10-04-2018, 08:50 AM
(10-03-2018, 08:15 PM)MM300_imp Wrote: You paid for the bike, you get to do whatever you want with it. No judgment here.
As for me, I modified the first two bikes I owned and learned how quickly doing so can turn into a money pit situation. Lots of cash spent trying to ‘re-engineer’ perfectly sound machines with less than stellar results.
From that point on I have spent $0.00 on bike mods.
IMO, a modern bike is a very well tuned and integrated system. If I could wave a magic wand and get 25% more power out of the motor (but still had to pay to bring the suspension, brakes and frame up to snuff), I wouldn’t do it. This is only partially due to the cost. I’d be more concerned as to how many further mods, tweaks and trials it would take to get the bike, overall, to feel,ride and handle as brilliantly as the stock machine. All the while obsessing over some minor (but expensive) detail that’ll just make it great!
I’m not an engineer, I don’t think I’m an engineer and I don’t want to be one. I just want to ride.
I’ve owned some of the top sport bikes ever offered. I knew what the CB was before I bought it and right out of the box it performed as expected. Five seasons in, un-modded. I’m happy with it.
Glad you are happy with your bike, but not going to lie- every time I read a post like this, I wish I could put that person on my bike and let them ride it for a full tank of gas.
I promise you- if you just rode down the street and back, OK- you would say yea your stocker is good enough. But put put 100+ miles on mine and I'd bet a paycheck you would admit it was better in almost every measurable tangible metric.
Sure you may not want to pay for those improvements- but I promise you a long ride would make you it admit they are there- if you were an honest man.