TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM

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Yeah, that's cooler than cucumber ice-cream.
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Seem to recall that being in PS magazine. Nice bike
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I don't like it, you do have to wonder why start with an XJ750
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It looks ok but not really my cup of tea

The engineering is excellent, I'm impressed
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:12 am I don't like it, you do have to wonder why start with an XJ750
He already had the bike, his first bike, saw a pic of this:

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and thought he'd build an "OEM" version of it. Its in the article..
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Love it but should have a proper engine.
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Engineering is top notch, but with the amount of mods he's made the donor bike could have been anything. And banging a turbo on an old air-cooled XJ900 lump looks like a recipe for detonation to me. 200 bhp, but for how long?

And I'm sorry, but it's still a fuck-ugly old XJ. Just because you can does not mean you should.
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love it. fair play to the chap he has some skills
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Like I said before, you can't really go wrong with an endurance racer styled bike, if you like them then you like them all.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:00 am Love it but should have a proper engine.
It has a proper engine, none of that liquid cooled witchcraft!