06-22-2018, 04:42 PM
(06-22-2018, 01:42 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: I think you'd find the CB to be very smooth at the speeds you prefer to ride. It's a low-revving engine at speed and not frantic. I'm like you -- I avoid freeways and rarely see speeds above 70-75 mph. For this type of riding, the CB is smooth, solid, composed, and completely within its element. I call my '14 the "velvet hammer."
I must offer a different opinion about 4-cylinder BMW's. The earliest K-bikes (from the late-80's) were indeed quite buzzy. And hot. My '98 K1200RS, also a 4-cylinder, is by far the smoothest motorcycle I've ever ridden. Unless you watch the tachometer, you won't know if you're at 3,000 rpm or 6,000 rpm. It's electric-smooth. The CB is a paint-shaker by comparison (though it's absolutely not a paint-shaker!). I haven't ridden the more recent transverse 4-cylinder K1200S or K1300S, but from what I've read, they don't have vibration issues either.
It depends on which bike you will take for comparison.
Out of the 3 I ride, it is the one with the least vibrations.
The Kawa is also very quiet once having left its typical paralleltwin vibration area somewhere between 3.000 and nearly 4.000 revs. The RE rides in its own field, the 'enfield' as a single cylinder, you get used to it and love it or you will not. I do.
The CB starts to develop a bit of buzzing at 4.000revs but nothing that will disturb your peace. I rode the bike several times and for endless hours with speeds of 140km/h and above where it was possible on my long way home on road trips and despite from a raised fuel consumption it was pretty fine. You can't really talk of vibrations that walk on your nerves.
Wisedrum