1984 Honda Dealer film. GL1200

[sunnbobb]

[Whiskerfish]

Very cool!

"The Vacuum advance works only in 4th gear and overdrive"
Did not know that

[05c50]

After seeing all the improvements on the 1200, it makes me want to go out and buy one. Lots of stuff to make it smoother, quieter, and easier to ride and maintain, but the first item listed has me confused. (1:10 in the video) The engine mount angle was changed to raise the cylinder. What does that do?

.......Paul

[Rat]

Ground clearance ?

Gord

[Lucien Harpress]

I DID always wonder about that angle on the 1200 engine...

[ericheath]

Interesting. I don’t recall and didn’t know the engine angle changed either. Maybe to offset the wider block.

[Shadowjack]

If you ever hear a 1200 with a deceleration engine rattle like gears clacking together, it's a bad alternator damper mechanism.

[passx]

I bought a 84 1200 late last year that turns out to be a very clean standard that someone added the Honda bags, topcase and a Vetter fairing all painted the wine berry to match. My original intent was to use it to build my 78 into a 1200 hot rod with 75 heads, cams and a single carb or fuel injection.

But thus bike is just beautiful, very clean and just runs perfectly, so now am thinking of stripping the fairing and topcase off, leave the bags and take it back to a “standard” bagger if you will. Doesn’t need much (headlight and turn Signals). And then maybe start the search for a suitable candidate to make the 78. This 84 standard is just to nice to gut..

[low-side]

I agree with you passx - there are just too many bikes without titles with decent engines to ruin the survivors.

[wog]

I recall that the angle of the engine in the frame was angled just for more ground clearance.