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30-07-05, 11:53 AM

supervox wrote

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harrisman wrote:
so what if styling is similar it is still totally unique!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmmmmmmm - methinks there might be something a teensy weensy bit wrong with this sentence !!!

i meant unique as in there aint anybody else on the market tht makes anything like his work!!!!!!! sorry my incorrect use of language!!

northwind · 30-07-05, 01:37 PM

Who in the world would want a road going turbo 1500cc Busa? I can understand it for posing on, or dragging, or if you really want to get in Streetfighters, but it's not going to make much of a commuter is it

Supercharger would make more sense than turbo in this application, I assume, since it's generally more usable on the road, right?

30-07-05, 03:46 PM

There are a few nutters who use turbos on the road, they save the NOS for the strip....

Way back in the 80's there was a turbo bike from each of the japanese manufacturers, Yamaha put a turbo and a square fairing on their XJ650, I rode one was kinda fun but gutless low down.
http://www.xj650.de/galerie/xj650_turbo/xj650_turbo.htm

Honda had a CX500 turbo, maybe even CX650 turbo in the free world.
Ugly as sin the lot of 'em.
http://www.honda.ca/MotorcycleEng/Cl...1981+CX500.htm

The Suzuki XN85 was no better ...
http://www.motorbikes.be/en/Suzuki/1...%2085%20Turbo/

Best of that bad bunch was the Kawasaki GPZ 750 Turbo
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20...rbo%201984.htm

northwind · 30-07-05, 04:26 PM

Turbos for a sensible engine I can understand, but turbos for an already oversized Busa engine on the road just seems a bit daft. Though I know people do build street legal drag bikes of course.

30-07-05, 01:37 PM	#32
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Who in the world would want a road going turbo 1500cc Busa? I can understand it for posing on, or dragging, or if you really want to get in Streetfighters, but it's not going to make much of a commuter is it Supercharger would make more sense than turbo in this application, I assume, since it's generally more usable on the road, right? __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

30-07-05, 04:26 PM	#34
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Turbos for a sensible engine I can understand, but turbos for an already oversized Busa engine on the road just seems a bit daft. Though I know people do build street legal drag bikes of course. __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

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30-07-05, 03:46 PM	#33
BURNER Guest Posts: n/a	There are a few nutters who use turbos on the road, they save the NOS for the strip.... Way back in the 80's there was a turbo bike from each of the japanese manufacturers, Yamaha put a turbo and a square fairing on their XJ650, I rode one was kinda fun but gutless low down. http://www.xj650.de/galerie/xj650_turbo/xj650_turbo.htm Honda had a CX500 turbo, maybe even CX650 turbo in the free world. Ugly as sin the lot of 'em. http://www.honda.ca/MotorcycleEng/Cl...1981+CX500.htm The Suzuki XN85 was no better ... http://www.motorbikes.be/en/Suzuki/1...%2085%20Turbo/ Best of that bad bunch was the Kawasaki GPZ 750 Turbo http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20...rbo%201984.htm