07-01-2021, 01:51 PM
(07-01-2021, 12:45 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: It's funny, I thought about you and your CBR while riding tonight stichill. I've never been able to understand riding less than liter bike. Been riding liter bikes for 44 years, since I bought my KZ 1000 in 1977. Grown accustomed to the unlimited horsepower and bottomless torque. I thought about how you said you were going to keep your CBR forever.
The quarter horse , although not a 250, is starting to make me understand the viability of smaller bikes. (can a 750 really be called a smaller bike? Well put in perspective it actually can. At 58 hp and 51 ft lbs of torque it is quite small in performance compared to the 145 hp and 93 ft.lbs of torque motorcycle I traded in on it). Truthfully if it were a standard manual shift, I might still be a little skeptical. I had the CB500X in the garage for over a year and riding it, I found all the shifting tedious. But the DCT takes all the tediousness out of the picture. I can concentrate on perfect lines, and maintaining speed, rather than upshifting/downshifting, and being in the "right" gear all the time. The DCT does all that for me. I'm finding that enlightening.
I'm finding this new revelation intriguing... and confusing at the same time.lol
I'm fascinated! I think I enjoy the shifting coupled with finding the perfect line, but I think for you shifting has not been an attraction so you gravitated toward torque and power to minimize the need to shift. You just might be an electric bike candidate at some point...
I do think that if you take away the instantaneous throttle response of a powerful bike, what you are left with is the motorcycle itself. Its true character is revealed in the absence of abundant torque. Can it carry decent speed into a curve with confidence, or is it a pig that needs to be hauled down with the brakes and punched back up to speed with its grunt motor?