I also had a pc800 in the uk for a few years but sold it due to moving abroad. Today i put a deposit on a 2009 deuville. Its done 24000 miles. I like your style of commentary. I will subscribe. Many thanks.
Thank you, it’s actually you UK riders that convinced me to try the Honda NT 700. I found out on UA-cam that the 650 and 700 are favorites of when I consider true motorcyclists, the riders of the UK. I seen videos of UK riders riding year round & in the rain like it’s nothing. Here in the United States, that’s not very common. Many riders are like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz that would shrivel up if they got wet… I don’t have many miles on my NT700, yet, but the miles I have put on it since November 2023, I I already feel a bond growing between me and this motorcycle. I never even seen one of these motorcycles on the road ever until I bought this one. I was in an Indian motorcycle dealership a couple weeks ago here in 2024, checking out the Indians, KTM’s, triumphs, and royal Enfield at that new dealership, only 20 minutes from my home. They actually offered me a job, the parts man remembers me as a salesman at a shop. we both worked at years ago.. but while I was in the show room , testsitting the seats on the Indians, there were people checking out my deauville in the parking lot. I always park far away, so they had to be interested to walk the distance to where I was parked in the shade. When I went outside to leave, they asked me about the bike and could not believe that it was a 2010… They actually thought it was a new model.. i’m glad you like my one take candid videos without music or big introductions or me..
I have a few variants of this machine , a 2001 carbed 650CC Deauville, a chain drive 650cc Bros and the daddy of them all the old VT500E 6 peed shaft drive from 1983. Great engines with the 500e being the most pleasant to ride with its 6 speed box.
Great bike, I have a 2012, ride it as much as I can in season. Always use the highest octane gas you can, methanol is the curse of theese engines, I live in Denmark and ALWAYS run 100 octane gas in my bikes, the Deauville and my Honda 650 Revere. Ride safe and godspeed to you🤣🏍👍
I recently was forced to fill up my Deauville with E10 because they had nothing else. It made the bike feel awful and stall very easily. Definitely not the right stuff for this bike.
I pretty much have little choice but to run the E 10 gas in my Dodge hemi pick up my wife’s Honda CRV my Yamaha royal star venture my Kawasaki Z 400 and my Honda nt700 owner, as well as my lawnmowers.. they seem to run OK. The owners manuals say it’s OK to run E10.. I always use regular gas. Even in my room racing machines years ago before they started blending in alcohol to the gasoline. I ran regular because my machines did not pre-ignite or detonate on the racetracks even on the hottest days… High test gas does not make more power. I have read.. High test, gas only prevent you from losing power to detonation or preignition. Mostly in those cars made before 1990 like big old Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks with 450 in.³ engines, large bore. Those engines were prone to preignition using regular gas… so, to prevent them from losing power to preignition, they had to put something in the gas to make it not as volatile, not as easy to ignite. They used to put lead in the gas too deaden it.. The reason high test is associated with powerful engines is, you can run a higher compression ratio, which usually means higher power output if you can control the combustion chamber and keep it from detonating or pre-igniting.. I was riding with a BMW a riding buddy of mine that had a 1000 cc air cooled pre-1980s BMW twin. We traveled about 80 miles on the turnpike on a hot day. We got off at one exit and had to go to the tollbooth. He paid, and when he put his bike in gear and open the throttle. That was the very first time hi ever heard a motorcycle detonate. The bike lurched upwards for a second. It sounded like a metallic explosion, like someone struck the crankshaft with a sledgehammer. I’ve never heard anything like it before, or since. Detonation can bend, connecting rods, it can break pistons.
Hi, Thanks for the video, you live in a beautiful area. I have a 2007 with 43k mikes on it and they are beautiful bikes. I've recently had the same hesitation issue and changing the plug caps cured it. It took me a while to work it out as I also had a Meta alarm on it that I had to bypass as the internal battery had died. You have the extra wind deflectors, near the mirrors, that are rare and will help smooth out the air. Enjoy your rides.
this video was my first ride after making the bike fit me and doing some minor maintenance like lubing the clutch and brake lever, pivots and pressure lubing the clutch cable, putting lube in the locks., just giving it a quick service because I could tell the bike had been sitting. at least eight years as it turns out… 29:20 I made additional videos on this bike because the next time after this that I rode the bike, it’s stuck me and I had to abandon the bike 40 miles from home. It turned out that this machine had 2 issues. I thought it only had one problem when it cut out and it turned out to be stabilizer debris in the fuel plugging the gauze, like fuel filter inside the gas tank. you can see in my other videos what I was dealing with inside the tank. I was lucky that I was able to get my whole arm inside the fuel tank through the fuel pump port at the bottom. You gotta watch that sharp edge around that opening. I put electrical tape around it because it was slicing me up pretty good. but I was able to use the scotch bright pad to loosen all of that hardened white debris inside the gas tank. It looked like someone had put a pot on a stove and let the water all cook out of it inside the gas tank. then, after I solved what I thought was the problem with the clogged fuel filter months later after winter because I made this video in November before winter hit here in Pittsburgh, PA USA. It still had that hesitation.so- after doing online research of Honda NT 700 problems. I found articles that said that Honda almost did a worldwide recall on those spark plug caps.. So I replaced the spark plug caps. And now. The machine runs better than I ever expected for a 2010 700. My two Honda pacific coast motorcycles had a claimed 48 hp. This machine has a claimed 71 hp. It feels like it has around 55-60 hp to me.. as Rolls-Royce would say about HP, it has adequate power.. but I have noticed the few times that I have had this machine on the open highway, that the engine feels a little busy at 80 miles an hour, which is as high as I have taken it. I think that’s around 120 K. I don’t like going that fast on the interstate highways. But I took a recent trip with my entire family, kids and grandkids and i rented a big house on the beach seven hours away… I was driving my ram pick up truck, which is like a Cadillac in the comfort department and it has the hemi V-8 engine, 400 hp. but I was in the flow of traffic that at times was going 90 miles an hour for maybe 30 minutes at a time, then I had to dive on the brakes to crawl through construction slow downs ever once in a while. It was a white knuckle drive because I was following my son and his wife and kids in his turbo Acura SUV. I’ll never do that again. When I drove home I said I’ll see you there..I am not gonna try to stay on your back Bumper for seven hours through that traffic at those speeds again. but that trip on my Honda nt700 , the engine I believe it’s tongue would be hanging out doing 120 K for long stretches.. how do you rate the engine at long distance high speed riding? What speeds do you feel The engine is comfortable at covering long distance for hours?? I don’t know because I’ve only just sorted this machine out within the past few hundred miles.. any feedback from someone like yourself that has put the time in the saddle would be very appreciated.. I am grateful to the UK riders videos on UA-cam that turned me on to this machine..
@@andrewvillavicencio8496 Good luck with the search, let us know how you get on and when you find one send in the picture would love to see it.Thanks for the Sub Much appreciated. Cheers
I've got the black version 2010, I've taken the back box off too, on windy days it would really catch it! They are great bikes, mines on 17,000 ish miles. Only downside of riding in the UK is the flaming pot holes!!!
I mentioned in one of my videos riding on route 19, that one day I was riding my first moto guzzi , SP1000 on a sunny day. And I swerved gently to miss a pothole on a long straight. I ended up hitting the cobblestone that came out of the pothole with both wheels at about 60 miles an hour. I bent both wheels so badly that I could see the inner tubes on both wheels. If I had tubeless tires that day, I would’ve been stranded… I know England is not known for hot weather, but have you ever had your bike hesitating for just a second as you roll the power on at low speeds? I have discovered on the Internet that that is very common with this machine, the NT 700. It acts like you turn the key off just for a second… The Internet blogs that I found say that it is because of the spark plug caps. In warm climates, those caps get baked because they are located in the hottest point on the bike outside the engine, and they develop stress cracks from the heat, and those cracks have leaks of electricity that takes the shortest path to ground through the cap to the engine at low speeds. Honda was about to do a worldwide recall on those caps, but somehow they avoided that. I got the new spark plug caps on last Saturday, March 16. Now I have to take off the gas tank, lots of plastic, the air cleaner housing just to get at the spark plugs, and the cabs. while I am in that deep, I’m going to adjust the valves because a tight valve will act like that sometimes also.. have you had any issues with your machine? I didn’t know they made black ones. One coincidence I have had with the only two black motorcycles I ever owned. My 1994 Honda Pacific coast/PC 800 which I can eat it on for 24 years, and my BMW K 1200 LT. They were both all black. The coincidence is, I had deer collisions with each of those bikes. 35 miles an hour with the Pacific coast. On my way to work in the morning. 70 miles an hour with my BMW. I was lucky both times I did not go down either time. because of those two collisions with deer, I do not ride at night anymore if I can help it.
Well done Jody, looks like you've got a good one, although it's actually hard to find a bad one. They're very easy to ride, as you said plenty of torque low down, mild mannered and ideal when the roads are a bit slippery. I'm sure you'll get the fuelling sorted out, mine has carbs so I can't give you any clues, I doubt if it's anything serious though. Cheers, Mick
Lovely looking bike and very clean. One I've never owned, but wish I did have one especially as shaft drives are hard to find these days at the right cost in the UK. I have the NT 1100 . Can't go wrong with a honda. Nice video will check out a few more of yours in due course. Thanks for sharing
funny, you would comment on the bike right now. I’m actually working on it at this minute out in the garage. I finally got the fuel pump back together and in the gas tank ready to go, I hope I didn’t work on it over December or January, because of the weather. but now, it’s time to get off of top dead center and get my machines ready for the season.. i’ve only ridden this bike for may be the equivalent of one tank of gas so far. I have videos on UA-cam, explaining that the bike quit on me, turns out that it was debris in the gas tank. I believe caused by stabilizer at the previous original owner put in the tank, and the bike sat for many years and hardened in the bottom of the gas tank, my riding it for the first time in years, just loosened all that crap and it plugged up the Filter. so I don’t have much seat time on this machine yet. But that short time that I did write it, I was very pleased with the seat, The riding position, the suspension, especially the power. Not that I ring its neck all the time. It’s just that the power is such that I don’t have to ring its neck .. after the reviews I have seen from the UK riders that are on these machines, they are the ones that influenced me into buying this machine. I have never even seen one of these machines on the streets here in Pennsylvania, USA. before this machine left me stranded on the road last November 2 weeks after I bought it due to the plug fuel filter, I was actually considering riding this machine down to Daytona for bike week in the beginning of March here. But since it quit on me. I’m gonna have to have at least 1000 miles of riding within an hour of my home before I will trust it again…
@@Jodyrides for sure once you sort out the minor issues you will have a very nice bike which will serve you well. All the things you mention are probably caused by the bike being layed up for so long.
The new NT1100? I've heard mixed reviews when compared to the NT lineage with the chain drive and change of pannier style but the proof will be in the pudding of how practical and comfortable it is to ride! I'm sure the 400cc extra certainly helps on occasion!
