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From: mike@zinfandel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 04:19:03 EDT
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zinfandel!mike    May 31 17:34:00 1984


>RE: Info needed on Honda XL350
>I haven't looked into the new hardware/mods they have put on the beast
>since '78, but I believe the bike hasn't changed  a lot.

They quit making the XL350 after 1978 and didn't make another 350 dual
purpose bike until this year.  It was replaced with the XL250 and
XL500 in 1979.  Both of the new bikes had a new engine design as well as
other changes.  The next change was in the rear suspension, PRO-LINK (a
trade name for the latest Honda rising rate monoshock) was added so the
designation had a R suffix put on it (XR500R, etc.).  Then in 1983 Honda
discontinued the XL500R and came out with the XL600R (I don't remember what
happened to the XL250R that year).  Just this year Honda released an all new
XL350R (they still have the XL250R). The latest bikes (1983 and later) have
another new engine design, lighter weight, bigger forks, front disk brakes
(on some models), chrome-molly frame (as opposed to mild steel), etc.  To
make a long story short (shorter?), you probably couldn't tell that the
same factory produced the 1978 XL350 and the 1984 XL350R if it wasn't for
the decals on the gas tank and the factory name on the steering head!
The ONLY bad news is that the price has changed also.


				Mike Blenderman
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