Faults:

Battery normal wear.

General Comments:

I love it; easy to ride and very fast; it blows away my Harley Davidson riding friends; they are amazed on how fast this 750 Vulcan is. You just can't beat the reliability of Japanese bikes - bullet proof.

Faults:

1. Headlight went out, but found it to be a wiring problem.

2. Stator went bad.

3. Fork seals leaking.

4. Neutral light quit working (sensor).

General Comments:

Many motorcycle owners consider a 750cc bike to be an "introductory" motorcycle . My first bike was a 750cc. I've owned many different size street bikes and found the 750cc to be my favorite.

I recently purchased a 2001 Vulcan 750. I love it! Aside from being over 15 years old, this is a great bike. I've had some problems with this bike, electric, stator, sensors, but I still love this bike. Stable, plenty of power, shaft drive, corners well, great gas mileage, comfort, and above all, it fits me like glove (5'7", 125lb). This may be the best bike I've ever owned.

Faults:

Well, when I first got it, it wouldn't crank when hot. Had to buy another starter and an AGM battery to cure this.

Seat was wore out, recovered it.

I found my charging system was weak, bought a new voltage regulator / rectifier for it. I found bad connections between the stator and regulator too.

Carbs needed a good cleaning out. Someone used this 10% ethanol gas in it and fouled the carbs up. Use straight premium gas in these bikes to be trouble free.

Had to replace the petcock too.

General Comments:

Now that work has been performed on this machine, it is a reliable and fun bike to ride.

If the bike was properly taken care of, we would not have these problems with it.

The right gasoline makes all the difference in the world with these old bikes.

It gets good gas mileage too.

Faults:

This bike developed a coolant leak at the base of the forward cylinder at about 3000 miles, due to gasket failure from the factory. Also the drive shaft splines were not lubed at the factory. I learned about the lube problem, and corrected it before any damage resulted from that. The gasket required removal of the engine to correct. The gasket, and those that needed to be replaced to get to it, cost about $50.00. The labor to replace the gasket would have been $1,000.00. Fortunately I was able to do the work at home during the winter.

Later on the bike left me stranded several times, because it would not restart when shut off. The battery was not recharging. Stator voltages seemed OK. It turned out to be bad connections between the stator wiring and the voltage regulator wiring. The voltage regulator was replaced twice.

After all the bugs were worked out, the bike has never failed me since. After 20 years of manufacture, Kawasaki never strove to make improvements on the initial design, even though there were many known recurrent problems. Shame on them.

General Comments:

I like to commute on this bike. It has nimble handling in town and good visibility. Long distance riding is not as appealing. The seat will hurt you, and it lacks the heft to take the buffeting on the interstate.

There is a nice array of features and gauges, and normal maintenance is easy to do at home.

Faults:

Battery was bad right off the show room floor. The one they replaced it with is not very good either. Will have to replace, just need to make through this season.

General Comments:

Great little bike! Still not what I expected, bought without test ride. I think a Suzuki 750 would eat it up!