@@crisrose9707 My bike is only about 7 months old and it certainly is up for touring and comfortabe. I do long 250 mile journeys with normally one stop, and it never misses a beat. Panniers I like as they do match quite nicely. But design is something of a personal taste. Thanks for the comment really appreciate it. Cheers
I live in Western Pennsylvania USA. About 25 minutes from the site of the Butler Farm show grounds that the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump happened a few months ago… this video was made about a year ago right after I bought this machine from the original owner. in this video, after I get gas at the gas station, you will hear me commenting on the bike starting to have little hesitations. I was grasping at straws‘s when I guessed that it might be the throttle position sensor… but it was actually a very common issue with these bikes around the world. So common that Honda was about to do a worldwide recall to replace the spark plug caps. They decided not to do the recall, but instead, every time a customer brought their bike into the service department for any little thing, the Honda dealer would just install new spark plug caps without even asking for free.. The symptoms of bad spark plug caps is what I was experiencing. It feels like someone shuts the key off just for a second when you go to pull away from my stop sign, or when you pull up to a stop sign, it might just can’t get out, but it starts right away. That is what is known as voltage leak due to poor, insulating by the plastic spark plug caps. I replaced the originals with the same OEM original spark plug caps made by NGK, and the problem is totally gone. I have replaced does spark plug caps about 1000 miles ago, and it has not had one hiccup since.. but, this motorcycle had another issue that was just about to raise its ugly head on me. this bike conked out and stranded me 40 miles from home the next time I rode this bike after this video. To make a long story short, it ended up being stabilizer that the original owner put in the gas tank because he knew the bike was gonna be sitting for a while. That stuff stayed in the tank as the gasoline evaporated over what I think was about six or seven years. that formed a mass at the bottom of the gas tank that you can actually see in a video I made when I stuck my small camera inside the gas tank, it looks like sand at the bottom well, after putting gas in and riding the bike, the gasoline sloshing around loosened and softened that mass of whatever it is, that they make fuel stabilizer out of, and it started plugging the fuel filter, which is a little larger than a postage stamp at the bottom of the fuel pump inside the gas tank. I have videos showing just how plugged the fuel pump filter and the fuel pump filter wrap/pre-filter was… I removed the fuel pump assembly and I was able to get my whole arm inside the gas tank with a scotch bright pad, and I loosened all that dried chalky material from the inside of the tank. It’s been fine ever since. i’ve done a few other little tweaks of personal fit to this machine, as well as basic maintenance, like changing the oil and filters for the oil and air. I’ve tried different drips, rubber, foam, heated,.. i’ve tried different combinations of bar risers. I have HELI bar risers on there now that raise the bars 5 inches and bring them back. 3 inches.. One thing I noticed about this machine, there was a problem with the machine here in the United States, known as the Honda 650 hawk, GT that had a single sided swinging arm, and no fairing, but it had this style of engine. I had one for a very short time… those hawk GT 650s, when people were trying to road race them, and modify them to spin faster, they had crankshaft failures. And the yes, educated guess I guess, was that this particular style of crankshaft, with this length rods, and this amount of main bearing, and the mass of the rotating parts, was not very happy, spinning very fast, and what the result was was “harmonics” .. that’s what the magazine blamed the vibration these engines produce at very high RPMs on a race track.. in other words, it was just not designed to spin that fast so meanwhile, I replaced the spark, plug caps, eliminating the misfires that were barely noticeable at high rpm. And I wanted to see if that would make the engine run smoother above 75 miles an hour. It didn’t. This engine just does not like to go more than 75 or 80 miles an hour in Top Gear… that does not break my heart because I don’t go over 80 miles an hour ever. I just did it as a test on the interstate… I never ran into that problem with my Honda pacific coast. The Honda pacific coast was 800 cc and it had to spark plugs per cylinder and it had carburetors. It made 48 hp. this machine is fuel, injected, one spark, plug per cylinder, and they say it makes 71 hp. It feels more like about 55 hp to me. As a matter of fact, I think the Honda pacific coast is roomier., and they both feel like they make just about the same horsepower to me. Neither one of them is a remarkably powerful motorcycle with massive torque.. I like the bag system better on the Honda pacific coast also. Far less complex, and it holds more on the PC. I commuted on my Pacific coast for 24 years, and it never let me down ever. The Honda PC also has self adjusting valves… I know my Honda pacific coast with cruise, keeping up with interstate traffic which at times exceeds 80 to 85 miles an hour. But this machine would not do that without protesting with vibration… I bought this bike with 7500 miles on it in November 2023. Here it is October 2024. I can’t believe a year went by already.. I feel as though I still am not familiar with this machine. I like it very much, I would not go back to a Honda pacific coast from this, because the Honda pacific coast is mid-1980s technology, not that this machine is up to the second modern. It is a 2010 after all. but it’ll do ..
tell me about your BMW. I bought the K 1200 LT years ago, because I had never had a BMW, and I knew that they were just about the best touring bike you could buy with the air cooled twins. So I thought that’s what I must have. I just couldn’t get used to it after two years. The front end did not compress from breaking or pressing down, the wheel would come up when you hit bumps, but you could not get the front end to absorb breaking energy. When that weight usually transfers and goes into the fork springs when you hit the brakes on, just about every other design, I am used to that, but on the BMW, that just made that bike, feel very top-heavy, because that energy didn’t go away by dissipating into the springs. It just made the bike feel like I was trying to hold up a wheelbarrow full of water. I actually dropped dead by twice in parking lots at walking speeds. Because of the weight, the front end, the grabby, ABS electric brakes that had no feel.. so, using just the back brakes in slow speeds, the rear brake caliper and pad made a grinding noise that sounded like the rotor was being turned on a lathe.. I talked to the dealer about it, he said he can fix that by going to an aftermarket rotor and pads. $850. The bike rode and shifted, and was wonderful on the highway. tied for the best seat, I ever sat on. BMW certainly knows how to make a seat, shaped like a thin horse saddle. I did not like the long long Rototiller style handlebars. I just felt like I was not part of the machine. The front end felt like it was remotely out front. The windshield was very distorted. For that price it should have been as clear as least, as any Japanese shield. there were a few other minor quirks like the security system arming every time I stopped for gas. And I had to dig out the key fob and take off my gloves and disarm the system. Then there was the dealer that wanted $750 to flush the brake fluid to avoid problems with those electronic servos… I change the brake fluid every year in all my motorcycles, and the clutch fluid.. but there were so many warnings about getting air in the system that I just called the dealer to see how much they would charge just to change the brake fluid. Three month wait, $750 labor plus shop materials plus parts plus disposal fee plus tax… One of those other little, quirks wise, if I ever used the side stand, which I did one bike night gathering in Sharon, Pennsylvania, which draws 5000 on an average warm summer night. I parked near a group of hog riders on the side stand. Then I went looking for my friends, about two hours later when I was going home, I put on my gear and started the bike. It put out clouds of oil, smoke, and it blew in the direction of those hog riders. They were laughing and running around, coughing in the cloud. That was humiliating. my dealer said, don’t worry about it it’s normal.. then there was the final drives failing, I actually saw pictures on the Internet of a final drive housing that had exploded and was in flames. The dealer said that only happens on machines that were overloaded pulling trailers. That’s not true. They were failing.. The final straw was when I was going down a steep slope, paved road in the middle of nowhere, and it was covered with fly ash. I touch the brakes, I had no brakes, nothing front or rear. I had to run into a cyclone fence around a salvage yard to stop because of that ABS taking over because it detected the wheels slipping on the loose surface.. I sold that bike a week after that. I just could not get used to it… i’ve heard from a few sources that the K 1200 LT was not the most loved model bmw ever made.. Could you tell me what it’s like to own the 1600 BMW. Thanks.
@@Jodyrides Powered servo's on early BMW's was OK whilst they worked, but eventually servo failure cost a packet to replace that's why many reverted to brakeing less the servo and ABS function by removing the servo and all it's gubbings, but when it did work the braking was like hitting a brickwall. The suspension with anti dive for me is ok, I like the fact at times when iv'e needed to brake mid turn through over enthusiasm the bike will not stand up and take the rider into the under growth another benefit is more control under panic braking, so for me its 100% benefit when required. The K1600GT is very good after around owning 20 touring type machines since 1973 the big K is maybe the best I have owned including Gold Wing GL1200 and GL1000, my issue now is my age the bike is very big and very heavy so slow speeds need more concentration especially when stopping on poor quality roads, but underway the bike is remarkable 50-55 MPG that is my UK figure and our Gallons are larger than the US Gallon, the creature comforts are well worth having and the balance and poise puts the rider in a good place and yes I have owned a 700 Deauville and see it as the perfect touring machine for the older less physical riders.
I have had five motorcycles with sound systems, three ventures, a BMW, K 1200 LT, and a Goldwing. I never turn the radio on. In fact, when I sold my Goldwing in 2021 to buy my current Venture, I did not know how to turn it on, or to demonstrate that it worked to the new buyer. We had to go on UA-cam to learn, it was in mute, so thank goodness for UA-cam. I wondered why this machine came with speakers. But I can tell you, they will never utter a sound. The engine makes all the Music I want to hear.
Ha, ha🤣 I understand, had a sound system on my ‘92 bmw k 1200 lt. It would fall out every now and then, but man, cruising into Hannover, in Germany, rocking Queen, with people staring at you, priceless🤣🤣
Hi Jody Im here in Canada i have NT700v love it I bought it with 20k last year as well. Not much to find online they did not sell this model In Canada mine was an import from Pennsylvania Just little help with the risers I feel the stock bars little bit foward for me I want to install the risers but not sure if I have to change any of the cables Do you mind telling which bar risers you used and did you have to change the clutch ,brake line. Thanks
Me and my mate just made a similar vlog praising the 600. Even in the uk these bikes are going way under the radar and they are so cheap. Everyone is buying bikes by the hp or pretty plastics. But those things in isolation a great bike do not make.
@@Scarletpimp72 it’s actually the UK riders that open my eyes to this machine. When this bike appeared for sale on a website, I went onto UA-cam to see reviews about the machine… there was nothing but praise, and most of it from the UK..
