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82 Yamaha 650 Custom Bobber (romulus) on 2040-motos

$1,500
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Detroit Metro,

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82 Yamaha 650 custom bobber (Romulus), $1,500, image 1

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1982 Yamaha Xj650 Maxim, Custom bike jack Daniels theme, Original tank chopped and sealed with new petcock and strainer, new sealed battery, new shocks, forks rebuilt, carbs rebuilt and jetted for breathers and open pipes, new LED rear cats eye tail light and front signals, Jack Daniels fifth bottle tin houses all electrical fuses and ignition. I have put 5500 mis on it this summer with no problems. Handles great, fun bar hopper that gets a ton of attention!!Now It's an old bike that's dependable and could use A few things to make it ready for the next season such as carbs need recalibrating and valves need adjusted for peak performance and a set of tires by the end of this season. All gauges/lamps/switches work, new grips, all fluids/filters changed, new plugs and breathers, New Handle bar, New Clutch and Clutch Cable. Clear Mi green Title, 1500 FIRM. Joe - 313- five seven five- 4555. No joy rides, must have cash I can hold to test ride

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See Britain's land speed record hopeful at Race Retro 2010

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

SEE THE MACHINE that could propel Britain to a new motorcycle land speed world record at The Race Retro 2010 show, held at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry from 12th to 14th March. Almost a year has passed since Visordown broke the news of the planned UK assault on the land speed record - this coming August the Angelic Bulldog team travels to Bonneville, where it is hoping to smash the 400mph barrier and bring the motorcycle Land Speed Record back to the UK for the first time since 1937. The current record stands at 360.913mph over a kilometre.

Frog eBike – the Electric Successor to 1985 Frog FZ750 Concept

Tue, 03 Apr 2012

San Francisco-based Frog Design released images of a new electric motorcycle concept, just as its influential Yamaha FZ750-based Rana concept gets enshrined at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Frog designer Jin Soek Hwang prepared the Frog eBike concept as an expression of how electric motor technology can influence motorcycle design. In a post on Frog’s blog, the designer says he was inspired in part by Frog’s 1985 FZ750 Rana concept (pictured after the jump).

Yamaha to Cut Motorcycle Production in 2009

Thu, 26 Feb 2009

With mounting inventories coupled with a drop in demand, Yamaha will be cutting its motorcycle production in Japan by 24 percent this year or to about 260,000 total units; one newspaper reported this would be a 40-year low for the manufacture. Yamaha plans to cut production for motorcycles and other products by 30 percent in the Americas, 20 percent in Europe but will maintain production levels in Asia where demand has not dropped off. The company is forecasting its group sales to fall 22 percent with an operating loss of about $300 million.