BMW.
What sums this bike up for me?
- a beauty
- badly designed ignition box, after "adjusting"[1] it, the hickup below 5000rpm was gone
- weak Sachs back shock absorber, died after 15Mm, exchanged it for one with handwheel for adjustment, luckily I could convince someone in italy[2] to get it on warranty
- Hepco and Becker sucks - those folks even denied that there is such thing as resonance frequency, which was in fact exactly at 4000rpm, wenn the whole mount began shaking and buzzing
- loosing screws
- a beauty[3]
2001-2008 BMW R1150GS '01
Bought in 2001...
...I rode it for nearly 8 years until I sold it 2008.
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