nighthawk

soooo here i was getting my vmax inspected. young kid comes out this a vmax from the 80s?? same style yes, but this is a 97. and he went on about how he dislikes the 2nd gen headlight and so on. he then asked me how fast i've been, i said 125, then i backed off, fast enough for me, lol..... oh...

Since a new bike just wasn't in the cards, I decided to go for the other end of the spectrum....the sub-$500 craigslist special as a bit of a project to keep me entertained. I turned up this 1985 Nighthawk 650, in Empire Blue for the princely sum of $300. As you can see, it's all there...

I used to own an 82 Nighthawk CB750SC with an inline four, the bike had awesome power and very fast. I sold it to a guy I used to work with and bought my 85 VMAX last year. My MAX is acting up and dumping fuel into the crankcase (but is getting fixed right now), but the guy who bought my old...