03-09-2021, 12:26 AM
(03-08-2021, 04:11 PM)treedoc_imp Wrote: I had a CB500X, I liked that bike, it was a great commuter.
I put 30,000 trouble free kms on it and sold it for almost the same money I bought it for.
Ferret if you didnt gel with the 500X, do you think the 750X might be a bit similar for your tastes?
treedoc...at a soon to be 71 I am looking to downsize a bit, and thought the CB 500X would be enough. Alas it was not. I guess technically it had enough power but it was all the dang shifting that got to me. shift, shift shift shift shift. Didn't seem like you could go 100 yards without upshifting and if you let off the gas for a curve, or traffic you had to down shift once or twice or thrice to get back in the power. I don't know for sure if the NC750X will do it, but it's in between the 500 and the liter bikes. It's a pretty torquey bike and the DCT would allow for NO manual shifts and may allow some extra riding time and relief to a toe that sometimes gets gout and bunion attacks which make shifting (and walking) very painful. Bunion started hurting Friday and kept me off the bike Saturday, so I am heading in for a cortisone shot in my toe in a couple of hours). I did ride Sunday and Monday but it was very painful to upshift.
(03-09-2021, 12:23 AM)VLJ_imp Wrote: You want a third bike to spread the riding load around?
Easy enough solution.
Get another CB1100.
VLJ the scenario I am envisioning is, the FJR will eventually get sold. I love the bike, but it's big and heavy and I don't need that much bike anymore. My wife told me the other day she thinks she is done riding. We will see when summer hits. Due to a replacement hip and two replacement knees (and a pelvis broken many years ago), she was only able to ride 30-50 miles at a time last year and had trouble mounting/dismounting and walking after getting off the bike. I told her as long as she wants to ride, even 50 miles a day, I will keep a big bike for two up riding, but if she is done, there is little need for me to have the FJR. So in my mind the CB would move into the long distance bike position, and the NC would be the local rides bike. I had considered another CB 1100 by the way, but then I'd just be shifting another bike and have 2 identical bikes in the stable. Think I want to try something else, but my CB isn't going anywhere.