Deer and bike are beautiful, you have the best colour option too iimho. My daily is a 2008 silver one.i have the hesitation issue too,very intermittent sometimes runs cleanly cleanly for days. I just replaced the ht caps but issue still there. Going to order new ht leads see if that completely sorts it. Mark (Dublin IRE)
@kevinbufton7118
2 ай бұрын
I have an identical bike to you'here in Wales UK and like you 'i think it is the best bike i have ever ridden and owned! Thanks for the videos,keep them coming! best wishes Kevin
@Jodyrides
2 ай бұрын
tell me about maintenance issues you had with your machine Kevin. I’m just learning about this machine. What can I expect? I get the feeling this machine does not like to go at speeds much above 75 mph/120 kph.. have you had the same experience. It’s not that the machine starts to run poorly, it’s just that I noticed that there is a harmonic extra vibe that begins around that time… I remember the hawk GT 650. It was on sale here in the United States. No fairing, no bags, single-sided swingarm. I had one for a while that I found by accident while working one day, someone heard that I had it, and it’s sold before I ever got a chance to get acquainted with it. When someone offers me a lot more money for a machine than I have in it, I have to let it go. I did get to ride it around the block though, and it felt a little small for me. but I remember there were magazine articles about a guy that was trying to road race, one of those machines, and he kept having crankshaft failures. That was the first time I ever heard the word harmonics when motorcycles were being discussed. That machine somehow had vibrations that were eventually self-destructive to that engine that someone had declared that it was harmonics. In other words, it was just not designed to spin the crankshaft at those speeds.. I don’t intend to take this machine Road racing, but I may want to go 600 miles in one day on the high-speed interstates here.. The highest speed limit here that I know of I 75 mph on the interstate I guess that’s around 120 K. But last summer I went about seven hours away on the interstate to the ocean, and I was just keeping up with the surrounding traffic, and the times we were nearly doing 90 mph/ 145 kph.. my pick up with the V-8 hemi engine was just loafing at that speed, but I was all white knuckles, because the traffic was just too close for those speeds and my comfort level.. know if I was on my MT700 at those just keeping up with the flow speeds of the surrounding traffic, it’s tongue would be hanging out.. do you have the same experience on your machine at those speeds??
@kevinbufton7118
2 ай бұрын
@@Jodyrides Hi Jody,to answer your questions not being mechanically minded i have my bike serviced at the Honda Dealers. Max speed here in the UK on Motorways etc is 70mph and at that speed and probably a little above there is absolutely no issues at all. Iam told that the engine is bomb proof and used extensively by couriers in cities like London and they rack up in excess easily of over 100,000 miles. Wishing you happy and trouble free riding Kevin.
@george-ev1dq
8 күн бұрын
Lovely machine to ride, reliable, bombproof engine, I love the damned things especially the very early 650 variants which had a few vibes that gave the machine that V twin character
@Jodyrides
8 күн бұрын
that makes it unanimous, I agree. It is a complete package… I was that an Indian dealer that sells KTM, royal Enfield, and triumph in early August,(where I was offered a job two separate times now).. and there were people checking out my Deauville.. when I told them it was a 2010, the one guy’s jaw dropped. He thought it was a recent release by Honda… I feel fortunate to have located this machine quite by chance.. I actually told my riding buddy that he should buy this machine when it was available on a local website for sale called craigslist. I told him that that is exactly what he needs, some thing with bags, and a fairing, and a great seat and riding position, some thing with rubber top foot pegs… I told him, if you don’t buy it, I will, and so I did.. after I sorted out the issues it had from sitting all those years, it turned out to be better than I expected to the point, that I sold my Kawasaki Z 400.. I was trying to make my Kawasaki into something that the NT already is. A mid sized sport touring machine.. it’s perfect for me.. it has enough storage capacity without the trunk to carry all the things I wouldn’t dare leave home without. It does not roast me with heat from the engine or radiator, great seat, I still have not.had A full tank of gas run through it at one time to get an accurate miles per gallon check. I do know that it’s in the low 60s miles per gallon.. I just can’t remember exactly how to reset the odometer. It’s different from bike to bike. i’m waiting for the Summer heat to go away, before I start doing maintenance chores like pulling the dry shaft to lube the splines on the driveshaft, and in the Cush drive hub on the rear wheel, lube, the steering head bearings, change the fork oil, Lube, the shock, linkage, lube, the swingarm pivot bearings, I enjoy working on my machines as much as riding them.. even if it’s just making sure, I have all the tools required to do any roadside repairs in the tool kit. I had to make up a tool kit from scratch for this machine because, unfortunately, these machines were not supplied with tool kits from the factory ..That’s the first time i had that not happen.. One other little thing, I tend to behave on this machine .. some machines just are not comfortable until you find their rhythm of operation. My Kawasaki encouraged and complemented a brisk pace. Some bikes have transmissions that just do not like putting at a moderate pace, sort of like the two strokes were., They encouraged you to sprain speed limits, keep on the pipe.. The NT 700 is more like my Moto Guzzis.. they won’t be rushed.. there really is nothing. I would prefer to change on my NT.. Although I just ordered a set of Goldwing foot pegs for it off eBay for $18 free shipping. They are knock offs, but they will be close enough. They’re rubber topped, they are wider front to back… I’ll let you know how they work
@george-ev1dq
8 күн бұрын
@@Jodyrides I beg you not to touch the KTM rubbish, my old 650 Deau has just clocKed 340k miles
@c-31100
2 ай бұрын
Very nice bike so beautiful 😊
@Jodyrides
2 ай бұрын
yes, I agree, Honda made a beautiful machine when they made this one. Funny thing, I never remember seeing one of these on the road since they first became available. I never saw one at a Honda dealership on the showroom floor. I did see one for sale at a local Yamaha shop, it got my attention, I actually took it for a test ride. I had a Moto Guzzi Norge 1200 gt At the time, a gl1800 goldwing,my commuter Honda pacific coast, and a KLR 650 thatI put Street only tires on, and I adapted large military equipment cases to the KLR as saddlebags. So my garage was pretty full at that time.. that was when i spotted that only other NT700 I ever saw in my life for sale.. it was used and I thought the price was actually too low. They were asking $2600 for it at a Yamaha dealer. I think it was around 2018… I am a hopeless motorcycle junkie.. I took that machine for a test ride.. it felt compact, smallish, and not very powerful in comparison to the machine I was riding that day, my Moto Guzzi, Norge.. that test ride just kept gnawing at me. I couldn’t get that machine out of my mind. it was a complete package, it was in excellent condition with very low miles, it checked all the boxes, fairing, bags, center stand ,great seat, I talked myself into it ..So I went back about 10 days later. I had justified in my mind buying it on a practical level. I was actually relieved when I discovered that the machine had already been sold…
@lukezhang3715
2 ай бұрын
Oh deer😄
@Jodyrides
2 ай бұрын
Exactly…..I have had 4 deer collisions, 2 in cars, 2 on motorcycles, 1 at 70 mph on my BMW, K 1200 LT, one at 35mph on my Honda pacific coast. I was lucky I didn’t go down either time… BUT-I do not ride at night anymore if I can help it.. just because of deer..
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