83 Honda Nighthawk 650

[EclipseTurbno93]

So I sold my 250 for a nice, healthy sum and decided to move up to something bigger. I had a fairly short list of things I wanted (air cooled, 500 or bigger, in mostly running condition). I was gravitating towards older Honda's when this one kind of dropped into my lap from someone originally looking to trade for the 250. 

When I went to go look we found it had a pretty serious fuel leak, but ran great and was rideable. After a few days of thinking and going to look at a completely junk 84, I offered him $600 which he accepted. 

These bikes are pretty cool, sort of ahead of their time in many ways. They were designed to be "maintenance free" and has self adjusting valves and shaft drive. It also comes with a six speed, adjustable anti-dive on the front forks, and lcd fuel and gear displays. Also, I get a tach now which is a nice upgrade. This ones also got an aftermarket exhaust and it sounds great. 

Oh and I almost forgot the most important thing of all: It has flames!!





I will try to get better pictures the next time I am home during daylight hours, probably this weekend.

[davej]

Oh man I need to see this, like real soon.
My first bike was an 83 cb1000 with a driveshaft and other shared tech to the 650.

I'm sure it is not the same riding experience at all, but I'm not going to let that stop me from a trip down memory lane.

Nice find and a seemingly great buy!

[EclipseTurbno93]

Got some work done tonight. I pulled the carbs off a day or two ago and worked on them indoors at work with a heater which was nice. I need a garage in my life.

From what I could tell the leak was coming from the fuel inlet between carbs 2-3. Getting these pulled apart was not as bad as I thought it would be (my only experience with carbureted motors being one cylinders thus far). Just a lot of small parts to keep track of.

This is the sucker that I think was causing the problem:



So replaced that and reassembled. The old intake tubes are not in the best of shape and did not want to seat on the carbs when I was messing with it on the bike and was missing a clamp. Decided to try to seat them off the bike and hope things line up. Based on the amount of force I had to use to get them to stay, it was the right call.

Finished product!



Hoping to start working on getting it all back on tomorrow.


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[EclipseTurbno93]

Everything’s back together and it still runs so I didn’t mess anything up toooo badly. I think the carbs need to synchronized, but for now it runs well enough. Also did a quick polish and wax. It’s lookin pretty good very happy with it.





The most 80’s thing on this bike:


I still need to do some fluid changes and pick up some tires (these ones are from the early 2000’s, scary). If anyone knows where to get some cheap but decent quality tires I’m all ears, never shopped for a motorcycle before.


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[davej]

Please don't say cheap and motorcycle tires in the same sentence again.

You have about 8cm^2 contact patch between you and getting a skin graph (best case); don't cheap out.

And a helmet & riding gear, also on the do not cheap list

Just busting your balls, I know you're looking for a quality tire for a good value.

[JPolen01]

That gauge cluster is the best thing on this forum right now. It's bitchin

[ScottyB]

That gauge cluster is the best thing on this forum right now. It's bitchin

seriously...that cluster needs its own mustache and pair of aviators