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picked up some hodaka dealer manuals from a guy in town lots of stuff .heres a few good ones

That bulletin is hilarious. The tranny grenades if you bottom the fender on the tire. What if you slam on the rear brake without pulling in the clutch? Then they instruct dealers how to make the customer think it's his fault. Hilarious. Thanks for posting.

Hodaka brakes were not famous for total lockup and you usually let the throttle off when you hit the brake. In the day with a top running engine wound out, almost at the peak of the powerband? With the crankshaft, flywheel, clutch and gears all spinning and the big butt smashed the solid finder down on the new tire, locking up the drive train something had to give and it was not the big butt. Winners became losers and it did not take much to figure it out. PABTCO always got the message out quickly and we all moved onward and upward. you should have seen the junk we had to ride before Hodaka came along, it was heavy, low and wide. We were all modifying our own machines, porting reeds and all information was going to Harry and in return from Harry. You would have had to live it, to understand it. I raced motocross against Harry in about 69+/- and together we were able to relive that race before he passed. Nothing was the customers fault, Hodaka made improvements bigger, stronger and quicker than anybody and they put it into production immediately. They had their humor but it was all business, professional business. ----- My pleasure to share Clarence