500/750/800/900cc

[RicksV2k]

Welcome Downtown to the forum.

[Bill Austin]

Looking for a set of stock 2002 Vulcan 800 pipes. Any one have a set for sale?

[cookiema]

I need to get a replacement fuel tank (preferably used) for a 90 Vulcan 750. Any tips on where to look, I have checked ebay. Also, what years are interchangable? They have some later year models but I don't want to order the wrong one. I have other replacment parts I need but that is the expensive one. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Connie

[Spok]

Originally Posted by cookiema

I need to get a replacement fuel tank (preferably used) for a 90 Vulcan 750. Any tips on where to look, I have checked ebay. Also, what years are interchangable? They have some later year models but I don't want to order the wrong one. I have other replacment parts I need but that is the expensive one. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Connie

'

give our man scruffy a pm...he might be able to help.

[2WheelFun]

Originally Posted by cookiema

I need to get a replacement fuel tank (preferably used) for a 90 Vulcan 750. Any tips on where to look, I have checked ebay. Also, what years are interchangable? They have some later year models but I don't want to order the wrong one. I have other replacment parts I need but that is the expensive one. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Connie

Welcome aboard!

I also have a 750 Vulcan...but I don't have a spare gas tank, sorry! You also may want to ask HERE.

[rwrighter]

Originally Posted by Bill Austin

Looking for a set of stock 2002 Vulcan 800 pipes. Any one have a set for sale?

I saw these on Ebay


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/kawas...spagenameZWDVW

[rballen05]

Originally Posted by NinjaGirl

This Sticky is for specific questions, concerns and feedback pertaining to the the Vulcan 500, 750 and 800 Models.

when will the 900 classic be available at the dealer in Punta Gorda, Florida?

[2WheelFun]

Originally Posted by rballen05

when will the 900 classic be available at the dealer in Punta Gorda, Florida?

You should give a dealer a call in that area and see when they will have them.

[Batman]

thank you Whistle clean for the info about the forum. i appreciate it.
looks like a good forum. thanks again

[2WheelFun]

Originally Posted by Batman

thank you Whistle clean for the info about the forum. i appreciate it.
looks like a good forum. thanks again

Hello Batman!

I'm glad you stopped in. You'll see quickly that it's a great place and there are alot of nice people here. As you know there are several members here from your arear so you should be able to find some riding buddies.

Welcome aboard and it's good to have you here!

[Norm]

Here is a write up from one of the guys I know on our Rogue group. He has some great things to say about the new 900.

Copied from our newsgroup.

Norm

The "Not Quite So Big" Bike
OR
How Kawasaki Put the VN2000 on a Diet

The Intro

My first exposure was at the dealer show in September. They rolled it
out and from a distance I thought it was a VN2000 in a different color.
The closer it got, the more I questioned my original perception until
I finally realized it wasn't a 2000 at all, it was something new. The
announcer cleared it up when he introduced the bike by name and
displacement, the new Vulcan 900 Classic. The crowd reception was
immediate and loud, they liked what they saw. So did I.

By the time I saw it inside the display area, sat on it, wiggled it
around, kicked the tires and sat on it some more, I had decided I needed
to ride it. I was intrigued by the look and feel, the price and
promises. It was, we were told, the hottest thing in a mid-sized
cruiser to hit the market in years. We had the spec sheets to define
the numbers, but the numbers faded behind the look of the bike, it
really was a mid sized bike with the big bike look. Fast forward to
Bike Week, where we were given a little history behind the development
and then actually rode it enough to get some impressions.

The 900 is the replacement for the 800 Classic, a solid seller since its
introduction and basically a bullet-proof performer. 800 owners are
fanatic about their rides and with good reason, so the decision to
eliminate it from the lineup warranted an explanation and we got it. It
was strictly a marketing decision. There was a hole in the overall
cruiser lineup across the various import manufacturers and a 900 at the
right price would fill it. The question that remained was how to style it.

Considering the positive response to the general styling of the VN2000,
and also considering that the most often negative cited were the weight
and headlight, it was logical to take styling features from the 2000 and
eliminate the negatives. Build a mid-sized bike with a big bike look,
without the weight.

