desert_max
Well-Known Member
Hi Jerry nice to hear from your CBX-6 experience, here in Sweden/Europe they started selling them as model 1978... more or less the same as -79 in US.
As You describe this is the riding "improvement" bike.... With a 35 mm front leg dia (todays 125 cc has bigger dia!) this bike learns You (or not) how to handle that "Ferrari sound/power" bike.
Bought it 1995 as a "rat bike", renovating it myself 2006-2007 now in good running condition but not mint, likes to ride also.
Have just changed to modern Bridgestone tyres front and back this will be a real improvment next season. Just now preparing for winter season with special petrol devise to not clogg carburettors.
Todays petrol are dreadful to old bikes.. my new bikes with fuel injection handles it better I believe
LOVE My CBX but my VMAX is a far better bike in all practical aspects except for the look; a straight aircooled six cylinder without a lot of extra covers is a real bike.
// Lars
Sorry to again stray off the topic of Vmax overheating, but apparently there are a few of us here who have both a Vmax and a CBX. In a lot of ways, they are similar. Both get a lot of respect, both are relatively uncommon - of course the CBX is more scarce - and both run like scalded dogs. But they definitely run and behave differently. I love both, and if I had to narrow my collection down to two, that would be the two.
Oh and by the way, my ‘79 CBX was one owner bike when I purchased it (like my Vmax!), but it was definitely not original. An older CBX collector (82!), this was the last one he kept, it had been his baby for almost 40 years. All I did was clean it up and wake it up from a 10 year slumber.
Far more maintenance intensive than the Vmax, but I love the machine. Nothing else on the road like it.
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