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Those both look like regular old 920 Viragos, judging from the rectangular headlights and gauge clusters. Definitely not the "Euro" XV920 RH/RJ which had enclosed chain drive.
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I didn't have a lot of choices available to me.- Venture. Too big for me.- XS650. Which is probably what I should have done, vibration be damned.- Virago. Either 750 or 920. - A bunch of smaller bikes
There were only three issues.- The horrible noise the starter made- You could mount the oil filter element in the wrong direction which immediately caused destroyed cam shafts ( I made this maistake once ). - The weak carburetor linkage caused the bike to be out of sync very often (Was fixed with machined parts and a ball bearing)
In my opinion the XV920R was a better looking machine, but for some reason the people buying Viragos wanted the kooky-looking cruiser instead.
...- You could mount the oil filter element in the wrong direction which immediately caused destroyed cam shafts ( I made this maistake once ). ...
It was sold here for a year or two,not many where sold. Kind of a cool bike.
Maybe I'm thinking that the chain drive model wasn't available in the USA (?)
As Steven C says, it was sold here in the US, for two years. I test rode one in '83.