So..I bought a vintage Honda today...

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VTR1000F_imp

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..and I´m going to pick it up in München, Germany next week. It is 400 km one way trip.

I hope for a cheap fun with this little bike, made in 1979. Also it will be a good company to my CB1100.

Did you get these in your country? Did you have one back then?



 
Very nice :thumbsup:!

Here in Germany this model is called "Güllepumpe" (pump for liquid manure) :D. Based on a comic strip about the famous "Werner"- stories.


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Gustav
 
We had the 500 & 650 also. If I remember right; there were three models. The standard, Silver Wing and Turbo. Nice bikes.
 
A guy at work had one of those. It looked like it spent a year at the bottom of a lake, but the damn thing got him to work every day. At least it did until he low-sided it, courtesy of dry-rotted tires, rain, and the white paint they put at intersections. After that the glamour of riding a motorcycle was lost for the guy.
 
VTR1000F_imp said:
..and I´m going to pick it up in München, Germany next week. It is 400 km one way trip.

I hope for a cheap fun with this little bike, made in 1979. Also it will be a good company to my CB1100.

Did you get these in your country? Did you have one back then?
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We did. Some were very nice looking with two tone paint in metallic. The Silverwing was very good I understand. I also understand these were one of Honda's early attempts at V engines to counter the Harley sales surge. Took Honda a little while to get the V thing down...but they always like to do things their way which in the long run works best, I think.
 
Great all-around bike, a little gutless for my taste. I'd heard it was Honda's swipe at a Guzzi. Weak point is the stator -- when it fails, it's an engine-out-of-bike job. But they've got to be tough -- dispatch riders put 100's of 1000's of miles on them!
 
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I´m aware of the bike´s german nickname Gustav :-) I´m really looking forward to the trip. Pictures and report will follow.
 
I had one of the 1982 cx500 deluxe. I hit a deer on it in 2001 and totalled it out. It was a good running bike. Shaft drive and water cooled. I had to clean trash/rust from gas tank petcock. It ran perfect after that.
This is not the actual bike I had, but it is identical to it.
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Never owned one myself, but my riding buddies have, so I've heard lots of discussion about the Honda CX's. One has a CX650, and two others had a Silver Wing and even a turbo 500. Reliable bikes generally, but parts availability is becoming an issue. It seems the stator problems showed up on the 650 and the turbo in particular. Turbo's are rare - the 650 especially.

~ The Bee
 
Man, I do like that style old Honda. I searched and searched for quite a while for a CX500 or 650 when I was bitten by the bug to get a classic Honda. I couldn't find anything in VG condition. I wound up getting two CBs, a '78 400 twin and a '81 900 Custom to satisfy my urge. Had a lot of fun with them but finding original or original style quality parts was cutting into the fun factor and since I'm not a mechanic, I always worried if I could find someone to work on them if something major went wrong.

Sold both and bought my '13. Just as much if not more fun without the worries.
 
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