Looks very similar to the PC800 I bought after talking to you . The efi is nice to have , also a shaft drive , no built in trunk but has storage . How does it compare to the PC power wise with the smaller engine ? How is the comfort and seat height compare ? Thank you Jody
you’re not the guy that bought my Black Honda pacific coast are you? how does this machine compare to a pacific coast? I have had two Pacific Coasts.. A 1990 they got totaled with me sitting on it at a stop sign one morning on my commute to work. I was waiting my turn at a four way intersection. I had one of those “safety devices “called a back off flashing tail light, that will go through a sequence of flashes, while you are sitting, still holding the brake on. I was contacted by someone that was gathering data about those types of accidents. He claimed that that flashing tail light sort of, made that driver that hit me go blank, because his subconscious did not realize why it was flashing, so it kept his eyes locked on my flashing tail light when I was not moving, which the man claimed caused the accident due to “target fixation” he had a brain freeze, trying to figure out what it was he was looking at.. when I was laying on the ground coming, too, the police in the ambulance were already there, and I heard the man that hit me explaining to the police “I saw his tail light flashing, so I thought he was pulling away” so it’s sort of makes sense that he was paying more attention to my tail light than the closing speed.. that was the most profitable paid nine month vacation of my life.. I replaced that totaled Honda pacific coast with my 1994 Honda pacific coast which I commuted on for 24 years. I never had anything fail on that machine, not even a light bulb.. The 94 PC did not shift as well as the 1990. It took more effort to shift up through the years… The muffler on my 1990 PC had holes in the main part of the muffler under the engine. It was rotted from salt, and they are not made of stainless… The guy I bought it from was in med school.. he wrote at 12 months a year here in Pittsburgh pa, so it was exposed to a lot of salt.. My 1994 Pacific Coast that I replaced the totalled one with, I bought it used in 1996 I think. It was a wifes bike with 3200 miles on it since new.. I made some modifications that were necessary to that machine for me. Tall windshield, two springs under the lip near the latch of the trunk, so the trunk would pop up an inch when you pull the release lever. That way I could open the trunk with one hand for those times when I’m carrying things to put in the trunk like my jacket or a helmet or groceries or a case of beer .. they are the kind of springs you would see in a flashlight, the old ones that took the larger D batteries. They lifted that trunk lid, just enough to get it away from the latch when I would pull the lever… I never got more than 5000 miles out of a set of tires ever. That is one thing I did not like about the Pacific coast, you could only buy Metzler‘s or Dunlops. That’s the only two companies that made sets that fit that machine… I put IK 0N shocks on it which are KONI shocks, but the company sold, and was moved to Australia. So they just spelled the name backwards, making the same high-quality shocks. To tell you the truth, I could not feel any difference between the stock shocks, and the better ones… I put a Corbin four piece seat on there. that seat came on my 1990 Pacific coast, and I didn’t dare let it get out of my possession. That is the best seat I ever owned in my life. I have had six or seven other Corbin seats. I have one right now on my Kawasaki Z 400 ,, Big improvement, and the other good one that I had was a Corbin flat seat that I put on my KLR 650.. all the other Corbin seats I had, I did not care for at all. The stock seats were better on those other machines I bought Corbin’s for… so how does the NT 700 compare to the Pacific coast? The Pacific coast has larger bags, but they’re not large enough to hold a full face helmet. But they’re large enough for everything else I ever needed to home… The PC 800 has 48 hp. The NT 700 has 71hp.. you can feel it instantly.. The PC motor is smoother, the NT motor has a pulse, but I would not call it a vibration or a buzz. It is not annoying at all… The PC 800 handles very well. I rode with a group of sport bike riders from Pittsburgh to mid Ohio sports car race track to watch the races quite a few times, but this time I rode the PC 800 with this group of sport bike riders. GSXR 750, BMW, K 1200 RS, triumph, trident, or whatever it was called. It was a three cylinder four stroke triple 1200. 2 ducati’s, and a ninja 600.. and me on my Pacific Coast.. no, I’m gonna brag a little bit. I am a 6 Time Road racing Champion, two time national champion.AMA & WERA.. we got onto Route 39 in Salineville Ohio all the way almost to where mid Ohio is. It’s pretty much two-lane blacktop through cornfields. Motorcycle heaven type roads… One of the Ducati‘s and myself we’re waiting for the rest of the group to catch up constantly. Pacific Coast does not have great acceleration, but once it’s rolling, it has nice neutral, handling, good ground clearance, tight suspension, it stays online., A very solid handler that you can maintain your momentum on.. As for my commute to work every day. In the mornings, I would take it easy on my way to work, but on my way home, on the back roads., that was the best part of my day every day, was the ride to work, and the ride home.. that’s the reason I usually got around 4500 miles out of her front tire. And once the front tire was spent, I always replaced both as a set… it’s really not fair to compare the two bikes, the Pacific coast with the NT. The Pacific coast was probably on the drawing board being designed around 1985. Because the first time they showed up on showroom floors was 1989. The Pacific coast was actually designed by the people that designed the first Honda prelude. You can see the similarities from behind the bike. The tail section looks like the car… The design team was given the orders to design a motorcycle that will not offend people that are prejudice against motorcycles. So they designed a motorcycle that you could not hear the engine, you could not see the engine, and you could not see the wheels… it was very expensive when it first came out. Those two reasons are why it was not a big seller in the United States. They should’ve made a motorcycle that appealed to motorcyclists, not people that hate motorcycles… but after my first ride on one that came into a shop, I worked in a used. I was sold. I sold my Yamaha FJ 1200 to make room in my garage for the Pacific coast… I often referred to it as my Mule.. it’s not very fast, but it’ll haul anything.. of course, the NT feels more modern, looks more modern, and you can feel the additional horses. The NT has a much larger gas tank. Over 5 gallons, the PC is just under 4 gallons I think. .. having only ridden the NT once so far , I can’t really make a fair comparison. I just wanted something with better wind protection, then my Kawasaki Z 400 , and with bags. And the bags on the NTE are larger than they look. In pretty narrow. So it’s my new mule. I don’t know how it’s going to pan out over the years. But I just wanted a new horse… i’m going to be selling my Kawasaki Z 400 next March, I’ll put it up for sale, and I’ll be keeping my Venture and the NT 700 for now.. right now I don’t think I would ride down to Daytona on the NT 700 and leave the Venture sitting at home.. at least right now I don’t think I would. But I do have that large trunk that came with the NT 700, color matched, and it is large enough to hold two full face helmets… we will see. Something to think about over the next 16 weeks until riding season starts here again. I will be putting videos on UA-cam about the progress I will be making on the 700.. but it’s just not fair to compare the 700 to the PC 800 head to head. The PC 800 I have always felt is the most useful motorcycle in the entire universe, and I never had to do one repair on that machine. Not even one over the 24 years I rode that thing to work in the rain, in the cold, the only reason I would not ride is when they start salting the roads in December through March…
Thanks Jody , no I am the guy that was messaging you 3-4 months ago when I was thinking about buying a 1990 PC . You messaged me back . I bought that PC800 and drove it all the way across Canada and back ....COAST to COAST 🙂. The PC truly impresses me every time I ride it . I even drove it on some narly dirt roads two -up with the wife on the back . I wasn't jumping from hill to hill obviously but it handled everything I drove through like a champ . Didn,t even spin a tire , honestly . I found the PC to be easier to handle ( offroad , potholed , washouts very steep inclines and declines ) then my taller adventure bike . Its a Beast lol ! I didn't beat it at all , it just went about its business as usual . Then I took it from Ontario on the Translab loop to the East Coast and Back to Ontario . Then I took it to the Pacific coast of British Columbia and back to Ontario . After 20,000 km ( 13,000 miles ) in 2 months I only had to replace the regulator after driving it home 2000km with a faulty regulator through a very remote area in Northern Canada . I replaced both tires in Calgary on my home from BC . My adventure bike has basically been sitting all summer as I enjoyed riding the PC so much . I will publish those videos to youtube over the winter as I need to learn how to edit the footage . lol I just seen your recent video and though how nice it would be to have a somewhat newer version of the PC . I knew you had a PC before and thought who would be better to ask then you as you have driven both albiet only once or twice so far on the NT . Thanks for getting back to me and sharing your experiences owning a PC as I honestly had the summer of my life riding the PC . It is truly everything you said it would be .@@Jodyrides
@@bsc1463 Wow.. that’s quite a story. I can’t wait to see your videos about your trip across Canada. those Pacific coasts are practically indestructible. I truly feel it is the best all around most useful motorcycle in the entire universe. At least in my experience. And I have ridden many hundreds of motorcycles, and this nt700 is my 109th motorcycle to pass through my garage. I am counting all the motorcycles I have owned.. being a motorcyclist yourself you know,They are like potato chips.. you can’t just have one.. and you really don’t know what a motorcycle is going to be like until you’ve had it for a while. I will buy a bike that I like, and then find out if I like it over the next month or 16 years, or in the case of my Pacific coast, 24 years. my favorite all time engine for a motorcycle was and still is- The Honda CX 500. That engine from the very beginning on the drawing board was designed to be turbo charged. That’s why it does not have cylinders that can be removed. They are cast into the block like a Chevy V8… there were a few stories in motorcyclist magazine a few decades ago about a guy that went around the world two separate times on a CX 500. The second time with his girlfriend on the back. Sometimes transporting that motorcycle in pieces in a two-man sailboat over great distances of water… I’m a little surprised Honda did not make a transverse mounted engine for the NT 700 and the Pacific coast.. because you have to change the power flow direction two times since they are shaft drive. Every time you make that power turn a 90° corner from the output, shaft of the transmission, and then again from the drive shaft, to the final drive at the rear wheel, that is a great efficiency drop. If they had spun the engine, like a Goldwing, or the CX 500, or a BMW Boxer, or a Marusho Or a moto Guzzi.. that would be much more efficient, but I’m not going to criticize or second-guess Honda, the company that happens to know more about the gasoline, internal combustion engine than any other company.. The reason I sold my Pacific Coast time is because I retired, and that was my commuter machine..at the same time-in my 1 car garage..i had my 1958 mga that i have owned since i was 16,my goldwing, my moto guzzi norge , 3 trials bikes, 5 dirtbikes.. I saved the money to build a double decker, two car garage.. I told the contractor to go ahead and build it. He went to my local Township office to get the permits. But President Obama enacted a new law a few years earlier. No one can build anything within 50 feet of wetland or streams or Creeks.. I have a small stream that is usually about 3 inches deep, and 3 feet wide, running through my lower property. It would have been within 20 feet of that ditch with running water. So I could not build a garage that I have saved for for over 20 years. So my garage. was so jammed up with motorcycles and tools and cabinets and shelves, and don’t forget my riding tractor to cut the grass. Something had to go. And I wasn’t working anymore, so the Pacific coast was the one that drew the short straw. That hurt to sell that one… what really hurt is who bought it.. he was in his mid-50s and he was a beginner. I put it on eBay, and he was top bidder.. I thought he would fly in and ride the bike home. But he did not know how to ride… so he showed up with a horse trailer, and there was no place to hook straps inside that trailer. He told me the bike fell over on the way back to Missouri in the trailer. I had it strapped down from 4 directions in the trailer, but there was no place to compress the forks.. sad ending for my old reliable friend.. here are some things/mods. I did to my Pacific coast that I would suggest to anyone. hide your spare key in behind those pull out vents put an Allen wrench under your gas cap lid that removes the passenger seat, grab rails, so you can remove the seat to open the trunk if the cable breaks silicone to flashlight springs that you get out of a standard size D battery flashlight on either side of the latch of the trunk so it will pop up 1 inch when you pull the lever so you can do the trunk lift with one hand instead of holding the lever, while lifting the trunk lid with two hands bend the rear brake rod in the middle about 30°. That will give your brake pedal more feel, and make it less prone to easily locking up the rear wheel when coming to a stop over ripples if you can locate a Corbin seat for the Pacific coast, that is the best seed I have ever had on any motorcycle. It is shaped like a horse saddle, and it has an adjustable lumbar support that you can adjust how far out it comes to support your lower back. I’ve never seen that lumbar support on any other motorcycle seat ever… Nelson rigg Company makes a half cover that fits the Pacific coast perfectly. It is silver to reflect UV. I went through two of those covers over the decades, so my bike would not have to sit in the sun or the rain at work in the parking lot. that half cover does not come all the way down to the ground, it just comes down to the foot pegs, it covers the trunk, the windshield, and the front fender, and it has an elastic bottom. So, it more or less fits like a shower hat….. it’s not the rain so much as it is the sun that destroys .. I have never use soap and water on any of my motorcycles especially my Pacific coast. I only used Honda spray detailer. And the Pacific coast is the easiest motorcycle ever to clean. It’s all big flat surfaces like a car. Just spray that detailer on the bike, including the windshield, but not the seat, use only lemon pledge on the leather or vinyl. and wipe it off. Never never never use paper towels to clean your bike or your windshield especially. Or your face shield. paper towels were scratched the hell out of it , and your sunglasses.. I have never ever used a hose, especially never a pressure washer on any of my motorcycles over the past 3+ decades. I have only used that Honda spray detailer.. that stuff is the number one top selling item in the entire inventory of Honda. They sell more of that spray detailer than anything… I buy it by the case.. I even use it on my Guitars
