Valkyrie Interstate - Page 4

 

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I was slightly off.  While some parts are cheaper, most are about the same
price.  My memory must have fooled me, as I haven't bought brake parts for
the RS for a year or so.

Still, they are cheaper than I expected.

It certainly wasn't a big seller, and it was only on the market 8 years,
including the Rune, while the redesigned RS has been out for 14 years, and
uses quite a few parts from the old Venture Royale.

Seems a lot of parts work with the Goldwing, as well as other large Hondas
like the VTX1800.

Still, plenty of Valkyrie only parts don't seem to have the price premium
you'd expect.  I did a quick scan of parts prices before I decided to get
it, just to make sure I wasn't buying a two-wheeled Rolls Royce, and they
seemed about the same.  Now that I'm looking for specific parts for a
specific bike, I find they're even cheaper than I saw before.

A used rear caliper for my RS cost about the same as the Valkyrie.  A new
tank from www.powerpartsplus.com cost about the same for both bikes.

Strange, but damn nice!

CS

 



If you sit down with a series of parts books, you'll probably find that
Honda rummaged in their parts bin for things like brakes, electrical
components, Lord knows what else. As for the engine, that's straight
1500 Wing, really, so no worries there.

Plus there's an extraordinary amount of parts interchangeability between
items that outwardly look totally different. Brake discs and calipers
are a classic example. The difficulty here is that you don't know what
fits what until you try it (or someone else does and kindly puts the
details on the web).

That reminds me. As a Ducati owner, I've found this site

http://www.docsa.com.au/Technical%20stuff/Technical%20Stuff%20Alternativ
e%20Parts.htm

to be handy on occasion. The (few) Ducati owners on reeky might, as
well.

I mean, who'd have thought that a Monster headlight glass would be the
same as an old airhead BMW's?


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I had to Google that. Looks like what we call a CRV. Smallish
soft-roader.

A friend had one, and I had to drive it across France a couple of years
ago, towing a hot air balloon.

Hated it. Beautifully built, but whoever decided that a semi-4x4 needed
a full-on VTEC sports car engine must have been out of their mind. The
diesel would have been OK, I think.

Even solo, as it were, it was just the wrong engine for the car. Smooth
and whizzzy and revvy, as all hell but all the torque and horsepower was
stacked at the top end of the rev range. A sports car engine, like I
said. And the fuel consumption was crap, like you said.

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Kawasaki GT550  Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250  Damn, up to nine bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
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  On 8/30/2010 1:40 AM, The Older Gentleman wrote:

Odd - in North America, Honda uses the "CRV" name for something completely
different.  Namely, the smallest "SUV" in the lineup.

Bob M.

 



I think that's what it is. Not that Honda does many UVs here.

Let's have another Google.

Honda Pilot:

http://pilothonda.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/honda-pilot.jpg

CRV (old model)

http://www.netcarshow.com/honda/2001-cr-v/800x600/wallpaper_04.htm

You're quite right: different model. Bigger. No wonder it drinks fuel.

Mind you, I still detest the VTEC CRV.....

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Kawasaki GT550  Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250  Damn, up to nine bikes!
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