My new bike choice, Honda Magna! - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

Vip18971 · 12-31-2007, 09:50 AM

I'm sure many of you saw and commented in the thread where I was looking for advice on a new bike to get. Well, I looked around at several types and along the way I got the chance to ride the Honda Magna that I wanted to try out.

As soon as I cracked the throttle in third gear and blew the rear tire away, I was in love...well, AFTER I stopped shaking from fear, that is. Its just what I've been wanting. Maybe a LITTLE wide, but not bad. Not too heavy. And it has some balls to it - this thing is STUPID fast.

So, now I'm soon to be the proud owner of a 1995 Honda Magna. I picked it up for 2,500. Runs flayless, a little tiny bit of surface rust here and there from sitting. The seat cover is toast, so I've gotta get it recovered. But overall a nice bike.

So, aside from the fact that I'm going to kill myself on this beast, anything I should be especially wary of with the Magnas? And also, wheres a good site for parts for them? I'm going to replace a couple of peices on the bike - and I'm sorta undecided on the drag bars that are on it thus far...might like 'em, might hate 'em...So might need another set of handlebars soon. Just looking for body peices here, btw. I know I said that I wanted to build a bike's engine in my last thread, but Jesus Christ am I scared of this bike. I have absolutely no desire to make it faster.