complaining about being in a position where you need a longer leg, like, pulling out of a parking lot moving a little bit and stopping while your front wheel is in the street and your back wheel is still elevated in the parking lot, you need sometimes a four or 5 inch longer reach to get your foot on the ground if you are unfortunate enough to stop in that situation.. i dont have a short leg that I know of, it is just a figure of speech.. my dirt bikes with 12 inches of travel front and rear would often get me in a situation where I needed longer legs, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. When you have a seat that’s 36 inches tall due to the travel of the off-road, motocross bike suspension. My KLR 650 was a bit tall, so was my suzuki. V Strom, 1000.. my Honda NT700 feels taller, actually, it is taller due to the thicker padding in the great seat.. I have taught elevations, and when you go to put your leg down, it’s like putting your leg into a hole because you can’t reach the ground. That can happen on any motorcycle like, putting a motorcycle into the back of a pick up truck riding up a ramp.. I was not literally talking about a short leg. I was just remarking that I didn’t want to stop in a situation where i could not reach the ground…
hi there....I have just aquired a 2008 Deauville 700 and am having trouble sourcing a new battery for it. i was wondering if you could tell me what battery your bike is fitted with and what the battery dimensions are. thanks in anticipation. Incidently , I live in Edinburgh, Scotland
here’s what I got for battery information for the Honda nt700.. The number of the battery is,YTZ14S that battery fits several different motorcycles that Honda makes here is the item number on eBay of a battery I still might buy because I’m not sure of the age of the battery in my motorcycle that I bought in November 2023 item number -386406777999 or or you could just search my name on eBay Mighty max YTZ14S battery battery dimensions in inches 6“ x 4.38“ x 3.44“, weight is 8.6 pounds.. you have to be careful because there are quite a few of these batteries for sale new on eBay that have different power ratings all the batteries are 12 V batteries but it’s the amp hour capacity and the cold cranking amp‘s power rating that you want to be careful that you get the highest The battery I sent you the information for is rated at 11.2 amp hours (AH) 230 cold cranking amps (CCA) other batteries that I am assuming have less amp hour capacity and less cranking amp hour capacity have a reading of only 9 AH - and only 165, CCA if possible, always buy the battery with the higher cranking amps and amp hours available in the same size battery the battery here I have listed for you is available with free shipping on eBay to me here in Pennsylvania/United States. $38.with free shipping.. this battery is a relatively small battery. The dimensions I sent you are in inches. One little bit of information you may, or may not know, when starting motorcycles were cars with fuel injection, never touch the throttle, just push the start button.. hope this helps. I would be very interested in learning where your location is, roughly speaking I had my NT700 out for about 50 miles yesterday, that was the first time I have taken it out for a ride here in 2024 to test out the new spark plug caps When I bought my machine, it ran on the test drive I took up and down the street when I went to look at the bike, when I got it, home, I took it out for a ride to the local gas station about 5 miles away, and the bike started a little hesitation, it’s in my first video riding this bike that I put on UA-cam back in December I think 2023. I mentioned it in the video that the bike occasionally Missed $ had little hesitations.. I thought all my troubles were just fuel related, because my machine ended up having a clogged fuel filter, which I show in my videos. These machines have two filters. One small filter, a little bigger than a postage stamp that looks like a piece of bandage attached to the bottom of the fuel pump inside the gas tank. That whole area is wrapped with plastic netting that you would see oranges or apples shipped in, at your local grocery store. That appears to keep larger items from getting sucked into the fuel filter. And it actually worked because I have videos showing what I scraped out of that assembly when I had to disassemble the fuel pump. OK that was what I thought was my main problem but in doing research over the winter online, it turns out that Honda almost did a worldwide recall for the spark plug caps. Those are those plastic snap on caps that snap on to the spark plug itself. They develop cracks overtime that you can’t really see. Those cracks develop leakage of the voltage to the spark plug. The spark will go to the closest metal which apparently is the engine, and it’s very noticeable at low RPMs. It feels like you’re running out of gas for just a second. Which is why I thought it was fuel related, when I found that information about the spark plug caps going bad, and that Honda almost recalled all the bikes in the world to replace those caps. I bought a set of caps and installed them. When I took my machine out for a ride yesterday with the new spark, plug caps, The machine performed flawlessly all day, no hesitation while I was in there, changing the spark plug caps, and the spark plugs, i used silicone, dielectric, grease on the entire length of the spark, plug wires, and on the spark plug caps, and I put a little bit of dielectric grease on a Q-tip and coated the inside of the spark plug cap where it attaches to the spark plug. I have been doing that with dielectric grease for decades to keep the spark, plug, wires, waterproof, and to keep them from drying out because they are in about the hottest Area on the motorcycle.. One thing I did notice when I first started the bike yesterday for the first time in months with the new spark plug caps. It started instantly. It never started that quickly before. I anticipated having to crank the bike for a while to fill the fuel lines because I had the gas tank completely empty over the winter, and while I had the gas tank off to change the spark plug caps… but it started immediately with the new spark plug caps. So I had two issues, fuel, bad sparkplug caps, which is common on this particular model of motorcycle. I think I have that in a video on, UA-cam, if not, I will be posting that video of the start up and how quickly it started before I went riding yesterday. I’ll be putting that on my UA-cam channel. hope this information helps. I always appreciate finding useful information on UA-cam when I am chasing a problem. Good luck
I think that any one that finds they have a shorter leg on a bike, needs to watch the videos that people have put out that have for the short leg riders., they can change your mind on how to ride a taller bike.. as like that some trial and adventure bikes are a lot taller.
Only three mistakes by Honda with the Deauville...1/ the panniers shoukd have been removable like the ST1100. 2/ they should have made a naked version. 3/ should have an option for the auto gear box from the DN-01....I still miss mine and remember the touring the full length of France to the Milau Bridge with my wife (and all her shoes).....engine and suspension had no issues and returned 65 mpg fuel economy even though I weigh 260 lbs🏍️💨💨💨🍻👍💂♀️
wow, 65 miles to the gallon.. I think I might finally have gotten a honest 61 miles per gallon. Not sure because I filled the tank with the bike on the side stand. I weigh 220 pounds. I’m 5‘10“, it’s a good fit for me. I just ordered a set of GL 1800 foot pegs for it, because they are wider front to back. We will see how that works. They should be here September 3. I had this stripped down version of this bike with this very similar engine. It was called the hawk GT here in the USA. I spotted it one day sitting in the back of some guy’s garage as I was doing my rounds in his neighborhood working on my regular job. I struck up a conversation and ended up buying it. It was a 650 V twin., water cooled, single-sided, swingarm, no faring at all, 1300 miles. The kid was going away to college in a few weeks, and when I offered to buy it, he jumped at the chance. It was red… I had every intention of riding that bike for at least a year. But at the time I already had three street bikes. My FJ 1200, my Yamaha venture royale, and my commuter Honda pacific coast. I was working part time in a local Yamaha/suzuki shop selling bikes after working on weekends, and a guy came in looking for a bike for his wife used, we didn’t have anything. So I told him about my hawk GT. He brought his wife over To my house a few days later and they liked it. So I let it go with a nice profit without having to do anything to it… that bike was chain drive. I don’t remember exactly what year that machine was but I remember when I took it for a ride. I felt that it was a little cramped. That’s why I was willing to part with it. if the bags were detachable, they would stick out more because they would be on brackets.. I like the way the bags are tucked in tight.. If there is one country, I would like to ride my motorcycle in it is France.. are used to broadcast the daily, Tour de France bicycle race here and I would record the entire five or six hours a day just to look at the scenery, and those fantastic mountain roads.. I sold my Honda pacific coast that I commuted on for 24 years on eBay. The guy was asking me a lot of questions about fit and comfort and gas mileage before he came from St. Louis Missouri to pick it up here in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I asked him what he weighs. He said he weighed 260 at one time but he now weighs 200 pounds. I asked him how did you do that. He said he only did one thing. He stopped drinking coke a cola. That’s the only thing he stopped and within a year he dropped 60 pounds. He said he was addicted to it.
@@Jodyrides definitely do France......nowadays I stay off motorways and eat my way round the country.....lots of little cafes doing great food (and McD if you're fussy).....an adult population who started riding scooters aged 14 tend to be cool about bikers.... the bike cops threatened to go on strike when they got told they'd have wear hiviz over their leathers....(a police force that gets wine with lunch)...guess I've just decided where to go next holiday👍🍟🍷🏍️💨💨💨💨👍p.s. honda naked was the NTV650 shaft drive as opposed to the NT650V (Deauville).....also once rode my Deauville to Deauville for lunch but the G7 was on and I got told in french to "bugger off" somewhere else....looked nice though😸
I have not had the machine out on the interstates Long enough to find out how it is at 80 miles an hour. In this video, after I got gas, you may have noticed I was complaining about hesitations. I was wondering if it was the throttle position sensor. I have several other videos, showing what the problem was .. strange foreign material in the fuel that I suspect was caused by stabilizer that had crystallized or morphed into chalk like materal..when I called the original owner and asked if he had ever put anything extra in the oil or gas. He said no. He never put anything in the oil or the gas, except stabilizer!!!!!! that was it I think. I’ve never seen anything like when I got out of the gas tank in any machine. It has to be the stabilizer that created all of those little particles that ended up completely blocking my fuel filter. I did have the machine up to 75 around may be 80 miles an hour for a couple minutes on the interstate. I could tell that the motor was not as smooth after I got up to 75 or so as it was at all other speeds below that… But overall, I have not even had one tank of gas through this machine yet. So I can’t give a fair evaluation.--yet Winter has closed in, and I’m gonna take my time doing all of the regular maintenance from steering head bearings to driveshaft splines/fork, oil, coolant change, Valve adjustment, inspect the water pump, seal/impeller, which had been an issue on some of these machines, and inspect the spark plug caps that Honda was about to recall,, These cabs, when in hot climates, had a tendency to crack and leak, which made the motorcycle, have symptoms of hesitation that feel like fuel starvation when in fact, it’s misfiring due to cracks in the spark plug caps.. that’s all I could find negative about this machine on the Internet… I will be putting out some videos probably starting in March after the winter weather goes away here in Western Pennsylvania..
I also had a pc800 in the uk for a few years but sold it due to moving abroad. Today i put a deposit on a 2009 deuville. Its done 24000 miles. I like your style of commentary. I will subscribe. Many thanks.
Thank you, it’s actually you UK riders that convinced me to try the Honda NT 700. I found out on UA-cam that the 650 and 700 are favorites of when I consider true motorcyclists, the riders of the UK. I seen videos of UK riders riding year round & in the rain like it’s nothing. Here in the United States, that’s not very common. Many riders are like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz that would shrivel up if they got wet…
I don’t have many miles on my NT700, yet, but the miles I have put on it since November 2023, I I already feel a bond growing between me and this motorcycle.
