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2021 NC750x purchased yet?

mudtrack said:
Another delay.
My wife's 2021 ships Aug 3 with possible arrival Aug 5.
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In the same boat. Put in an pre-order as soon as it was available in early March. Original delivery date was targeted for early June. Was scheduled for a few times for shipment (Stage 3 - delivery from the warehouse to the dealer) but since the bike did not arrive at the warehouse (or potentially allocated elsewhere), it was pushed to late June, then early July and now "scheduled" for shipment in 2 weeks (I think they mentioned a bridge available to buy in Brooklyn as well - lol).
I have been through all stages so far - shock, frustration, anger and now apathy. Stopped thinking about the 'ship date' since it bears no weight. When it arrives, it arrives and as it is essentially vaporware at the moment. As the old saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - especially with the global shipping issues. Since I live in the Northeast, will put the bike into storage almost as soon as I get it at this rate. :rolleyes:
 
mudtrack said:
She is both flinging arrows at her target, and is also sketching designs for our dream house at our beach property that we own on the Washington Coast.
Of course the beach house will have a motorcycle garage at ground level and living space above looking toward the surf in the West.
Seriously. This has been a dream of ours for 15 years since buying our "muddy road" to our beach paradise.
She also has her archery set-up at the beach. I also keep my 4 surfboards in a shipping container there. She boogie boards and I (try to) surf.
Cancer has put things into perspective.
My wife will wait an extra 2 or 3 weeks for her motorcycle as we plan our downsize from our 3-story 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom house in the Seattle area.
Our plan is to live mortgage free on our retirement income at our beach place in a nice newly constructed 800 square foot house perched on top of a 2-motorcycle and 1 car garage.
When she gets her bike, we will definitely tour the Washington and Oregon coast on our bikes before the rainy season.
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Wonderful plan!! We went from 4500 SF to 1800 on one floor...don't miss steps the older I get... but I have a 4K shop and hanger for toys. I grew up on a lake and we had a place near Tarpon Springs on the gulf in FL so I'm happy with the mountains now. I escaped most traffic so I don't go near Seattle or that area but need to get back to Southern WA coast and into OR and Northern CA. I need to finish the Rt 66 ride from NV to the CA coast the Coast highway North and back home...maybe in Oct before the snow flies and it falls into the ocean.

Best to your wife and I know she will enjoy that bike when it arrives!!
 
the Ferret said:
Those are some serious tires mudtrack lol
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TKC 80 front
Motoz Tractionator GPS rear on my V-Strom

If our beach road is as muddy as usual when my wife and I plan to ride there with her new NC750 (one month from now), we will mount the TKC 80 front and TKC 70 Rocks that we pre-purchased for her bike.
 
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mudtrack said:
TKC 80 front
Motoz Tractionator GPS rear on my V-Strom

If our beach road is as muddy as usual when my wife and I plan to ride there with her new NC750 (one month from now), we will mount the TKC 80 front and TKC 70 Rocks that we pre-purchased for her bike.
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That should work for her. The road sounds pretty slick. The bike is pretty low CG and that can help a lot but mud is mud.
 
I did about 90 miles today over to New Port, WA and back testing the Atlas throttle lock. It worked very well and like any lock you still must tend to them in the hills. It's intuitive to use and releases instantly when I disengage. Pretty happy with it so far and much better than holding the throttle constantly.
 
lowrider said:
That should work for her. The road sounds pretty slick. The bike is pretty low CG and that can help a lot but mud is mud.
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Last year, August 2020, my wife and I rode in heavy rain from Cannon Beach Oregon to our place on the coast near Grayland, WA. She was on her Burgman 400 with its small diameter highway tires. I was on my V-Strom with my TKC80 tires.
No problem for me in the mud.
Her Burgman was laughable. No way for her to stand up on her pegs. No pegs, and a front cockpit to block her knees if she were to attempt to stand. She went down in the mud, of course. The two of us together had a horrible time getting her heavy maxi scooter out of the mud hole that my bike has no problem with.
This explains her wanting a low center of gravity bike with larger-than-scooter tires such as the NC750X, and possibly with TKC80 tires.
DCT, of course.
 
lowrider said:
I did about 90 miles today over to New Port, WA and back testing the Atlas throttle lock. It worked very well and like any lock you still must tend to them in the hills. It's intuitive to use and releases instantly when I disengage. Pretty happy with it so far and much better than holding the throttle constantly.
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One of the reasons I like the Go Cruise so much is that it isn't a throttle lock that uses friction to hold the throttle in one place. It's an adjustable throttle stop and sets a minimum speed on flat ground. When I'm in the hills and the GC is set, I'm free to roll on a little throttle on the uphill side and as the bike approaches the crest of the hill I relax the extra throttle and let the bike settle back onto the Go Cruise setting and don't have to mess with it on the back side of the hill. The bike can overspeed on steep downhills of course. On gentle rolling hills it takes half the micro adjustments, and those aren't adjustments of the device - just a little more gas - out of the equation. Of course nothing works like a real cruise control.
 
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dduelin said:
One of the reasons I like the Go Cruise so much is that it isn't a throttle lock that uses friction to hold the throttle in one place. It's an adjustable throttle stop and sets a minimum speed on flat ground. When I'm in the hills and the GC is set, I'm free to roll on a little throttle on the uphill side and as the bike approaches the crest of the hill I relax the extra throttle and let the bike settle back onto the Go Cruise setting and don't have to mess with it on the back side of the hill. The bike can overspeed on steep downhills of course. On gentle rolling hills it takes half the micro adjustments, and those aren't adjustments of the device - just a little more gas - out of the equation. Of course nothing works like a real cruise control.
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Agree Dave. I bought one and put it on my Bandit and it works as you described. I just wanted to try the Atlas and so far I'm happy with it but that's only a 75 mile chunk of open road to compare.

