02-20-2014, 09:07 AM
How long did you have it? How many miles did you put on it? And why Tylenol? (Aftermarket exhausts?)
It was a fun and beautiful bike, but it had a few other major problems. Feeble brakes, terrible fuel economy, speedometer was way off, a 1000cc twin with the peformance of a 600 I-4, and while the rearward weight bias made the Superhawk a wheelie-monstah, it also made the bike handle strange; the front tire would make a scary howling noise when cornering fast enough.
None of the front tires I tried ever let go, but they all made that noise, and they wore out almost 1-to-1 with rear tires.
Just about every other bike I've had used about two rear tires per front tire.
Edit: Oh yeah, and even though I kept it stock, it was a mushroom-cloud layin' mutha. It backfired sometimes when braking, and sometimes when starting. My friend James had these carbon-fiber Acrapovic mufflers on his VTR and shattered his right muffler while starting his bike in front of a Starbucks once--scared the bejeezus out of everyone there.
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It was a fun and beautiful bike, but it had a few other major problems. Feeble brakes, terrible fuel economy, speedometer was way off, a 1000cc twin with the peformance of a 600 I-4, and while the rearward weight bias made the Superhawk a wheelie-monstah, it also made the bike handle strange; the front tire would make a scary howling noise when cornering fast enough.
None of the front tires I tried ever let go, but they all made that noise, and they wore out almost 1-to-1 with rear tires.
Just about every other bike I've had used about two rear tires per front tire.
Edit: Oh yeah, and even though I kept it stock, it was a mushroom-cloud layin' mutha. It backfired sometimes when braking, and sometimes when starting. My friend James had these carbon-fiber Acrapovic mufflers on his VTR and shattered his right muffler while starting his bike in front of a Starbucks once--scared the bejeezus out of everyone there.