I never even seen one of these motorcycles on the road ever until I bought this one. I was in an Indian motorcycle dealership a couple weeks ago here in 2024, checking out the Indians, KTM’s, triumphs, and royal Enfield at that new dealership, only 20 minutes from my home. They actually offered me a job, the parts man remembers me as a salesman at a shop. we both worked at years ago..
but while I was in the show room , testsitting the seats on the Indians, there were people checking out my deauville in the parking lot. I always park far away, so they had to be interested to walk the distance to where I was parked in the shade. When I went outside to leave, they asked me about the bike and could not believe that it was a 2010… They actually thought it was a new model..
i’m glad you like my one take candid videos without music or big introductions or me..
I have a few variants of this machine , a 2001 carbed 650CC Deauville, a chain drive 650cc Bros and the daddy of them all the old VT500E 6 peed shaft drive from 1983. Great engines with the 500e being the most pleasant to ride with its 6 speed box.
Great bike, I have a 2012, ride it as much as I can in season. Always use the highest octane gas you can, methanol is the curse of theese engines, I live in Denmark and ALWAYS run 100 octane gas in my bikes, the Deauville and my Honda 650 Revere. Ride safe and godspeed to you🤣🏍👍
I recently was forced to fill up my Deauville with E10 because they had nothing else. It made the bike feel awful and stall very easily. Definitely not the right stuff for this bike.
I pretty much have little choice but to run the E 10 gas in my Dodge hemi pick up my wife’s Honda CRV my Yamaha royal star venture my Kawasaki Z 400 and my Honda nt700 owner, as well as my lawnmowers..
they seem to run OK. The owners manuals say it’s OK to run E10..
I always use regular gas. Even in my room racing machines years ago before they started blending in alcohol to the gasoline. I ran regular because my machines did not pre-ignite or detonate on the racetracks even on the hottest days…
High test gas does not make more power. I have read.. High test, gas only prevent you from losing power to detonation or preignition. Mostly in those cars made before 1990 like big old Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks with 450 in.³ engines, large bore. Those engines were prone to preignition using regular gas… so, to prevent them from losing power to preignition, they had to put something in the gas to make it not as volatile, not as easy to ignite. They used to put lead in the gas too deaden it..
The reason high test is associated with powerful engines is, you can run a higher compression ratio, which usually means higher power output if you can control the combustion chamber and keep it from detonating or pre-igniting..
I was riding with a BMW a riding buddy of mine that had a 1000 cc air cooled pre-1980s BMW twin. We traveled about 80 miles on the turnpike on a hot day. We got off at one exit and had to go to the tollbooth. He paid, and when he put his bike in gear and open the throttle. That was the very first time hi ever heard a motorcycle detonate. The bike lurched upwards for a second. It sounded like a metallic explosion, like someone struck the crankshaft with a sledgehammer. I’ve never heard anything like it before, or since. Detonation can bend, connecting rods, it can break pistons.
Hi, Thanks for the video, you live in a beautiful area. I have a 2007 with 43k mikes on it and they are beautiful bikes. I've recently had the same hesitation issue and changing the plug caps cured it. It took me a while to work it out as I also had a Meta alarm on it that I had to bypass as the internal battery had died. You have the extra wind deflectors, near the mirrors, that are rare and will help smooth out the air. Enjoy your rides.
this video was my first ride after making the bike fit me and doing some minor maintenance like lubing the clutch and brake lever, pivots and pressure lubing the clutch cable, putting lube in the locks., just giving it a quick service because I could tell the bike had been sitting. at least eight years as it turns out… 29:20
I made additional videos on this bike because the next time after this that I rode the bike, it’s stuck me and I had to abandon the bike 40 miles from home. It turned out that this machine had 2 issues. I thought it only had one problem when it cut out and it turned out to be stabilizer debris in the fuel plugging the gauze, like fuel filter inside the gas tank. you can see in my other videos what I was dealing with inside the tank. I was lucky that I was able to get my whole arm inside the fuel tank through the fuel pump port at the bottom. You gotta watch that sharp edge around that opening. I put electrical tape around it because it was slicing me up pretty good. but I was able to use the scotch bright pad to loosen all of that hardened white debris inside the gas tank. It looked like someone had put a pot on a stove and let the water all cook out of it inside the gas tank.
then, after I solved what I thought was the problem with the clogged fuel filter months later after winter because I made this video in November before winter hit here in Pittsburgh, PA USA. It still had that hesitation.so- after doing online research of Honda NT 700 problems. I found articles that said that Honda almost did a worldwide recall on those spark plug caps.. So I replaced the spark plug caps. And now. The machine runs better than I ever expected for a 2010 700.
My two Honda pacific coast motorcycles had a claimed 48 hp. This machine has a claimed 71 hp. It feels like it has around 55-60 hp to me.. as Rolls-Royce would say about HP, it has adequate power.. but I have noticed the few times that I have had this machine on the open highway, that the engine feels a little busy at 80 miles an hour, which is as high as I have taken it. I think that’s around 120 K. I don’t like going that fast on the interstate highways. But I took a recent trip with my entire family, kids and grandkids and i rented a big house on the beach seven hours away… I was driving my ram pick up truck, which is like a Cadillac in the comfort department and it has the hemi V-8 engine, 400 hp. but I was in the flow of traffic that at times was going 90 miles an hour for maybe 30 minutes at a time, then I had to dive on the brakes to crawl through construction slow downs ever once in a while. It was a white knuckle drive because I was following my son and his wife and kids in his turbo Acura SUV. I’ll never do that again. When I drove home I said I’ll see you there..I am not gonna try to stay on your back Bumper for seven hours through that traffic at those speeds again. but that trip on my Honda nt700 , the engine I believe it’s tongue would be hanging out doing 120 K for long stretches.. how do you rate the engine at long distance high speed riding? What speeds do you feel The engine is comfortable at covering long distance for hours?? I don’t know because I’ve only just sorted this machine out within the past few hundred miles.. any feedback from someone like yourself that has put the time in the saddle would be very appreciated..
I am grateful to the UK riders videos on UA-cam that turned me on to this machine..
Thanks for this! I am looking to get one here in Maryland, same color 🙂
You won't go wrong if you get a good clean bike like the one in this video. Happy searching
Sadly he sold it before I could make it down to look at it. I will keep searching!@@kimetogo
@@andrewvillavicencio8496 Good luck with the search, let us know how you get on and when you find one send in the picture would love to see it.Thanks for the Sub Much appreciated. Cheers
I've got the black version 2010, I've taken the back box off too, on windy days it would really catch it! They are great bikes, mines on 17,000 ish miles. Only downside of riding in the UK is the flaming pot holes!!!
I mentioned in one of my videos riding on route 19, that one day I was riding my first moto guzzi , SP1000 on a sunny day. And I swerved gently to miss a pothole on a long straight. I ended up hitting the cobblestone that came out of the pothole with both wheels at about 60 miles an hour. I bent both wheels so badly that I could see the inner tubes on both wheels. If I had tubeless tires that day, I would’ve been stranded…
I know England is not known for hot weather, but have you ever had your bike hesitating for just a second as you roll the power on at low speeds? I have discovered on the Internet that that is very common with this machine, the NT 700. It acts like you turn the key off just for a second…
The Internet blogs that I found say that it is because of the spark plug caps. In warm climates, those caps get baked because they are located in the hottest point on the bike outside the engine, and they develop stress cracks from the heat, and those cracks have leaks of electricity that takes the shortest path to ground through the cap to the engine at low speeds. Honda was about to do a worldwide recall on those caps, but somehow they avoided that.
I got the new spark plug caps on last Saturday, March 16. Now I have to take off the gas tank, lots of plastic, the air cleaner housing just to get at the spark plugs, and the cabs. while I am in that deep, I’m going to adjust the valves because a tight valve will act like that sometimes also..
have you had any issues with your machine? I didn’t know they made black ones.
One coincidence I have had with the only two black motorcycles I ever owned. My 1994 Honda Pacific coast/PC 800 which I can eat it on for 24 years, and my BMW K 1200 LT. They were both all black. The coincidence is, I had deer collisions with each of those bikes. 35 miles an hour with the Pacific coast. On my way to work in the morning. 70 miles an hour with my BMW. I was lucky both times I did not go down either time. because of those two collisions with deer, I do not ride at night anymore if I can help it.
Well done Jody, looks like you've got a good one, although it's actually hard to find a bad one. They're very easy to ride, as you said plenty of torque low down, mild mannered and ideal when the roads are a bit slippery. I'm sure you'll get the fuelling sorted out, mine has carbs so I can't give you any clues, I doubt if it's anything serious though. Cheers, Mick
Lovely looking bike and very clean. One I've never owned, but wish I did have one especially as shaft drives are hard to find these days at the right cost in the UK. I have the NT 1100 . Can't go wrong with a honda. Nice video will check out a few more of yours in due course. Thanks for sharing
funny, you would comment on the bike right now. I’m actually working on it at this minute out in the garage. I finally got the fuel pump back together and in the gas tank ready to go, I hope I didn’t work on it over December or January, because of the weather.
but now, it’s time to get off of top dead center and get my machines ready for the season.. i’ve only ridden this bike for may be the equivalent of one tank of gas so far. I have videos on UA-cam, explaining that the bike quit on me, turns out that it was debris in the gas tank. I believe caused by stabilizer at the previous original owner put in the tank, and the bike sat for many years and hardened in the bottom of the gas tank, my riding it for the first time in years, just loosened all that crap and it plugged up the Filter.
so I don’t have much seat time on this machine yet. But that short time that I did write it, I was very pleased with the seat, The riding position, the suspension, especially the power. Not that I ring its neck all the time. It’s just that the power is such that I don’t have to ring its neck ..
after the reviews I have seen from the UK riders that are on these machines, they are the ones that influenced me into buying this machine. I have never even seen one of these machines on the streets here in Pennsylvania, USA.
before this machine left me stranded on the road last November 2 weeks after I bought it due to the plug fuel filter, I was actually considering riding this machine down to Daytona for bike week in the beginning of March here. But since it quit on me. I’m gonna have to have at least 1000 miles of riding within an hour of my home before I will trust it again…
@@Jodyrides for sure once you sort out the minor issues you will have a very nice bike which will serve you well. All the things you mention are probably caused by the bike being layed up for so long.
The new NT1100? I've heard mixed reviews when compared to the NT lineage with the chain drive and change of pannier style but the proof will be in the pudding of how practical and comfortable it is to ride! I'm sure the 400cc extra certainly helps on occasion!
@@crisrose9707 My bike is only about 7 months old and it certainly is up for touring and comfortabe. I do long 250 mile journeys with normally one stop, and it never misses a beat. Panniers I like as they do match quite nicely. But design is something of a personal taste. Thanks for the comment really appreciate it. Cheers
Where you live, looks beautiful.
