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  • #16
    If I was to go with that big of a bike, and I thought I'd never say this, the GW F9B is looking pretty good to me. Check out the pics in this Cycle World article:

    http://www.cycleworld.com/2012/11/12...6b-first-look/
    1980G Standard, Restored
    Kerker 4 - 1
    850 Rear End Mod
    2-21 Flashing LED Arrays on either side of license plate for Brake Light Assist, 1100 Lumen Cree Aux Lights,
    Progressive springs, Showa rear shocks
    Automatic CCT
    1980GH Special, Restored
    Stock Exhaust, New Handlebars, 1" Spacer in Fork Springs, Automatic CCT, Showa Rear Shocks
    '82 XJ1100 (Sold)
    Automatic CCT, RC Engineering 4 X 1 Exhaust, K&N Pods, #50 Pilot Jets, YICS Eliminator. Sorely missed.

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    • #17
      Now, THAT IS BADASS!!
      1979 XS1100F
      2H9 Mod, Truck-Lite LED Headlight, TECHNA-FIT S/S Brake Lines, Rear Air Shocks, TKAT Fork Brace, Dyna DC-I Coils, TC Fuse Block, Barnett HD Clutch Springs, Superbike Handlebars, V-Star 650 ACCT, NGK Irridium Plugs, OEM Exhaust. CNC-Cut 2nd Gear Dogs; Ported/Milled Head; Modded Airbox: 8x8 Wix Panel Filter; #137.5 Main Jet, Viper Yellow Paint, Michelin Pilot Activ F/R, Interstate AGM Battery, 14MM MC, Maier Fairing, Cree LED Fog Lights.

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      • #18
        Ugh.. It's a Valk with a different headlight and side bags.
        Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

        You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

        Current bikes:
        '06 Suzuki DR650
        *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
        '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
        '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
        '81 XS1100 Special
        '81 YZ250
        '80 XS850 Special
        '80 XR100
        *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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        • #19
          Originally posted by trbig View Post
          Ugh.. It's a Valk with a different headlight and side bags.
          +1 and FUGLY is an understatement!
          2-79 XS1100 SF
          2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
          80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
          Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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          • #20
            Originally posted by trbig View Post
            Ugh.. It's a Valk with a different headlight and side bags.
            I agree that is isn't much better, but it does make it look a little better.
            Nathan
            KD9ARL

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            1978 XS1100E
            K&N Filter
            #45 pilot Jet, #137.5 Main Jet
            OEM Exhaust
            ATK Fork Brace
            LED Dash lights
            Ammeter, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, and Volt Meters
            Green Monster Coils
            SS Brake Lines
            Vision 550 Auto Tensioner

            In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

            Theodore Roosevelt

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Cobia View Post
              If I was to go with that big of a bike, and I thought I'd never say this, the GW F9B is looking pretty good to me. Check out the pics in this Cycle World article:

              http://www.cycleworld.com/2012/11/12...6b-first-look/

              Its better than the Valk....but not as cool lookin as the other Wings.......too much plastic hiding everything
              79F
              "Excelsior"
              Honda gl1100 handlebar
              Vetter IV fairing with speaker system
              OE headers,Jardine slipons
              Hid headlight 6000k
              Stock jets
              Shinko 712 F & R
              Oe hardbags and luggage rack
              TC fuse block
              K&n filter with oe airbox
              Raptor 660 Acct

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              • #22
                Try this on for size........

                http://www.ohgizmo.com/2013/11/06/wo...-a-gunbus-410/
                Greg

                Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

                ― Albert Einstein

                80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

                The list changes.

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                • #23
                  Awwww, trying to say what's good looking in a bike is like deciding what's good looking in a woman: there's more than one answer and some of the criteria contradict. It's not Mother Teresa ugly; maybe Kardashian ugly...too plastic and contrived.

                  In general, I like the old Valks in their bike-wrapped-around-a-big-engine configuration (like the XS11) and dislike the excess plastic, can't-see-the-bike designs. I have contemplated picking up one of the numerous old 'Wings for sale and stripping it down to bobbed Valk status, but then remember the other abortive projects I should finish first. I don't like a bike that seems to try too hard to be hip.

                  Every innovation has a set of fans and detractors. Seventy years ago there were guys moaning about the fenders on an Indian Chief that most of us would cherish today. And the Ol' XS has been bobbed, chopped, chained, wide-tired, etc., to the consternation of most of us. Taste...meh.
                  "Time is the greatest teacher; unfortunately, it kills all of its students."

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by BA80 View Post
                    Try this on for size........

                    http://www.ohgizmo.com/2013/11/06/wo...-a-gunbus-410/
                    How about this ...

                    http://www.motorcycle.com/how-to/top...les-89959.html

                    I like the V8!
                    Marco

                    Current bikes:
                    1979 Yamaha XS Eleven Special (SF)
                    1979 Honda CBX
                    2002 Kawasaki ZRX1200R

                    Rest in Peace, Don Glardon (DGXSER) 1966-2014
                    WE MISS YOU, DON

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