01-29-2018, 05:35 PM
(01-29-2018, 04:26 PM)VLJ_imp Wrote: If it turns out that the reports were wrong, and the only changes made to the '17 were in fact the shorter inlet tracts and exhaust system, and those two small changes somehow made my bike feel and sound that much different from Eric's '14, well, who cares how Honda did it, right? All that matters is that they did it, and one blip of my throttle was all it took for me to realize that the '17 not only sounded but also felt very different from the '14, and quite a bit cooler.
As for the possibility of erroneous info popping up in various reviews, sure, it's entirely possible, but the reviewer in the link I provided who stated that the '17's combustion chamber and fins were altered to help Honda meet the new Euro 4 requirements was mighty specific with those particular bits of reportage. Either someone at Honda fed him that info or he made it up out of thin air, and the latter seems wildly unlikely.
I get it, my Staintune has the [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12089&pid=194255#pid194255]same effect.
Some have reported around here that based on what they read the 2017 has more torque and power down low and has less up top than the previous models. That didn't make sense to me (I thought Honda might have headed in the opposite direction), but maybe there's something to that after all. Like I've said from very early on, these bikes are mostly for show (I bought mine primarily for the looks, and I'm not sure Honda would still be selling them if they weren't so beautiful to look at). The fact that they are actually great motorcycles with a little bit of git up 'n go is just the icing on the cake for me.