I live in Western Pennsylvania USA. About 25 minutes from the site of the Butler Farm show grounds that the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump happened a few months ago…
this video was made about a year ago right after I bought this machine from the original owner.
in this video, after I get gas at the gas station, you will hear me commenting on the bike starting to have little hesitations. I was grasping at straws‘s when I guessed that it might be the throttle position sensor… but it was actually a very common issue with these bikes around the world. So common that Honda was about to do a worldwide recall to replace the spark plug caps. They decided not to do the recall, but instead, every time a customer brought their bike into the service department for any little thing, the Honda dealer would just install new spark plug caps without even asking for free.. The symptoms of bad spark plug caps is what I was experiencing. It feels like someone shuts the key off just for a second when you go to pull away from my stop sign, or when you pull up to a stop sign, it might just can’t get out, but it starts right away. That is what is known as voltage leak due to poor, insulating by the plastic spark plug caps.
I replaced the originals with the same OEM original spark plug caps made by NGK, and the problem is totally gone. I have replaced does spark plug caps about 1000 miles ago, and it has not had one hiccup since..
but, this motorcycle had another issue that was just about to raise its ugly head on me.
this bike conked out and stranded me 40 miles from home the next time I rode this bike after this video. To make a long story short, it ended up being stabilizer that the original owner put in the gas tank because he knew the bike was gonna be sitting for a while. That stuff stayed in the tank as the gasoline evaporated over what I think was about six or seven years.
that formed a mass at the bottom of the gas tank that you can actually see in a video I made when I stuck my small camera inside the gas tank, it looks like sand at the bottom
well, after putting gas in and riding the bike, the gasoline sloshing around loosened and softened that mass of whatever it is, that they make fuel stabilizer out of, and it started plugging the fuel filter, which is a little larger than a postage stamp at the bottom of the fuel pump inside the gas tank. I have videos showing just how plugged the fuel pump filter and the fuel pump filter wrap/pre-filter was…
I removed the fuel pump assembly and I was able to get my whole arm inside the gas tank with a scotch bright pad, and I loosened all that dried chalky material from the inside of the tank. It’s been fine ever since.
i’ve done a few other little tweaks of personal fit to this machine, as well as basic maintenance, like changing the oil and filters for the oil and air. I’ve tried different drips, rubber, foam, heated,.. i’ve tried different combinations of bar risers. I have HELI bar risers on there now that raise the bars 5 inches and bring them back. 3 inches..
One thing I noticed about this machine, there was a problem with the machine here in the United States, known as the Honda 650 hawk, GT that had a single sided swinging arm, and no fairing, but it had this style of engine. I had one for a very short time…
those hawk GT 650s, when people were trying to road race them, and modify them to spin faster, they had crankshaft failures. And the yes, educated guess I guess, was that this particular style of crankshaft, with this length rods, and this amount of main bearing, and the mass of the rotating parts, was not very happy, spinning very fast, and what the result was was “harmonics” .. that’s what the magazine blamed the vibration these engines produce at very high RPMs on a race track.. in other words, it was just not designed to spin that fast
so meanwhile, I replaced the spark, plug caps, eliminating the misfires that were barely noticeable at high rpm. And I wanted to see if that would make the engine run smoother above 75 miles an hour. It didn’t. This engine just does not like to go more than 75 or 80 miles an hour in Top Gear…
that does not break my heart because I don’t go over 80 miles an hour ever. I just did it as a test on the interstate…
I never ran into that problem with my Honda pacific coast. The Honda pacific coast was 800 cc and it had to spark plugs per cylinder and it had carburetors. It made 48 hp.
this machine is fuel, injected, one spark, plug per cylinder, and they say it makes 71 hp. It feels more like about 55 hp to me. As a matter of fact, I think the Honda pacific coast is roomier., and they both feel like they make just about the same horsepower to me. Neither one of them is a remarkably powerful motorcycle with massive torque.. I like the bag system better on the Honda pacific coast also. Far less complex, and it holds more on the PC. I commuted on my Pacific coast for 24 years, and it never let me down ever. The Honda PC also has self adjusting valves…
I know my Honda pacific coast with cruise, keeping up with interstate traffic which at times exceeds 80 to 85 miles an hour. But this machine would not do that without protesting with vibration…
I bought this bike with 7500 miles on it in November 2023. Here it is October 2024. I can’t believe a year went by already.. I feel as though I still am not familiar with this machine.
I like it very much, I would not go back to a Honda pacific coast from this, because the Honda pacific coast is mid-1980s technology, not that this machine is up to the second modern. It is a 2010 after all.
but it’ll do ..
I currently ride a K1600GT and I wish I still had the Deauville.
tell me about your BMW. I bought the K 1200 LT years ago, because I had never had a BMW, and I knew that they were just about the best touring bike you could buy with the air cooled twins. So I thought that’s what I must have.
I just couldn’t get used to it after two years. The front end did not compress from breaking or pressing down, the wheel would come up when you hit bumps, but you could not get the front end to absorb breaking energy. When that weight usually transfers and goes into the fork springs when you hit the brakes on, just about every other design, I am used to that, but on the BMW, that just made that bike, feel very top-heavy, because that energy didn’t go away by dissipating into the springs. It just made the bike feel like I was trying to hold up a wheelbarrow full of water. I actually dropped dead by twice in parking lots at walking speeds. Because of the weight, the front end, the grabby, ABS electric brakes that had no feel.. so, using just the back brakes in slow speeds, the rear brake caliper and pad made a grinding noise that sounded like the rotor was being turned on a lathe.. I talked to the dealer about it, he said he can fix that by going to an aftermarket rotor and pads. $850.
The bike rode and shifted, and was wonderful on the highway. tied for the best seat, I ever sat on. BMW certainly knows how to make a seat, shaped like a thin horse saddle. I did not like the long long Rototiller style handlebars. I just felt like I was not part of the machine. The front end felt like it was remotely out front. The windshield was very distorted. For that price it should have been as clear as least, as any Japanese shield.
there were a few other minor quirks like the security system arming every time I stopped for gas. And I had to dig out the key fob and take off my gloves and disarm the system. Then there was the dealer that wanted $750 to flush the brake fluid to avoid problems with those electronic servos… I change the brake fluid every year in all my motorcycles, and the clutch fluid.. but there were so many warnings about getting air in the system that I just called the dealer to see how much they would charge just to change the brake fluid. Three month wait, $750 labor plus shop materials plus parts plus disposal fee plus tax…
One of those other little, quirks wise, if I ever used the side stand, which I did one bike night gathering in Sharon, Pennsylvania, which draws 5000 on an average warm summer night. I parked near a group of hog riders on the side stand. Then I went looking for my friends, about two hours later when I was going home, I put on my gear and started the bike. It put out clouds of oil, smoke, and it blew in the direction of those hog riders. They were laughing and running around, coughing in the cloud. That was humiliating. my dealer said, don’t worry about it it’s normal.. then there was the final drives failing, I actually saw pictures on the Internet of a final drive housing that had exploded and was in flames. The dealer said that only happens on machines that were overloaded pulling trailers. That’s not true. They were failing..
The final straw was when I was going down a steep slope, paved road in the middle of nowhere, and it was covered with fly ash. I touch the brakes, I had no brakes, nothing front or rear. I had to run into a cyclone fence around a salvage yard to stop because of that ABS taking over because it detected the wheels slipping on the loose surface.. I sold that bike a week after that. I just could not get used to it… i’ve heard from a few sources that the K 1200 LT was not the most loved model bmw ever made..
Could you tell me what it’s like to own the 1600 BMW. Thanks.
@@Jodyrides Powered servo's on early BMW's was OK whilst they worked, but eventually servo failure cost a packet to replace that's why many reverted to brakeing less the servo and ABS function by removing the servo and all it's gubbings, but when it did work the braking was like hitting a brickwall. The suspension with anti dive for me is ok, I like the fact at times when iv'e needed to brake mid turn through over enthusiasm the bike will not stand up and take the rider into the under growth another benefit is more control under panic braking, so for me its 100% benefit when required.
The K1600GT is very good after around owning 20 touring type machines since 1973 the big K is maybe the best I have owned including Gold Wing GL1200 and GL1000, my issue now is my age the bike is very big and very heavy so slow speeds need more concentration especially when stopping on poor quality roads, but underway the bike is remarkable 50-55 MPG that is my UK figure and our Gallons are larger than the US Gallon, the creature comforts are well worth having and the balance and poise puts the rider in a good place and yes I have owned a 700 Deauville and see it as the perfect touring machine for the older less physical riders.
Whoa’ looks like you even have the original speakers in the fairing, rare feature😳 might look into if they still work🤔😃
I have had five motorcycles with sound systems, three ventures, a BMW, K 1200 LT, and a Goldwing. I never turn the radio on. In fact, when I sold my Goldwing in 2021 to buy my current Venture, I did not know how to turn it on, or to demonstrate that it worked to the new buyer. We had to go on UA-cam to learn, it was in mute, so thank goodness for UA-cam.
I wondered why this machine came with speakers. But I can tell you, they will never utter a sound. The engine makes all the Music I want to hear.
Ha, ha🤣 I understand, had a sound system on my ‘92 bmw k 1200 lt. It would fall out every now and then, but man, cruising into Hannover, in Germany, rocking Queen, with people staring at you, priceless🤣🤣
Hi Jody
Im here in Canada i have NT700v love it I bought it with 20k last year as well.
Not much to find online they did not sell this model In Canada mine was an import from Pennsylvania Just little help
with the risers I feel the stock bars little bit foward for me
I want to install the risers but not sure if I have to change any of the cables
Do you mind telling which bar risers you used and did you have to change the clutch ,brake line.
Thanks
Me and my mate just made a similar vlog praising the 600. Even in the uk these bikes are going way under the radar and they are so cheap. Everyone is buying bikes by the hp or pretty plastics. But those things in isolation a great bike do not make.
@@Scarletpimp72 it’s actually the UK riders that open my eyes to this machine. When this bike appeared for sale on a website, I went onto UA-cam to see reviews about the machine… there was nothing but praise, and most of it from the UK..
Looks very similar to the PC800 I bought after talking to you . The efi is nice to have , also a shaft drive , no built in trunk but has storage . How does it compare to the PC power wise with the smaller engine ? How is the comfort and seat height compare ? Thank you Jody
you’re not the guy that bought my Black Honda pacific coast are you?
how does this machine compare to a pacific coast? I have had two Pacific Coasts.. A 1990 they got totaled with me sitting on it at a stop sign one morning on my commute to work. I was waiting my turn at a four way intersection. I had one of those “safety devices “called a back off flashing tail light, that will go through a sequence of flashes, while you are sitting, still holding the brake on. I was contacted by someone that was gathering data about those types of accidents. He claimed that that flashing tail light sort of, made that driver that hit me go blank, because his subconscious did not realize why it was flashing, so it kept his eyes locked on my flashing tail light when I was not moving, which the man claimed caused the accident due to “target fixation” he had a brain freeze, trying to figure out what it was he was looking at..
when I was laying on the ground coming, too, the police in the ambulance were already there, and I heard the man that hit me explaining to the police “I saw his tail light flashing, so I thought he was pulling away”
so it’s sort of makes sense that he was paying more attention to my tail light than the closing speed..
that was the most profitable paid nine month vacation of my life..
I replaced that totaled Honda pacific coast with my 1994 Honda pacific coast which I commuted on for 24 years. I never had anything fail on that machine, not even a light bulb..