Features

Some of the features include:

A 5.3 gallon fuel tank, the same capacity as the 2000. It looks big,
but not out of character. Additionally, the tank employs what's called
"constantly varying radii"….that means no flats, every surface curves.
Once you realize it, it hits you as the obvious, very nice look.

The fuel tank cap comes off, it's not attached like the others.

The rear fender is the same width as the 2000. Again, not out of
proportion, but definitely a big look to it.

The rear tire is a 180-70 15…..big tire.
Front is a 130-90 16.

This bike has a fuel gage, none of the competition offers one.

The bike is a full 4 inches longer than the 800 Classic, but the seat
height is 0.7 inches lower. It does have a longer and lower look.

Predictably, the bike is also 40 pounds heavier than the 800.

A few tech details for the motorhead types……..

The engine has 9.5 - 1 compression and the same bore as the 800. It's
basically an 800 stroker.

The generator puts out 70 watts of extra power.

The flywheel mass has been increased to give both a more torquey feel on
the bottom, and also accentuate the power pulses to continue that bigger
bike feel.

The engine utilizes what's called a "no nut" connecting rod.

It's a single pin crank motor.

Fuel injection with 2-34 mm throttle bodies.

Steering geometry deserves a mention: 32 degrees of rake, just like the
800, but trail has been increased from 4.8 to 6.5 inches. Offering more
stability and a more solid feel.

The standard comes in solids: silver, red or blue and goes for $7299

The Light Tourer comes in two two-tones: Black/Silver, or Black/Red and
sells for $8499. An aded feature of the LT is the 24 month warranty as
compared to the 12 month on the standard.

The Ride

Turn on the key and hit the "Go" button and it fires up to a fast idle
right away. Within seconds it drops to a relaxed cadence with a
surprisingly nice exhaust note. No, it's not straight pipes and it's
not going to set off the neighborhood car alarms, but it's more than I
expected. Blip the throttle a few times and it's not bad for a 900 cc
bike with stock pipes. Most will change them anyway, but the look and
sound will let you get away with keeping them if you want.

I took a standard at first since I prefer no windshield and I always get
a better feel for performance without one….probably in my head, but
that's just me. Climb aboard and the ergos for me were generally
acceptable. Seating position comfortable, floorboards allowed some
variability in leg angle, grips in a good spot and mirrors I could
actually use to see behind me. Warm up a minute and ready to roll.

Clutch is a cable and light to the touch. Click it into first gear,
slide out into traffic heading north from South Daytona Beach and you
immediately notice the low end torque, it's in surprising abundance.
Catch second gear and there it is again. My normal ride is a 2000 and
although I'm not going to compare them, I am going to say that coming
off that bike onto this one, I didn't expect much in performance and I
was thoroughly surprised. The bike runs larger than 900 cc's, much
larger. Not so much in hard acceleration, not so much in any one
category, it just rides like a bigger bike. It rolls out from a stop
with the pulsing feel of a bigger bike, not the buzzy vibration so
common in smaller displacement machines.

After running in slow traffic for a while, we broke out into a quicker
pace, experiencing the feel at highway speeds on A1A along the ocean
north of Ormond Beach. Again, the recurring theme, more solid than I
expected. Not twitchy, not overreacting to crosswinds off the Atlantic,
it held a line pretty well and evoked confidence. The transmission is
smooth, well spaced and has the positive neutral finder. Since the
manufacturers continue to overlook tachometers on cruisers, I don't have
a feel for rpm's at speed, but I can tell you it's not excessive. I
never felt the need for a higher gear and I'm guessing that fifth is
overdriven.

We turned inland to run the "loop" road and this is about the twistiest
road in or around Daytona, which is not to say it's Deal's Gap, but it
does offer a little insight into the handling characteristics of your
ride. This one does well enough, better than most. If you work at it
you can scrape the boards, but it does take a little work. Through this
section I also challenged the brakes and they were up to each one. Dual
disks on front, single disk on the rear and no fade, no grabbing, decent
braking for a cruiser.

