03-27-2015, 11:00 PM
(03-27-2015, 02:35 PM)AndyHe_imp Wrote: A friend and I went riding today and we switched bikes for a bit. Thus I found myself on a Ducati Hypermotard... a very strange beast. Both bikes are air cooled, both have two wheels and similar controls but there the similarities pretty much end. The Ducati vibrated like riding a chain saw and it was quite twitchy. The overall bike is quite short and I felt like I was sitting right over the front wheel. The gear shift took a lot of force to move between gears. It is much lighter than the CB (by over 100 pounds and I could definitely feel the difference). Didn't much care for it at all.
My friend on the other hand said that riding the CB was like sitting in a barcolounger and gave him no sense of excitement. He said it was way too smooth for his liking. My reaction was "um.. too smooth? really? whatever" and then we went back to riding our own bikes and were each quite happy.
I had a chance to ride a hypermotard as well...and the chainsaw comparison is dead on. I felt like I was riding a 2 by 4 board.
open clutch were horrible. some say they like it...to each his own as you put it.