Unusual bikes you've had?
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I was thinking about my first "big" bike today. A 1985/6 Yamaha XJ700X Maxim X import.
The Maxim was fairly common in 550/650 aircooled guise, but the X had a 20 valve watercooled FZ750 Genesis engine in.
700cc because of the Harley-led USA legislation at the time. Canadian versions were called the Seca and had 750cc.
Very rare nowadays. In fact very rare 14 years ago when I had it! I've never seen another one in the metal, but my brother tells me he saw one a few years ago. It was unreliable as f
k, but I can't say that wasn't entirely unrelated to being maintained by an 18 year old me!
What rare bikes have you had?
Not mine, mine was blue:
The Maxim was fairly common in 550/650 aircooled guise, but the X had a 20 valve watercooled FZ750 Genesis engine in.
700cc because of the Harley-led USA legislation at the time. Canadian versions were called the Seca and had 750cc.
Very rare nowadays. In fact very rare 14 years ago when I had it! I've never seen another one in the metal, but my brother tells me he saw one a few years ago. It was unreliable as f
k, but I can't say that wasn't entirely unrelated to being maintained by an 18 year old me!What rare bikes have you had?
Not mine, mine was blue:
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