TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
Yeah, that's cooler than cucumber ice-cream.
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
Seem to recall that being in PS magazine. Nice bike
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
I don't like it, you do have to wonder why start with an XJ750
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
He already had the bike, his first bike, saw a pic of this: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
and thought he'd build an "OEM" version of it. Its in the article..
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
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.
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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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
love it. fair play to the chap he has some skills
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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
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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Re: TURBO MAXIMUS: DEREK KIMES’ BOOSTED YAMAHA XJ750 MAXIM
It has a proper engine, none of that liquid cooled witchcraft!