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#11 Unread post by HYPERR »

High_Side wrote: but the range is more than enough considering that it gets great mileage.
That mileage is kind of bogus, it is only obtained at a constant 60kmph; we were talking about that on another thread here at TMW. I'm sure the real mileage will be something around low to high 40 mpg.
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HYPERR wrote:
High_Side wrote: but the range is more than enough considering that it gets great mileage.
That mileage is kind of bogus, it is only obtained at a constant 60kmph; we were talking about that on another thread here at TMW. I'm sure the real mileage will be something around low to high 40 mpg.
I dunno - to me that still adds up to 175 miles or better of range using your " real world" figures. As a guy who toured on a VTR1000 for 11 years getting 175 km to the tank, I would have loved this kind of range....

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#13 Unread post by totalmotorcycle »

About the milage. It seems the engine was tuned to be less stressed and thus that is why Honda is getting such great gas milage also the less stressed engine will last forever as well.

There is something great to be said about an engine like that.

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#14 Unread post by William »

I like it. I liked the air-cooled inline fours before I even owned my first motorcycle. If they bring it here, I might even sell my '82 Suzuki GS1100GL so I can have the downpayent to buy one.
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#15 Unread post by totalmotorcycle »

I voted: Awesome.

What a really, really cool Retro bike and why didn't Honda make something just like this years ago? No matter, the market is ripe with bikers like myself (and older) who enjoy a classy retro where power isn't as important as style and looks. The Honda designers really thought this one out and I'm actually quite surprised it wasn't launched in North America first rather than Japan/Australia/Europe. Didn't the first CB750K's come to the USA first?

Speaking of which, why didn't they use a 750cc engine and really match the CB750K rather than an 1100cc? Kinda strange if you ask me, but it still looks killer IMO and sub-100hp is just fine with me. Now if Honda can get the bike around $10k get ready for a retro resurgence!

....about the MPG, pretty darn amazing! If it truly gets that great MPG then no need at all for a huge tank.

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totalmotorcycle wrote:I voted: Awesome.

What a really, really cool Retro bike and why didn't Honda make something just like this years ago?
Hehe - like maybe back in 1969?

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High_Side wrote:
totalmotorcycle wrote:I voted: Awesome.

What a really, really cool Retro bike and why didn't Honda make something just like this years ago?
Hehe - like maybe back in 1969?
True dat!

In fact, wouldn't it be cool to see more retro bikes like a REAL Kawasaki Z (yes, like the Z1 or Z900), even a GPz, a GS750 or even a Yamaha Seca 650R (oh please) come up again? What about a turbo 500cc? :drool:

In fact, I think Suzuki should have made a GS750E from the 2000+ GS500E they had rather than discontinue it, wouldn't that be cool? Well, I guess Andrea's GSX750Y was the closest to we will get to that! viewtopic.php?t=38396

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totalmotorcycle wrote:
In fact, wouldn't it be cool to see more retro bikes like a REAL Kawasaki Z (yes, like the Z1 or Z900),
They tried it with the Zephyr 1100 which is one of the nicest retro bikes to date. Too bad that it was overpriced and they hardly sold any of them....

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High_Side wrote:
totalmotorcycle wrote:
In fact, wouldn't it be cool to see more retro bikes like a REAL Kawasaki Z (yes, like the Z1 or Z900),
They tried it with the Zephyr 1100 which is one of the nicest retro bikes to date. Too bad that it was overpriced and they hardly sold any of them....
Funny enough I'm doing a 41 year "ultimate guide to the Z" and the Zephyr series of course is in there. In fact, I looked at buying a 1993 Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 which the seller said the "only one in Alberta". It was a good series but by the time the Zephyr's rolled into the show room Kawasaki's "Z" wasn't more than a shadow of the original Z concept and as you said, overpriced too. Things started falling apart for the "Z" as the top of the line sport engine when Kawasaki introduced the GPz's.

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#20 Unread post by sapaul »

While I personally like the look of the bike, I think they sat around the boardroom and said, hey we need a retro to compete with all the other retro's out there, lets go bigger and better. For this I voted "fail" i think they could have easily produced a far better bike in the 750 class. Modern tech would have given it everything it needed with a smaller price tag and just as much performance. Plus the added "I would rather ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow"

I think they would have had bigger sales and a bigger following with a smaller CC bike.

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