11-19-2016, 10:56 AM
When my FJR1300 battery ran down because I left the ignition on at a dealership event, the sales manager, a friend of mine, rolled my bike into the service area and had them put it on a charger overnight.
He threw me the keys to the only demo they had on the showroom floor, a 2015 CMX250 Rebel, so I could get home. At first, I laughed and joked about how silly I was going to look on it and that I would need to draft a moving van to do the speed limit.
Wrong. That little bike managed almost 80mph on the freeway and handled my 235 lb body weight on it with no trouble at all. Impressive little bike.
Obviously, that old air cooled, carbureted twin needed updating for tighter emissions standards, so they used the existing CB300 and 500 water cooled and fuel injected engines to that effect.
Can't say much about the new bike's styling. They are truly ugly.
He threw me the keys to the only demo they had on the showroom floor, a 2015 CMX250 Rebel, so I could get home. At first, I laughed and joked about how silly I was going to look on it and that I would need to draft a moving van to do the speed limit.
Wrong. That little bike managed almost 80mph on the freeway and handled my 235 lb body weight on it with no trouble at all. Impressive little bike.
Obviously, that old air cooled, carbureted twin needed updating for tighter emissions standards, so they used the existing CB300 and 500 water cooled and fuel injected engines to that effect.
Can't say much about the new bike's styling. They are truly ugly.