11-23-2021, 11:45 PM
Did a sound check for y'all today. A quiet, winding country road with no traffic at all was repeatedly asking for 4000 - 5000 on the rpm gauge, in 3rd and 4th, the open shield, and cold air helped acute hearing. If anybody thinks that this 2017 EX sounds like a sewing machine ... 
man, ... it doesn't. Honda promised better sound with that newer model, and they delivered. You can go it quiet if you like, and your neighbors will appreciate your nightly returns from the bar, but you can get all the sound you like if that's what you want. Not a brutal Harley sound, instead a deep Honda roar, which beats anything I have heard from a 750 Four - or a Kawa, and it comes with exactly the right vibrations under your skin.
man, ... it doesn't. Honda promised better sound with that newer model, and they delivered. You can go it quiet if you like, and your neighbors will appreciate your nightly returns from the bar, but you can get all the sound you like if that's what you want. Not a brutal Harley sound, instead a deep Honda roar, which beats anything I have heard from a 750 Four - or a Kawa, and it comes with exactly the right vibrations under your skin.