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Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - chopper - 05-02-2025
If I didn't already own two ...giant killers
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-02-2025
I would be hard-pressed to justify buying a bike that old. Parts can be difficult to find and I much prefer FI to carbs. She is a beauty, though.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - bobinmurphy - 05-02-2025
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I would be hard-pressed to justify buying a bike that old. Parts can be difficult to find and I much prefer FI to carbs. She is a beauty, though.
Yup. I had a '72 Honda 350K3 twin and when the mufflers rusted out I did a nationwide search for replacements. Finally found the last two sitting on a shelf in a dealers parts room in Ohio. Bought them, but after that I was dealing with a local machine and welding shop to come up with parts. Sold the bike to a collector who fell in love with it at first sight. He got an excellent price and I got more room in my garage.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - kj - 05-02-2025
Interesting, the only Hawk I knew of was the old one with the automatic like the trail 90, which wasn’t real sexy.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-02-2025
kj wrote:
Interesting, the only Hawk I knew of was the old one with the automatic like the trail 90, which wasn’t real sexy.
My first bike was a ‘78 Honda Hawk like the one below.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - Harbourmaster - 05-03-2025
I'm a Suzuki guy myself but that is a sharp looking Hawk!
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - kj - 05-03-2025
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=kj]
Interesting, the only Hawk I knew of was the old one with the automatic like the trail 90, which wasn’t real sexy.
My first bike was a ‘78 Honda Hawk like the one below.
That’s it! I bet that was a dang good bike.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - AllGold - 05-03-2025
I didn't have a Honda Hawk, I had a Honda Nighthawk 650. Like this one:
That was a long time ago.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - RAMd®d - 05-03-2025
Now the 650 Nighthawk (CB650SC) was a great bike.
I had a chance to get one very low mileage, in pristine shape, but just didn't have the room to keep it.
Putting a few hundred miles on it was a pleasure.
I should have shoehorned it in; it was a great UJM.
The Honda Hawk GT (NT650) was another great 'Hawk' in the Honda aviary.
It looked more 'performance' than it rode, but it was still a great bike.
Re: Craig's site offers a really sweet Honda Hawk - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-03-2025
kj wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=kj]
Interesting, the only Hawk I knew of was the old one with the automatic like the trail 90, which wasn’t real sexy.
My first bike was a ‘78 Honda Hawk like the one below.
That’s it! I bet that was a dang good bike.
It certainly was. Within weeks of buying it, I rode it from L.A. to Lodi to attend my grandfather’s funeral, then on to San Jose to visit a friend, then back home to L.A. I was all of 20 years old at the time — it was one of the greatest experiences of my life up to that point.
And, yes, Honda did offer an automatic version of this bike.