1984 Honda V65 Magna, One of the Fastest Production Motorcycles in History
This is a motorcycle picture of a 1984 Honda V65 Magna which even to date is one of my favorite motorcycles. For the uninitiated, when this Honda motorcycle came out in 1983, it was the quickest production motorcycle of its day and would still be listed as one of the fastest production motorcycles in history. It was ridiculously fast, allowing a rider to quickly go past the safe parameters of the suspension and shaft drive limitations...but perhaps that was half the fun of this particular motorcycle. The appearance to me was awesome. Others said that it looked like the frame of the bike was magnetized and dragged across a big pile of scrap metal....lol. The early models had an inherent engineering problem that kept them from being the otherwise bulletproof motor that it could have been. This was a problem with inadequate oiling in the camshaft area, causing premature wear of the cams. It's funny that some of these motors lasted easily over 100,000 miles while others didn't go 10,000 without the problem rearing its ugly head. At one point or another, I have had at least 5 of these beasts in my personal motorcycle ownership. |