Around this point we also swapped bikes, I got an LT. I noticed right
away that the windshield was at least six inches too high for me, I was
looking through the middle. I realize not everyone likes to look over
the top like me, but I think you'd have to be Shaquille to look over it,
that thing's tall. It's also wide. The bags were nice, but a little
short looking, a common element in factory bags. Given the $1200
difference and the added features being the windshield, bags and
warranty, I think I'd go for the standard and do the rest myself.

I guess the bottom line is that this is a mid-size displacement bike
with a bigger bike feel and look. It accelerates, handles and brakes as
good as any and better than most other cruiser bikes. The price is
right, the look and performance are right, it should be a solid seller
and a good performer. If I was in the market for a mid-sized cruiser,
this one would be hard to get past.

Thanks for reading…….
Joker
VROC 93
Rogue
Tampa,,,,,FL

[Jock]

Hi folks, just thought i'd drop in and say hello. I've just reached the ripe old age of 45 and thought that after a 20 year break I would get back onto two wheels. I haven't got pots of money and the budget was set at £800/$1400 by the financial controller (wife). I managed to pick up a 1990 Vulcan 500 (we call it EN500) on Ebay for £590/$1035 so with the insurance I came in a little under budget. I found this forum when I googled a query about which gas to use. Excellent site. I'll be popping in from time to time as and when I need advice or parts, I can't even find a drive belt over here.

Anyway that's me, oh and by the way, Which fuel, regular or super?

Cheers

[Caric]

Hi all,
After about 8 yrs of n o riding, i finally went out and got a 2006 Vulcan 500 LTD to get back into the swing of things with. My partner got a 2006 Yamaha FZ6 to ride with me. I have been liscensed since I was 19 (14 yrs ago) and am so happy to be back riding again. Finally found a good forums to go to for information and other tidbits of goodies and hopefully will be ableot help out some here as well.

[2WheelFun]

Welcome Jock and Caric!

Glad to have you both here!

I use regular in my 750 and 1500 with no problems. Possibly your fuel octane may be different?

[buds44]

Got the vance & hines cruzers on my 800 and they sound great. Going to have dealer install the jet kit this week, They recomend a V&H jet kit. Does anyone have this jet kit and have any comments. I read alot on this forum and some say just turn air fuel screw out. I am no mecanic so i'm thinking if I pay the dealer to take the carb off to drill and pull the screw plug i might as well have the jet kit installed.

[bluestringer]

Originally Posted by buds44

Got the vance & hines cruzers on my 800 and they sound great. Going to have dealer install the jet kit this week, They recomend a V&H jet kit. Does anyone have this jet kit and have any comments. I read alot on this forum and some say just turn air fuel screw out. I am no mecanic so i'm thinking if I pay the dealer to take the carb off to drill and pull the screw plug i might as well have the jet kit installed.

You don't need to rejet with just pipes. When you do an air mod, then you can rejet. And you can probably get by without adjusting the mixture screw, but if you want to turn it out a little, it's no problem to get to it. You don't have to completely remove the carb to do it. Visit the Wolf's site and download the PDF on how to do the mixture screw adjustment.

If you rejet without doing an air mod, it will never run right.

[GolfingBiker]

Hello,

A newbie here. I purchased a new 2005 Vulcan 800 Classic on Christmas Eve 2005 (yes a Christmas present to me). I now have just over 1600 miles on it. After not riding in over 12 years I am kicking myself for not getting back on the wheels sooner. I have enjoyed reading the forums here and have a question about sound and de-baffling the stock pipes. The question I have is: How do I go about doing this? Please let me know if anyone has done this to their bike. Is there any other tweeking I need to do to any other part of the engine if I de-baffle the pipes?

Thanks in advance.

[GolfingBiker]

Another question....How do I adjust the rear shock for a little stiffer ride. The factory adjustment seems fine for me alone (I am about 160 pounds, but when the wife (about 155 pounds-don't tell her I let everyone know) rides with with me it lowers my line of sight just below the windshield. I like to have that line about an inch above the windshield.

Thanks.

[bluestringer]

Check out RW's site for great info on the 800.



http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/russwolf/

[jerammie]

I am concidering purchasing the new 900 vulcan. does anyone have advice on weather or not it is a good buy. and the local dealers say they are about a month out any one know how I can get one sooner