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What is this? Owner claims it's a 1987-yamaha-maxim-xj-750

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    Mike00, Aug 13, 2019
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    It's a Maxim X. Produced 1985-1986, but may have been sold as an '87.
    Unless it's a Canadian import the engine is 700cc.
     
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    That was quick, thank you. I never knew of them. Am I right to assume their U.S. sales were dwarfed by their XJ predecessors?
     
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    Only due to the relatively few years of production, coupled with an overabundance of unsold machines from prior years.
     
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    Harley Davidson didn't like the hi volume of imported Japanese bikes flooding the American market. So HD filed, and got, the FTC to impose a lot higher import tarrif on imported Japanese bikes over 700cc. Yamaha turned the XJ750 down to a 700 to avoid the higher tarrifs. Yamaha and the other Japanese companies appealed and had the tarrif overturned. Since the govt. wheels of Justice took about 2 years to get straight, it wasn't til 1987 that Y. increased the cc. from 700 back to 750. And so the story goes....
     
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    That one is an ‘85
     
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    I also have an '85, but if there's a difference from the '86, I'm not aware of it. Mine is not an "X", though. Gil
     
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    The differences are listed near the bottom of this linked page.
    http://www.maxim-x.com/notes.html
     
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    Tkx ... Guess I gotta little reading to do...
     
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