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1 comments about How to Keep Your Honda Atc Big Red Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures Anyone Can Follow.

1. If you have a Honda Big Red or ATC250SX then you NEED this book. Lots of great tech tips and troubleshooting guides, plus it has illustrations that you can actually decipher. Some technical things could use more pictures, but those are the things that, if you're doing them, you pretty much can do anyway.

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1 comments about Honda CX/GL500 & 650 - V-Twins: 497cc-673cc., 1978 to 1986 (Owners Workshop Manual).

1. Very helpful, well worth the purchase price in saving over having a shop do the same work!

2 comments about Honda Gold Wing and Valkyrie.

1. I've noted that there aren't many books available on the Valkyrie, other than the standard service manuals. I happened to pick this one up, as it was the only title I could locate after doing a bit of web searching. When I got it, I was sorely disappointed. The Valkyrie portion is a mere 16 pages of the 144 total, most of that being photos, and all of the content focuses on the Standard model [no mention of the Tourer or my ride, the Interstate model]. To be fair, this is a 1999 publication and the Valkyrie IS model did not debut until then.

   The Gold Wing portion is on par with most of the other bike-bio books I own. The book does contain a good mix of 'behind the scenes' and development stories, promotional materials, and plenty of photos. There is also a specifications thumbnail section at the back of the book that covers initial key models: 1000, 1100, 1200, 1500cc Wings, and the standard Valkyrie.

   Bottom line: If your looking for background details on the Valkyrie, this may be your only choice, but consider it Valkyrie-lite. For a Gold Wing fan, I'd say it rates about average among other offerings I've read.

   My hope is that, since Honda has apparently pulled the plug on the Valkyrie line [no offense to the Rune model], either this author or others will see fit to document the birth and death of motorcycling's first true heavy cruiser.




2. In short, the author went to a few bike meets, took some photos and probably put the book together in an afternoon.

   If you are interested in the technical aspect of the bike and its hardware, you can get more technical info from Honda's sale brochure.

   The photographs are colorful, in focus and correctly exposed and that is about it. Any competent person with an auto everything SLR can probably do the same.

   But if you are looking for ideas to accessorize your wing, this may be a good starting guide.

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