Corsair CP-9020122-UK CX Series 650 W CX650 ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze 650W Power Supply Unit - Black

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I also had to keep an eye on the coolant level because there was a slight leak around some of the joints and the head gaskets were also weeping.

The CX650C was a cruiser-oriented bike aimed at the US market, and had it's own frame with a lower seat, teardrop tank and shorter exhaust giving it quite a different look to the other CX650s in 1983's lineup. Motorcycle Classics brings the most brilliant, unusual, and popular motorcycles ever made right to you! In 1981 Honda released the GL500 Silver Wing, which was a mid-sized touring bike based on the CX500 engine. This creates a denser air charge, allowing a larger fuel/air charge in each cylinder, and hence more power.

The result was a bike that, while equally impressive on boost, was a lot easier to ride when transitioning from off-boost to on-boost. To make matters worse for Japanese importers, Harley-Davidson successfully petitioned for a tariff on all Japanese imports of 700cc and larger. S. and Canada for students to learn to work on, alongside very specific instructions about bike destruction requirements once this model was no longer in production.

Just how many came to Australia seams difficult to determine as they were imported by several importers.

The below is an interesting despatch series that features the CX (500) an awful lot in the passing pictures.

At a stroke Honda moved the goalposts with liquid cooling, 4-valve heads, shaft drive and even tubeless tyres.This bike looked nearly identical to the original CX500 Standard, with the exception of regular (85 mph) gauges and headlight (the mini fairing was removed) and black reversed Com Star wheels - 19 inch front and 16 inch rear.

When we think of CXs now the image which springs to mind is of the Plastic Maggot, the despatch-ridden hack, cluttered with luggage and an aftermarket fairing, ready to roll for yet another 100,000 miles. Only just over 1,700 of these bikes were ever made, with around 1,200 of those making it to North America. Honda specified in the donation agreement that tech school bikes were not supposed to leave the school, and the instructors were supposed to destroy them after the model was discontinued. My test ride revealed that the bars shook a bit at low speeds and swung violently from side to side if I took a hand off. The frame is completely different, and the styling was marketed to accommodate the American desire for the low stretched look of American cruiser bikes.

I think competition had a lot to do with it, plus the CX was not to everybody's liking (just like today), coupled with that I heard that they were just too expensive to continue producing. A breaker offered me a hundred notes for the old heap and I took the money with alacrity - I had thought I would have to pay someone to come to take it away. I never noticed any difference when riding along, probably not sensitive enough or more likely was going too gently to make it misbehave. Exhaust gases flowing through the turbo turn a small rotor, which in turn drives another rotor to deliver air under pressure to the intake manifold. I remember riding my CX650E through Washington State in the mid 80s and having kids go gaga over it.