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From: hobbit@bnl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Info needed on Honda XL350
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 01:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 01:49:10 1984
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I own one [a '78] and love it.  It seems a reasonable compromise
across both riding worlds; it is a tad heavy at 320 pounds dry for wild dirt
riding, but it's got *tons* of low-end torque [that good ol' 4-valve
one-lung!] and enough oomph to move you along highways at 65 and still 
have something left over to pass that truck.   The stock sprockets give
you a sommewhat low final ratio which is great  in the woods but brings
the top end down a bit.  It is quite gutsy off the line; the second powerband
comes somewhere around 4K-6K and redlines at ~7500 [at which point you're
doing 80 mph, stock sprockets].

It comes with the usual rubber-stalk directionals, top-mounted choke,
those new funny  tread enduro tires, DID rims, pass. pegs, etc.
You may have to replace the handgrips fairly soon; the factory ones tend to 
rot away and start making your hands black.  Make sure all the mud is
out of that deep spark plug well before you open 'er up, too...

I haven't looked into the new hardware/mods they have put on the beast
since '78, but I believe the bike hasn't changed  a lot.  If you buy it
you'll like it.  I got mine for ~1100 back then - what do they want 
for them now?

_H*