Tag Archives: Honda
Vote on Your Favorite Color for the Honda Bobber
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Here’s your chance: help me decide which color to paint this 1984 Honda VT 700C Bobber! Continue reading
Barn Find: 1978 Honda Hawk – $1000 (Glover Park)
1978 Honda Hawk CB400 for sale. Ran last year, but I let it sit and now it won’t start. It is orange with a windjammer fairing. The seat is original, but it has a split in it. Last year I Continue reading
2013 International Motorcycle Show – Washington, DC
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Oden Motor Shop doesn’t have much of a travel budget, so we don’t get to do the trade show circuit very often. When we do, it usually involves months of planning, loads of money, and lots of headaches. If Sturgis or Daytona are involved, there’s usually a pricey divorce shortly after. You can imagine my excitement when I learned the 2013 Progressive International Motorcycle Show was being held the first week of January in Washington, DC, right across the Potomac river from our shop in Alexandria, VA. All I had to do was find parking in downtown DC. Here is a sample of what I saw there. Continue reading
Pulse Generator Transplant
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After troubleshooting every other electrical component on my 1984 Honda Shadow VT700C, I determined I’m not getting spark because I have a bad pulse generator. Later model bikes use a single pulse, but the ’84 VT700C has two pulse generators, one for each cylinder. This equates to double the possibility of failure and headache cubed when one or the other it actually does fail, since they have to be replaced together as an assembly. Continue reading