The symptoms are the same as having a weak battery. Ergonomics are neutral for a cruiser. Someone used this 10% ethanol gas in it and fouled the carbs up. Who knew some bevel gears, a hollow shaft, and some U-joints could be so spendy! The seat will hurt you, and it lacks the heft to take the buffeting on the interstate. Long distance riding is not as appealing.
The lines are lumpy, the narrow handle bars stick up high, the exhaust pipes resemble an accident with soldering wire, the air box looks as though it was slapped on at random, and the one-piece seat contributes to the lumpy look. Full instrumentation, including both coolant-temperature and fuel-level gauges, and a center stand are standard fare. Nothing cross-country but 100-200 mile round trips. Put in oil, put in gas, lube the splines whenever you happen to have the back wheel off for a new tire and ride the wheels off of it. Once I replaced it with a Die Hard Gold the problem is gone. After all the bugs were worked out, the bike has never failed me since.
If the bike was properly taken care of, we would not have these problems with it. Just change the oil and you're good to go. The only deficient area, in our eyes, is poor damping in bumpy corners and a pronounced tendency to flop into corners, an undesirable trait that the other Vulcan models managed to avoid. They are supposed to be very comfortable cruisers and seem perfect for the type of riding I will be doing. It involves some cutting with a Dremel-type tool and fabricating a metal piece to replace the piece that was removed. Take a trip out to buy your new ride and spend some time cruising the Black Hills or Badlands of South Dakota!! My first bike was a 750cc. We strive hard to make sure you know exactly what you are buying by giving a very honest appraisal of the unit's condition.
Overall, the Kawasaki Vulcan 750 is a high tech, low maintenance machine with a reputation for being reliable and durable. It is a rarity in the cruiser world for being an example of function over form. Carbs needed a good cleaning out. Now on the third battery, and I put a battery minder on and leave it plugged in at home, and have not had a single issue since. At 4, whole electrical system fried and had to tear down and rebuild.
These bike are known to have some issues, but once you get a hold of things, it is seriously a fun bike. Even if I got a bigger cruiser, I think I would hold onto this one just for the fun of it. Hydraulic valve lash adjusters ease maintenance and liquid cooling increases overall engine durability. Since they are such different styles I can choose what fits my mood. I get quite a few comments about the old cruiser bike look. The drive spline lubing is laughably easy once you figure out how to get the rear wheel around the never-enough-cursed muffler.
In fact, my bike would eat a battery, feel better for a while and then go back to the same sad state. What the Vulcan 750 lacks in the looks department, it more than makes up for in the internals and high tech features, and low maintenance items. If you remove the mufflers and put on K-n-N filters it greatly improves noise and power. General Comments: I like to commute on this bike. After market parts are very hard to find for the bike. We enjoy meeting new people and welcoming them to our area, so call us with your flight arrival time and we will get you picked up from the airport and arrange hotel accommodations if needed. It gets good gas mileage too.
Had a problem with it stalling in motion. No Review Date: 16th September, 2012. Seat was wore out, recovered it. I ride it with friends, and it is a great cruising bike. Fairly easy to work on unless you need to do stator work; then you have to pull the motor.
Yes Review Date: 26th May, 2008. I don't have to depend on it for main transportation so that is not an issue. I found bad connections between the stator and regulator too. I've butt-tested the Star 250 and think it is a good little bike, the ergos feel good to me, but I'm afraid that I would want a bike that could do a little more after a seaon of riding. Ask questions Join the group or the general group. Some did have a stator problem but I never ran into it. Powered by a liquid-cooled, double overhead cam 749cc V-twin engine, the Vulcan 750 is powerful and low-maintenance.
They are both reliable and fun to ride. Shaft drives don't impress me much, anyway, but the repair costs if something should go wrong are just wacky. Post will be removed if sold. I dare you to find a model of bike that has a stator and has no reported incidents of it getting stuffed. There was a fellow on these boards once in a while that had a Vulcan 750 - I can't remember for the life of me who it was, though. And that lumpy looking seat is very cushy and comfortable for long rides by most riders. It was hard to believe it was that widespread of a problem, but after all those posts I started wondering.
I know that buying a bike that is approaching 10 years old or even older is more than likely going to have issues but I am not interested in buying a bike that I will have to do such in-depth repairs to just to keep it rideable. We are only 10 minutes from Rapid City Regional Airport! You are making a difference to millions of riders worldwide. It has hydraulically actuated valves no adjustment , a shaft drive no adjustment , and is so butt-ugly nobody would ever steal it. General Comments: Now that work has been performed on this machine, it is a reliable and fun bike to ride. After 3 years I am finally going to be in a position to buy a bike, even if I'll be restricted to older, used bikes. General Comments: Those first few years were not the happy motorcycling experience that I had hoped for. Totally ruined us both on a Kawasaki Product! I learned about the lube problem, and corrected it before any damage resulted from that.