[seruzawa]

The MachIII was the 500 triple. It had two engine power modes... bog and wheelie. A friend of mine had one of those 750 Mach IVs with expansion chambers and some porting. It made a LOT of horsepower in the most unpleasant manner possible. I could get around the Angeles Crest much more quickly on my much heavier CB750F. The good old Honda didn't have the flexy flyer frame and didn't tend to spin the rear wheel at every opportunity.

 

[xseal]

I have a double bubble screen, and it makes a noticable difference from stock only on the track. For street use, there is no difference w/ the stock/non-bubble screen.

 

[30968]

I tried doing just that on my Sprint ST. Didn't fit.

 

[48502]

Thanks for the info. I have an '03 ZZR600 which is the same bike as yours. Think I'll go with the ZG screen, also.

 

[30968]

I've used both on my Sprint ST. Note that he's talking about a touring Laminar Lip, not the regular one. My double bubble screen is fine in terms of buffeting, but it puts the wind right at my neck. The Lip pushes it higher, about to ear-level.

 

[drayer]

I've got the Lip on my Honda ST1100 and it works okay. I sometimes ride with open face and with the Lip light rain and bugs fly over the top - without the Lip I catch some in the face. Keeping the Lip and the windshield clean is kind of a pain - when the bugs fly up through the funneled air flow between the screen and the Lip they leave splat as they disintegrate and you have to take the Lip off to erase their little skid marks.

 

[cruiz-euro]

Re: Blue Nose

Sorry but you guys have no idea what cold is. I´m from Finland and when it was colder than minus 30 the cabin "temperature" of my Citroen BX never rose higher than minus 9. And to keep it there you had to keep the fan blowing. Me and my buddies used beer coolers to prevent the cans freezing.

- cruiz-euro

 

[mscuddy]

You might want to try the fall '05 JC Whitney catalog.



BTW, I got this big plastic bubble deal from the JCW folks that don’t create zero gravity or anything, but it sure looks cool. Has kind of a blue tint to it, and fit right over the turn signals on my CB350. Makes the bike look like an NSU streamliner!



I think most riders overlook the veritable cornucopia of great bike parts found in the JCW catalog. I mean, after all…



Where else can you find matching syncopating hula-dancers for the saddlebags of your Gold Wing?



JC the Whitney man!



Or that hard-to-find flexible chrome PVC edge molding? With light emitting diodes! Christ, I thought the EPA outlawed that stuff (It'll be the only thing they'll find after a nuclear blast. That and Dodge Darts).



Or the "SUPER-LOUD 125dB BLAST HORN

Our highest decibel rated horn!" Got one for the Dreamcycle, now I'm king of the road! Out of my way! (Makes the headlight dim though.) The sound only lasts a millisecond, so you have to keep hitting the horn button. Sounds like "The Car" chasing James Brolin across Arizona.



Remember JCW, and they’ll reward you for buying something by sending you free catalogs for the next 30 years. Even if you move, or get incarcerated, the JCW catalog will show up every few weeks without fail.



One of the constants in the universe.

 

[mscuddy]

Re: Blue Nose

Yeah, but we got to wear those neat LOX boots.

 

[mscuddy]

It's 80 in Burbank, and I can't decide what bike to ride. The Valmobile?

 

[32819]

If you install a relay in the horn circuit, you'll get the full output from the Super Highway Blaster horn, without having the engine stall on the CB350 if you "stay on the button" too long.



A word of warning though. Don't position it too closely to the blue bubble fairing. Under Winter conditions, the plastic gets brittle and the sound pressure waves from the horn might shatter it (leading to the inevitable law suit by your survivors, the financial ruin of JCW, the end of the catalogs, and just generally disrupting the ebb and flow of the universe).



You surely don't want to be remembered by motorcyclists in the same way as the "scalded genitalia" lady at McDonalds is by those hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of non-litigeous Americans who spill coffee on themselves, while trying to figure out what the Hell "CHAUD!" means... if they drink from the "French" side of the cup. This is also why the JCW catalog isn't mailed to Quebec.

 

[64546]

Lainar Lip etc.

Just do stay away from the Klock Werks windshield. I paid my $160 after reading their claims and tests just to get the air sucked out of my lungs by the turbulance. They will not stand behind their product either. After about 10 miles of suffering I have the original Harley Roadglide shield back on and Klock Werks in a Box.