Honda NT700 Deauville add ons & BS

Some of the on going tweaks and additions to my 2010 NT700.. Plus some info i did not know about the linked braking system.. this machine does not have ABS..(dont like abs on a motorcycle due to a bad experience on my bmw k1200lt with abs that gave me zero brakes while going downhill on a paved road with flyash on the road.. I had to run into a fence at the bottom of the hill to stop only breaking my front fender.. i sold that machine as soon as my new fender came in..

[@1stpaintballmaster]

Nice walk around. I have a cramp buster on my throttle and it came with a rubber band. Try putting a rubber band between the foam and the plastic, it will help it grab in the one direction better.
Also do you like the tank pad? I thought about adding one but never really touch the bike there.

[@Jodyrides]

@@1stpaintballmaster I never thought of the tank pad. Is that not a stock OEM item. I’m learning all the time little extras. This bike has on it from the original owner..
Thanks for the tip on making that twist assist. Get some traction on those soft foam rubber grips. They usually grip well enough on the solid rubber grips and on my heated grips. But not on the Phone groups because they compress over time.. I will try that with the rubber bands. I was going to heat up the twist assist with a heat gun and close it in on itself a bit. But I think it would just crush my grip even further if I do that. I will try the rubber band trick. I just bought two new bags of rubber bands at the dollar store, A bag of larger ones, and a bag with lots of multicolored, smaller rubber bands. I will try that .. Thanks

[@altec19]

Suzuki made the cavalcade 1400cc

[@Jodyrides]

@@altec19
I re-watched the video, you are correct I made a mistake by not distinguishing between the Kawasaki and the Suzuki. The Kawasaki was the voyager, the suzuki was the cavalcade, and that was the most loaded with features of all four of the big touring bikes from Japan. It had air bladders in the seats that you could adjust with the onboard compressor. It had self adjusting valves, I think. I have ridden the cavalcade.. The Honda was the smoothest, the Yamaha was the best handling, and the quickest, but the suzuki was the one that was loaded up with lots of features..
right around that time Kawasaki actually had an in-line six cylinder that had two alternators on it. Put.
out 500 watts.. but I don’t know if they ever put a set of bags/trunk fairing on that six cylinder Kawasaki. It was just like the first year of the Goldwing, no fairing bags or trunk. One of the motorcycle salesman that I worked with had one of those Kawasaki six-cylinder street, bikes, and that was his only transportation here in hilly/icy/snowy Pittsburgh during the winter. I remember one day he showed up three hours late in a snowstorm on that big heavy six-cylinder…
looked exactly like Freddie Prince. He went to Florida on vacation on that bike and never came back. One of the most laid-back easy-going nothing bothers him people I ever met.. i’m not positive, but I think those Kawasaki, six cylinder water, cooled Machines of the mid-1980s or maybe a little earlier had 3/2 barrel carburetor’s
I never rode one
Honda certainly was not the first with a six cylinder engine. Bonelli had the SEI years earlier, Laverda had a V6 racing endurance machine with shaft drive back in the 70s.
but way way way before anybody, I think around 1903 or they’re about . Aviation, genius and inventor of the V-twin engine that was stolen by Indian and then stolen by Harley, glenn, Curtis, build an eight cylinder engine for his motorcycle they did 136 miles an hour in 1903. He also invented the V-twin engine for a motorcycle because he could see, that motorcycles in those days were basically bicycles with single cylinder engines. He could see that a second cylinder could be added in the frame with ease, and that’s what he did..
he also came up with the solution for airplanes, having problems taking off from muddy fields because they didn’t have paved airports. So glenn, Curtis figured out that if you put a second spark plug in each cylinder, that will give the engines the added power to be able to take off from muddy fields. That was back in the days of those biplanes.

[@altec19]

Thanks for all the info !
Yeah, that cavalcade was the last to enter the race of Japanese touring bikes, and the first one to drop out