As an aside, I am going to buy a Honda cb500x later this year (after I see some resolution of the current stock market's troubles). I live in a small town with lots of beautiful dirt roads in the countryside and want to ride them.
Before settling on the cb500x, I considered the KLR 650 and the Husqvarna Svartpilen 401. The love the KLR, but price and the thermobob/doohickey issues turned me off. The Svartpilen Husky is a beautiful little bike for the right price, but a little too small for riding a couple of 100 miles on highway (if I decided to spend the day at the beach).
I sub to Fortnine as well. Great channel.
I recently bought a new bike and I looked at a bunch of different ones, including a Fat Bob.
While I have some Harley friends, I’m not wed to a look or some kind of bike culture. I wanted something fun to ride.
I bought a Kawi Z900. It has Torque in gobbs starting at around 4000 and it pulls hard. It’s just fun to ride. I’m not into high speed, but I love acceleration and twisty roads, this bike does both very well.
So if it takes not having pushrods and adding water cooling, it works for me.
One of my older street bikes was air cooled and I’ve still got a fin shaped brand on my right calf where I cooked it on the jug. I guess I shouldn’t have been wearing shorts at the time ;)
“I considered the KLR 650 and the Husqvarna Svartpilen 401. The love the KLR, but price and the thermobob/doohickey issues turned me off. “
I had a Vulcan and then bought a KLR. I loved the KLR so much I sold the Vulcan and bought goodies for the KLR. Great in the mountains.
“I subscribe to Fortnine. Extremely informative videos on bikes.”
Ryan has a background in Physics, so he explains the science in a friendly way. The other dude I sub to is Bikes n beards aka STR etc (he has other channels). I know someone who is close to him and he’s a devout Christian supposedly.
“Before settling on the cb500x”
Yeah, Id got for that. I’m looking around but not really replacing my Yamaha R3. My bud runs a used car dealership and it’s understandable to jack the prices during the summer but he feels the market will cool down around October when kids are back in school.