The 94 PC did not shift as well as the 1990. It took more effort to shift up through the years… The muffler on my 1990 PC had holes in the main part of the muffler under the engine. It was rotted from salt, and they are not made of stainless… The guy I bought it from was in med school.. he wrote at 12 months a year here in Pittsburgh pa, so it was exposed to a lot of salt..
My 1994 Pacific Coast that I replaced the totalled one with, I bought it used in 1996 I think. It was a wifes bike with 3200 miles on it since new..
I made some modifications that were necessary to that machine for me. Tall windshield, two springs under the lip near the latch of the trunk, so the trunk would pop up an inch when you pull the release lever. That way I could open the trunk with one hand for those times when I’m carrying things to put in the trunk like my jacket or a helmet or groceries or a case of beer .. they are the kind of springs you would see in a flashlight, the old ones that took the larger D batteries. They lifted that trunk lid, just enough to get it away from the latch when I would pull the lever…
I never got more than 5000 miles out of a set of tires ever. That is one thing I did not like about the Pacific coast, you could only buy Metzler‘s or Dunlops. That’s the only two companies that made sets that fit that machine… I put IK 0N shocks on it which are KONI shocks, but the company sold, and was moved to Australia. So they just spelled the name backwards, making the same high-quality shocks. To tell you the truth, I could not feel any difference between the stock shocks, and the better ones…
I put a Corbin four piece seat on there. that seat came on my 1990 Pacific coast, and I didn’t dare let it get out of my possession. That is the best seat I ever owned in my life. I have had six or seven other Corbin seats. I have one right now on my Kawasaki Z 400 ,, Big improvement, and the other good one that I had was a Corbin flat seat that I put on my KLR 650.. all the other Corbin seats I had, I did not care for at all. The stock seats were better on those other machines I bought Corbin’s for…
so how does the NT 700 compare to the Pacific coast?
The Pacific coast has larger bags, but they’re not large enough to hold a full face helmet. But they’re large enough for everything else I ever needed to home…
The PC 800 has 48 hp. The NT 700 has 71hp.. you can feel it instantly..
The PC motor is smoother, the NT motor has a pulse, but I would not call it a vibration or a buzz. It is not annoying at all…
The PC 800 handles very well. I rode with a group of sport bike riders from Pittsburgh to mid Ohio sports car race track to watch the races quite a few times, but this time I rode the PC 800 with this group of sport bike riders. GSXR 750, BMW, K 1200 RS, triumph, trident, or whatever it was called. It was a three cylinder four stroke triple 1200. 2 ducati’s, and a ninja 600.. and me on my Pacific Coast..
no, I’m gonna brag a little bit. I am a 6 Time Road racing Champion, two time national champion.AMA & WERA.. we got onto Route 39 in Salineville Ohio all the way almost to where mid Ohio is. It’s pretty much two-lane blacktop through cornfields. Motorcycle heaven type roads…
One of the Ducati‘s and myself we’re waiting for the rest of the group to catch up constantly. Pacific Coast does not have great acceleration, but once it’s rolling, it has nice neutral, handling, good ground clearance, tight suspension, it stays online., A very solid handler that you can maintain your momentum on..
As for my commute to work every day. In the mornings, I would take it easy on my way to work, but on my way home, on the back roads., that was the best part of my day every day, was the ride to work, and the ride home.. that’s the reason I usually got around 4500 miles out of her front tire. And once the front tire was spent, I always replaced both as a set…
it’s really not fair to compare the two bikes, the Pacific coast with the NT. The Pacific coast was probably on the drawing board being designed around 1985. Because the first time they showed up on showroom floors was 1989.
The Pacific coast was actually designed by the people that designed the first Honda prelude. You can see the similarities from behind the bike. The tail section looks like the car… The design team was given the orders to design a motorcycle that will not offend people that are prejudice against motorcycles. So they designed a motorcycle that you could not hear the engine, you could not see the engine, and you could not see the wheels… it was very expensive when it first came out. Those two reasons are why it was not a big seller in the United States. They should’ve made a motorcycle that appealed to motorcyclists, not people that hate motorcycles…
but after my first ride on one that came into a shop, I worked in a used. I was sold. I sold my Yamaha FJ 1200 to make room in my garage for the Pacific coast… I often referred to it as my Mule.. it’s not very fast, but it’ll haul anything..
of course, the NT feels more modern, looks more modern, and you can feel the additional horses. The NT has a much larger gas tank. Over 5 gallons, the PC is just under 4 gallons I think. .. having only ridden the NT once so far , I can’t really make a fair comparison. I just wanted something with better wind protection, then my Kawasaki Z 400 , and with bags. And the bags on the NTE are larger than they look. In pretty narrow. So it’s my new mule. I don’t know how it’s going to pan out over the years. But I just wanted a new horse… i’m going to be selling my Kawasaki Z 400 next March, I’ll put it up for sale, and I’ll be keeping my Venture and the NT 700 for now.. right now I don’t think I would ride down to Daytona on the NT 700 and leave the Venture sitting at home.. at least right now I don’t think I would. But I do have that large trunk that came with the NT 700, color matched, and it is large enough to hold two full face helmets… we will see. Something to think about over the next 16 weeks until riding season starts here again.
I will be putting videos on UA-cam about the progress I will be making on the 700..
but it’s just not fair to compare the 700 to the PC 800 head to head. The PC 800 I have always felt is the most useful motorcycle in the entire universe, and I never had to do one repair on that machine. Not even one over the 24 years I rode that thing to work in the rain, in the cold, the only reason I would not ride is when they start salting the roads in December through March…
@@Jodyrides how many miles did you put on your PC 800?
Thanks Jody , no I am the guy that was messaging you 3-4 months ago when I was thinking about buying a 1990 PC . You messaged me back . I bought that PC800 and drove it all the way across Canada and back ....COAST to COAST 🙂. The PC truly impresses me every time I ride it . I even drove it on some narly dirt roads two -up with the wife on the back . I wasn't jumping from hill to hill obviously but it handled everything I drove through like a champ . Didn,t even spin a tire , honestly . I found the PC to be easier to handle ( offroad , potholed , washouts very steep inclines and declines ) then my taller adventure bike . Its a Beast lol ! I didn't beat it at all , it just went about its business as usual . Then I took it from Ontario on the Translab loop to the East Coast and Back to Ontario . Then I took it to the Pacific coast of British Columbia and back to Ontario . After 20,000 km ( 13,000 miles ) in 2 months I only had to replace the regulator after driving it home 2000km with a faulty regulator through a very remote area in Northern Canada . I replaced both tires in Calgary on my home from BC . My adventure bike has basically been sitting all summer as I enjoyed riding the PC so much . I will publish those videos to youtube over the winter as I need to learn how to edit the footage . lol
I just seen your recent video and though how nice it would be to have a somewhat newer version of the PC . I knew you had a PC before and thought who would be better to ask then you as you have driven both albiet only once or twice so far on the NT .
Thanks for getting back to me and sharing your experiences owning a PC as I honestly had the summer of my life riding the PC . It is truly everything you said it would be .@@Jodyrides
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Wow.. that’s quite a story. I can’t wait to see your videos about your trip across Canada.
those Pacific coasts are practically indestructible. I truly feel it is the best all around most useful motorcycle in the entire universe. At least in my experience. And I have ridden many hundreds of motorcycles, and this nt700 is my 109th motorcycle to pass through my garage. I am counting all the motorcycles I have owned.. being a motorcyclist yourself you know,They are like potato chips.. you can’t just have one.. and you really don’t know what a motorcycle is going to be like until you’ve had it for a while. I will buy a bike that I like, and then find out if I like it over the next month or 16 years, or in the case of my Pacific coast, 24 years.
my favorite all time engine for a motorcycle was and still is- The Honda CX 500. That engine from the very beginning on the drawing board was designed to be turbo charged. That’s why it does not have cylinders that can be removed. They are cast into the block like a Chevy V8…
there were a few stories in motorcyclist magazine a few decades ago about a guy that went around the world two separate times on a CX 500. The second time with his girlfriend on the back. Sometimes transporting that motorcycle in pieces in a two-man sailboat over great distances of water…
I’m a little surprised Honda did not make a transverse mounted engine for the NT 700 and the Pacific coast.. because you have to change the power flow direction two times since they are shaft drive. Every time you make that power turn a 90° corner from the output, shaft of the transmission, and then again from the drive shaft, to the final drive at the rear wheel, that is a great efficiency drop. If they had spun the engine, like a Goldwing, or the CX 500, or a BMW Boxer, or a Marusho Or a moto Guzzi.. that would be much more efficient, but I’m not going to criticize or second-guess Honda, the company that happens to know more about the gasoline, internal combustion engine than any other company..
The reason I sold my Pacific Coast time is because I retired, and that was my commuter machine..at the same time-in my 1 car garage..i had my 1958 mga that i have owned since i was 16,my goldwing, my moto guzzi norge , 3 trials bikes, 5 dirtbikes..
I saved the money to build a double decker, two car garage.. I told the contractor to go ahead and build it. He went to my local Township office to get the permits. But President Obama enacted a new law a few years earlier. No one can build anything within 50 feet of wetland or streams or Creeks.. I have a small stream that is usually about 3 inches deep, and 3 feet wide, running through my lower property. It would have been within 20 feet of that ditch with running water. So I could not build a garage that I have saved for for over 20 years. So my garage. was so jammed up with motorcycles and tools and cabinets and shelves, and don’t forget my riding tractor to cut the grass. Something had to go. And I wasn’t working anymore, so the Pacific coast was the one that drew the short straw. That hurt to sell that one… what really hurt is who bought it.. he was in his mid-50s and he was a beginner. I put it on eBay, and he was top bidder.. I thought he would fly in and ride the bike home. But he did not know how to ride… so he showed up with a horse trailer, and there was no place to hook straps inside that trailer. He told me the bike fell over on the way back to Missouri in the trailer. I had it strapped down from 4 directions in the trailer, but there was no place to compress the forks.. sad ending for my old reliable friend..
here are some things/mods. I did to my Pacific coast that I would suggest to anyone.
hide your spare key in behind those pull out vents
put an Allen wrench under your gas cap lid that removes the passenger seat, grab rails, so you can remove the seat to open the trunk if the cable breaks
silicone to flashlight springs that you get out of a standard size D battery flashlight on either side of the latch of the trunk so it will pop up 1 inch when you pull the lever so you can do the trunk lift with one hand instead of holding the lever, while lifting the trunk lid with two hands
bend the rear brake rod in the middle about 30°. That will give your brake pedal more feel, and make it less prone to easily locking up the rear wheel when coming to a stop over ripples
if you can locate a Corbin seat for the Pacific coast, that is the best seed I have ever had on any motorcycle. It is shaped like a horse saddle, and it has an adjustable lumbar support that you can adjust how far out it comes to support your lower back. I’ve never seen that lumbar support on any other motorcycle seat ever…
Nelson rigg Company makes a half cover that fits the Pacific coast perfectly. It is silver to reflect UV. I went through two of those covers over the decades, so my bike would not have to sit in the sun or the rain at work in the parking lot. that half cover does not come all the way down to the ground, it just comes down to the foot pegs, it covers the trunk, the windshield, and the front fender, and it has an elastic bottom. So, it more or less fits like a shower hat….. it’s not the rain so much as it is the sun that destroys ..
