bnolsen
New Member
This spring I started consistently riding to work and have been exclusively riding around this summer. I put almost 3000k miles on a 2007 kawasaki ninja 250. I commute mostly on highways, leave about 0500 and the highway speeds at that time aren't nice to that 250, and I hate high revving it.
I've been looking at craigslist for vstrom's and versys's and finally last weekend suzuki had a demo day where I got to test ride some vstroms and an sv650.
The vstrom 650 is a nice motorcycle. But I'm looking around yet...I notice Honda having major incentives on the nc700x and the prices on showroom 2015's are pretty amazing, enough to actually buy one for barely more than the insane prices people are asking for the others used. Found a dealer not far from work where they'll let me ride one, might be I buy it (then figure out how to get it home).
The big thing I hope to find when I test ride is how well the nc700x handles 80+ highway, especially for vibration and if there's any gotchas in the power band. As weak as that ninja 250 is, it's extremely smooth across the whole power band regardless of how fast it's (not) going or how much oil it's burning running 10+.
Man I wish it were easier to test ride stuff. Honda and Kawi never have demo days around here and I would like to at least take a versys for a spin, just to know how one rides.
I've been looking at craigslist for vstrom's and versys's and finally last weekend suzuki had a demo day where I got to test ride some vstroms and an sv650.
The vstrom 650 is a nice motorcycle. But I'm looking around yet...I notice Honda having major incentives on the nc700x and the prices on showroom 2015's are pretty amazing, enough to actually buy one for barely more than the insane prices people are asking for the others used. Found a dealer not far from work where they'll let me ride one, might be I buy it (then figure out how to get it home).
The big thing I hope to find when I test ride is how well the nc700x handles 80+ highway, especially for vibration and if there's any gotchas in the power band. As weak as that ninja 250 is, it's extremely smooth across the whole power band regardless of how fast it's (not) going or how much oil it's burning running 10+.
Man I wish it were easier to test ride stuff. Honda and Kawi never have demo days around here and I would like to at least take a versys for a spin, just to know how one rides.
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