Welcome to the group. Post a picture of your bike, we like pictures. While I can't help with your issue as I don't have a 450. I'd like to comment on you inquiry as to how fast they are. IMHO a small bike is like a classic sports car, not real fast in acceleration, but can take turns and never let off the gas or hit the brakes. I personally think that is the aspect of riding that is most exciting, diving into a turn hanging off the side never gets old or looses that fear factor. While I admit the rush to the top on a liter class supersport is terrifying and wonderful. Anybody can twist the throttle and hang on, it takes skill to corner, and separates the real riders from the squids and "I wanna be a bad ass" posers. Enjoy your 450 for its strengths, and learn to ride it well, and if you stick with riding and upgrade your bike. Don't be so quick to sell her, sometimes riding an old friend outweighs the cost of keeping them around. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: clkcrawford <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:22:15 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Tachometer issues Welp...just bought my first bike last weekend. A project bike that with a little TLC should be running and looking good in a few weeks. Its a 1985 Honda Nighthawk cb450sc. The only part I'm having trouble finding or even figuring out is the tachometer. I need to replace the speedo in it and the other gauge I'm assuming is the tachometer is missing from the "cluster". I cant find one anywhere for that year and in the Clymer pictures it shows some other like indicator gauge and not something that looks like your traditional RPM tachometer. I searched everywhere online and in this group to see if I could find a pic of the tach that I need but to no avail. So my question is this...does a 1985 honda nighthawk cb450 have a tachometer? And if it doesnt, how easy would it be to get one and get it installed? And can I use any speedometer too from a different nighthawk? I'm finding that my selection is a lot more and pricing a lot better if I can choose any speedometer except I'm not mechanically inclined (not yet) and dont know if those are particular to the bikes or what. My last question is this..any one from either experience or print references know what the 1/4 mile and/or 0-60 times are for the 450? Having trouble finding any info on that. Hoping its at least in the 13's somewhere so I dont have to try and upgrade or make it faster. Maybe shoulda bought a 650 or bigger nighthawk but got a great deal on this one and love the potential 55mpg I'll be getting. Thanks for this group I love reading the posts and I appreciate any and all info ya'll could provide me about this. Thanks! Nighthawk Rookie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nighthawk_lovers/-/9rn8Jmu3B_kJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