I have never use soap and water on any of my motorcycles especially my Pacific coast. I only used Honda spray detailer. And the Pacific coast is the easiest motorcycle ever to clean. It’s all big flat surfaces like a car. Just spray that detailer on the bike, including the windshield, but not the seat, use only lemon pledge on the leather or vinyl. and wipe it off. Never never never use paper towels to clean your bike or your windshield especially. Or your face shield. paper towels were scratched the hell out of it , and your sunglasses..
I have never ever used a hose, especially never a pressure washer on any of my motorcycles over the past 3+ decades. I have only used that Honda spray detailer.. that stuff is the number one top selling item in the entire inventory of Honda. They sell more of that spray detailer than anything… I buy it by the case.. I even use it on my Guitars
complaining about being in a position where you need a longer leg, like, pulling out of a parking lot moving a little bit and stopping while your front wheel is in the street and your back wheel is still elevated in the parking lot, you need sometimes a four or 5 inch longer reach to get your foot on the ground if you are unfortunate enough to stop in that situation..
i dont have a short leg that I know of, it is just a figure of speech..
my dirt bikes with 12 inches of travel front and rear would often get me in a situation where I needed longer legs, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. When you have a seat that’s 36 inches tall due to the travel of the off-road, motocross bike suspension. My KLR 650 was a bit tall, so was my suzuki. V Strom, 1000..
my Honda NT700 feels taller, actually, it is taller due to the thicker padding in the great seat..
I have taught elevations, and when you go to put your leg down, it’s like putting your leg into a hole because you can’t reach the ground. That can happen on any motorcycle like, putting a motorcycle into the back of a pick up truck riding up a ramp..
I was not literally talking about a short leg. I was just remarking that I didn’t want to stop in a situation where i could not reach the ground…
hi there....I have just aquired a 2008 Deauville 700 and am having trouble sourcing a new battery for it. i was wondering if you could tell me what battery your bike is fitted with and what the battery dimensions are. thanks in anticipation. Incidently , I live in Edinburgh, Scotland
here’s what I got for battery information for the Honda nt700..
The number of the battery is,YTZ14S
that battery fits several different motorcycles that Honda makes
here is the item number on eBay of a battery I still might buy because I’m not sure of the age of the battery in my motorcycle that I bought in November 2023
item number -386406777999
or or you could just search my name on eBay
Mighty max YTZ14S battery
battery dimensions in inches
6“ x 4.38“ x 3.44“, weight is 8.6 pounds..
you have to be careful because there are quite a few of these batteries for sale new on eBay that have different power ratings
all the batteries are 12 V batteries
but it’s the amp hour capacity and the cold cranking amp‘s power rating that you want to be careful that you get the highest
The battery I sent you the information for is rated at 11.2 amp hours (AH)
230 cold cranking amps (CCA)
other batteries that I am assuming have less amp hour capacity and less cranking amp hour capacity have a reading of only 9 AH - and only 165, CCA
if possible, always buy the battery with the higher cranking amps and amp hours available in the same size battery
the battery here I have listed for you is available with free shipping on eBay to me here in Pennsylvania/United States. $38.with free shipping..
this battery is a relatively small battery. The dimensions I sent you are in inches.
One little bit of information you may, or may not know, when starting motorcycles were cars with fuel injection, never touch the throttle, just push the start button..
hope this helps.
I would be very interested in learning where your location is, roughly speaking
I had my NT700 out for about 50 miles yesterday, that was the first time I have taken it out for a ride here in 2024 to test out the new spark plug caps
When I bought my machine, it ran on the test drive I took up and down the street when I went to look at the bike, when I got it, home, I took it out for a ride to the local gas station about 5 miles away, and the bike started a little hesitation, it’s in my first video riding this bike that I put on UA-cam back in December I think 2023. I mentioned it in the video that the bike occasionally Missed $ had little hesitations..
I thought all my troubles were just fuel related, because my machine ended up having a clogged fuel filter, which I show in my videos. These machines have two filters. One small filter, a little bigger than a postage stamp that looks like a piece of bandage attached to the bottom of the fuel pump inside the gas tank. That whole area is wrapped with plastic netting that you would see oranges or apples shipped in, at your local grocery store. That appears to keep larger items from getting sucked into the fuel filter. And it actually worked because I have videos showing what I scraped out of that assembly when I had to disassemble the fuel pump.
OK that was what I thought was my main problem
but in doing research over the winter online, it turns out that Honda almost did a worldwide recall for the spark plug caps. Those are those plastic snap on caps that snap on to the spark plug itself. They develop cracks overtime that you can’t really see. Those cracks develop leakage of the voltage to the spark plug. The spark will go to the closest metal which apparently is the engine, and it’s very noticeable at low RPMs. It feels like you’re running out of gas for just a second. Which is why I thought it was fuel related, when I found that information about the spark plug caps going bad, and that Honda almost recalled all the bikes in the world to replace those caps. I bought a set of caps and installed them. When I took my machine out for a ride yesterday with the new spark, plug caps, The machine performed flawlessly all day, no hesitation
while I was in there, changing the spark plug caps, and the spark plugs, i used silicone, dielectric, grease on the entire length of the spark, plug wires, and on the spark plug caps, and I put a little bit of dielectric grease on a Q-tip and coated the inside of the spark plug cap where it attaches to the spark plug. I have been doing that with dielectric grease for decades to keep the spark, plug, wires, waterproof, and to keep them from drying out because they are in about the hottest Area on the motorcycle..
One thing I did notice when I first started the bike yesterday for the first time in months with the new spark plug caps. It started instantly. It never started that quickly before. I anticipated having to crank the bike for a while to fill the fuel lines because I had the gas tank completely empty over the winter, and while I had the gas tank off to change the spark plug caps… but it started immediately with the new spark plug caps. So I had two issues, fuel, bad sparkplug caps, which is common on this particular model of motorcycle.
I think I have that in a video on, UA-cam, if not, I will be posting that video of the start up and how quickly it started before I went riding yesterday. I’ll be putting that on my UA-cam channel.
hope this information helps. I always appreciate finding useful information on UA-cam when I am chasing a problem.
Good luck
I think that any one that finds they have a shorter leg on a bike, needs to watch the videos that people have put out that have for the short leg riders., they can change your mind on how to ride a taller bike.. as like that some trial and adventure bikes are a lot taller.
i have a 32" inseam im good.. it is just that i was on uneven ground.. im sure we all have been in that situation
Only three mistakes by Honda with the Deauville...1/ the panniers shoukd have been removable like the ST1100. 2/ they should have made a naked version. 3/ should have an option for the auto gear box from the DN-01....I still miss mine and remember the touring the full length of France to the Milau Bridge with my wife (and all her shoes).....engine and suspension had no issues and returned 65 mpg fuel economy even though I weigh 260 lbs🏍️💨💨💨🍻👍💂♀️
wow, 65 miles to the gallon.. I think I might finally have gotten a honest 61 miles per gallon. Not sure because I filled the tank with the bike on the side stand. I weigh 220 pounds. I’m 5‘10“, it’s a good fit for me. I just ordered a set of GL 1800 foot pegs for it, because they are wider front to back. We will see how that works. They should be here September 3.
I had this stripped down version of this bike with this very similar engine. It was called the hawk GT here in the USA. I spotted it one day sitting in the back of some guy’s garage as I was doing my rounds in his neighborhood working on my regular job. I struck up a conversation and ended up buying it. It was a 650 V twin., water cooled, single-sided, swingarm, no faring at all, 1300 miles. The kid was going away to college in a few weeks, and when I offered to buy it, he jumped at the chance. It was red…
I had every intention of riding that bike for at least a year. But at the time I already had three street bikes. My FJ 1200, my Yamaha venture royale, and my commuter Honda pacific coast.
I was working part time in a local Yamaha/suzuki shop selling bikes after working on weekends, and a guy came in looking for a bike for his wife used, we didn’t have anything. So I told him about my hawk GT. He brought his wife over To my house a few days later and they liked it. So I let it go with a nice profit without having to do anything to it… that bike was chain drive. I don’t remember exactly what year that machine was but I remember when I took it for a ride. I felt that it was a little cramped. That’s why I was willing to part with it.
if the bags were detachable, they would stick out more because they would be on brackets.. I like the way the bags are tucked in tight..
If there is one country, I would like to ride my motorcycle in it is France..
are used to broadcast the daily, Tour de France bicycle race here and I would record the entire five or six hours a day just to look at the scenery, and those fantastic mountain roads..
I sold my Honda pacific coast that I commuted on for 24 years on eBay. The guy was asking me a lot of questions about fit and comfort and gas mileage before he came from St. Louis Missouri to pick it up here in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I asked him what he weighs. He said he weighed 260 at one time but he now weighs 200 pounds.
I asked him how did you do that. He said he only did one thing. He stopped drinking coke a cola. That’s the only thing he stopped and within a year he dropped 60 pounds. He said he was addicted to it.
@@Jodyrides definitely do France......nowadays I stay off motorways and eat my way round the country.....lots of little cafes doing great food (and McD if you're fussy).....an adult population who started riding scooters aged 14 tend to be cool about bikers.... the bike cops threatened to go on strike when they got told they'd have wear hiviz over their leathers....(a police force that gets wine with lunch)...guess I've just decided where to go next holiday👍🍟🍷🏍️💨💨💨💨👍p.s. honda naked was the NTV650 shaft drive as opposed to the NT650V (Deauville).....also once rode my Deauville to Deauville for lunch but the G7 was on and I got told in french to "bugger off" somewhere else....looked nice though😸
How does it do on highways? 70-80mph.
I have not had the machine out on the interstates Long enough to find out how it is at 80 miles an hour. In this video, after I got gas, you may have noticed I was complaining about hesitations. I was wondering if it was the throttle position sensor.
I have several other videos, showing what the problem was ..
strange foreign material in the fuel that I suspect was caused by stabilizer that had crystallized or morphed into chalk like materal..when I called the original owner and asked if he had ever put anything extra in the oil or gas. He said no. He never put anything in the oil or the gas, except stabilizer!!!!!! that was it I think. I’ve never seen anything like when I got out of the gas tank in any machine. It has to be the stabilizer that created all of those little particles that ended up completely blocking my fuel filter.
I did have the machine up to 75 around may be 80 miles an hour for a couple minutes on the interstate. I could tell that the motor was not as smooth after I got up to 75 or so as it was at all other speeds below that…
But overall, I have not even had one tank of gas through this machine yet. So I can’t give a fair evaluation.--yet
Winter has closed in, and I’m gonna take my time doing all of the regular maintenance from steering head bearings to driveshaft splines/fork, oil, coolant change, Valve adjustment, inspect the water pump, seal/impeller, which had been an issue on some of these machines, and inspect the spark plug caps that Honda was about to recall,, These cabs, when in hot climates, had a tendency to crack and leak, which made the motorcycle, have symptoms of hesitation that feel like fuel starvation when in fact, it’s misfiring due to cracks in the spark plug caps.. that’s all I could find negative about this machine on the Internet…
I will be putting out some videos probably starting in March after the winter weather goes away here in Western Pennsylvania..
they top out around 110MPH, smooth as silk around 70-80 MPH