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79 is old model with wheels bearing which should be greasing each 1800 miles and so on, really old school

Nice machine......I have my dad's 83 ironhead here, the tranny broke loose somehow and two gears got together. I'm hoping this winter to stuff a new (to me) tranny in it and get her back on the street in the spring.

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74 H2B with reeds and 34mm carbs
75 S3A Ram Air with reeds and 30mm carbs
73 S2A (wife's bike)
71 Yammi RT1B
83 HD Sportster
03 Yammi R1
06 Kaw 750 Vulcan (wife’s bike)
12 Yammi vstar 250 (wife’s bike)

Well it didn't sell, guess I'm taking it to work Tuesday. I'll bring some tools. It's 32 miles round trip. Better bikes than this one haven't made it, lol.

http://stjoseph.craigslist.org/mcy/3404796363.html

$2150

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steve

A freind of mine was given a nice white sportster by her step father, he bought it but was afraid of it. She brought it over for the obligatory carb cleaning/plug and oil change. It was easy to work on and looked like a new bike, when we finished she let me take it for a ride...OMG, they really are as slow as people say, I twisted the throttle in first and it started to miss, like super bad, same thing in second and third...then I realized it was on the rev limiter....at 6,500 rpm, it hit the limiter in top gear at 85mph !!!

Then Motorcyclist has a short blurb about the orginal that came out in 1959, it was faster and lighter than the 2009 model.

Its not apple to apple, actually it would be like comparing a water melon to a grape, but a ZX14 has a higher top speed in 1st gear than a Sportster in fifth.

hahaha revlimiter. This is how you get around that - "reprogram!!!"

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

Barry, I think you have to buy an adapter to plug that into a '79.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

CAn you get it to 6,600 with that?........

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

You can get around the rev limiter, but you can't get around that engine design. It won't make any more power as-is.

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1972 H2, modified and Tracy bodied. 77 Kawi 1000. Lime green. Cafe. Lester wheels.

excepted 79 sportster is points model, without injection isn't it