04-18-2015, 06:04 AM
I personally hope that the retro bike market will keep its place carved out here.
I'm not picky about the air cooled thing, I would be perfectly happy with something liquid cooled, but would love to always have the option to have a really basic naked bike (assuming the CB doesn't outlast me and I some day have to be in the market for another bike). Something along the lines of the 919 would be fine with me, or that CB1300 that a few of us are drooling over but will probably never get. Aesthetically I really don't like the looks of the CB1000R or the current Z1000 very well at all. Though, I suppose that if you have cash for customization, you could strip one of those down and get a basic retro-ish look out of it just as well.
The Triumph Bonnevilles probably won't die out for a very long time so hopefully one of the Japanese makers will always have an eye on competing in that segment one way or another!
At the end of the day, though, I suppose I would cave in and be happy just to have two wheels and an engine that function in a comfortable way for me, and could maybe get past the looks if I really had to.
I'm not picky about the air cooled thing, I would be perfectly happy with something liquid cooled, but would love to always have the option to have a really basic naked bike (assuming the CB doesn't outlast me and I some day have to be in the market for another bike). Something along the lines of the 919 would be fine with me, or that CB1300 that a few of us are drooling over but will probably never get. Aesthetically I really don't like the looks of the CB1000R or the current Z1000 very well at all. Though, I suppose that if you have cash for customization, you could strip one of those down and get a basic retro-ish look out of it just as well.
The Triumph Bonnevilles probably won't die out for a very long time so hopefully one of the Japanese makers will always have an eye on competing in that segment one way or another!
At the end of the day, though, I suppose I would cave in and be happy just to have two wheels and an engine that function in a comfortable way for me, and could maybe get past the looks if I really had to.