I have an Audio Vox CCS-100 true cruise control that I bought to put on my ST1300 but #1 son destroyed the bike before I could install it. Anyone tried one of these or something like it? It is operated on engine vacuum and it looks like it is primarily mechanical in nature with just a small module that could do some controlling since I think it attaches to a speedo input. This one is 15 years old so I'm sure there must be more modern ones available. Any thoughts??

I was sorta intrigued by your comments on the distance I can see over the shield. At a steady 60 mph on flat road I see the road about 2/3 of the distance between power poles or roughly 5 segmented yellow stripes in a normal passing zone. That's sitting upright and no slouch which tends to creep into my posture in a short time.

I have a pair of snowmobile goggles I carry in case of heavy rain (none found in ID in summer) and I have non-polarized clear lens in them and found the clear lens made a big difference in how I can see thru the tined shield...much better than the polarized Ray Bans for sure. Strangely enough, It's not easy to find shatter resistance non-polarized but tinted glasses. I have clear lens in glasses but the tops are clear (no correction) and the bottom has correction for 40" inches so I can see instruments in airplanes without wearing reading glasses which I use primarily for night time flight which I don't do much anymore. I don't think these are shatter resistant. Anyway...if anyone has the same problem I think clear glasses may be the answer rather than dark polarized lens when looking thru a tinted shield in shadows...YMMV, Off to ride 50 miles of forest service roads in the Pioneer.
 
lowrider said:
Agree Dave. I bought one and put it on my Bandit and it works as you described. I just wanted to try the Atlas and so far I'm happy with it but that's only a 75 mile chunk of open road to compare.

I have an Audio Vox CCS-100 true cruise control that I bought to put on my ST1300 but #1 son destroyed the bike before I could install it. Anyone tried one of these or something like it? It is operated on engine vacuum and it looks like it is primarily mechanical in nature with just a small module that could do some controlling since I think it attaches to a speedo input. This one is 15 years old so I'm sure there must be more modern ones available. Any thoughts??

I was sorta intrigued by your comments on the distance I can see over the shield. At a steady 60 mph on flat road I see the road about 2/3 of the distance between power poles or roughly 5 segmented yellow stripes in a normal passing zone. That's sitting upright and no slouch which tends to creep into my posture in a short time.

I have a pair of snowmobile goggles I carry in case of heavy rain (none found in ID in summer) and I have non-polarized clear lens in them and found the clear lens made a big difference in how I can see thru the tined shield...much better than the polarized Ray Bans for sure. Strangely enough, It's not easy to find shatter resistance non-polarized but tinted glasses. I have clear lens in glasses but the tops are clear (no correction) and the bottom has correction for 40" inches so I can see instruments in airplanes without wearing reading glasses which I use primarily for night time flight which I don't do much anymore. I don't think these are shatter resistant. Anyway...if anyone has the same problem I think clear glasses may be the answer rather than dark polarized lens when looking thru a tinted shield in shadows...YMMV, Off to ride 50 miles of forest service roads in the Pioneer.
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Madstad recommends the top edge of the shield be about the height between the top of the upper lip and the underside of the nose. At this height the sight line to intersect with the ground is probably less than 30 feet. For me it's closer to 20 feet. I think the DOT and most states' standard for painted stripes or dashes is 10 feet long so I guess 30 feet out is about 1.5 stripes counting the unpainted 10 feet in between. Of course you like the shield higher then the distance to ground will be further out. 5 dashes is 100 feet out. That's what, 1.14 seconds at 60 mph? That would make me uncomfortable as well not being able to see the ground for that kind of distance, I try and keep my sight lines open a minimum 2 seconds and in traffic much further out, not letting a threat enter my time bubble if I can help it. Using time always makes the bubble appropriate to the speed - 60 mph/2 seconds is a bubble of 176 feet and shrinks to 88 feet at 30 mph.

When I was flying I was much younger and not yet even in glasses. I used those heavy old glass lens Ray Ban Aviators from the base exchange. When I started riding again in 2005 I was already in bifocals which required a clear pair and a tinted pair for riding. In bifocals that was expensive. It was a revelation to buy my first helmet with a drop-down sun shade that meant I could ride in single pair of clear glasses all the time and just drop or raise the sun shade as necessary. When riding in forested areas or around mountain sides the shadows come and go and I can always shade as needed or see clear. Shoei face shields are polarized so I quickly found out that polarized sunglasses behind a Shoei shield removes the polarization. Clear glasses through a polarized clear face shield create distortions of hue and can be distracting but I got used to it - our brains are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made in order to learn to ignore the hue distortions.
 
My wife and I want to say hello to our Honda dealer in Everett, Washington.
Powersports.
HELLO, are you still there?
So many other people have their new 2021 NC750X. What is going on?
Everett, close to international shipping from Japan being received in nearby Seattle..
What is taking so long?
Our trade is losing value waiting and waiting.
 
mudtrack said:
My wife and I want to say hello to our Honda dealer in Everett, Washington.
Powersports.
HELLO, are you still there?
So many other people have their new 2021 NC750X. What is going on?
Everett, close to international shipping from Japan being received in nearby Seattle..
What is taking so long?
Our trade is losing value waiting and waiting.
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South Sound Honda in Olympia had a manual and dct in stock a few weeks ago. Ads are still up on Craigslist.
 
mudtrack said:
My wife and I want to say hello to our Honda dealer in Everett, Washington.
Powersports.
HELLO, are you still there?
So many other people have their new 2021 NC750X. What is going on?
Everett, close to international shipping from Japan being received in nearby Seattle..
What is taking so long?
Our trade is losing value waiting and waiting.
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Half the summer is over now for a lot of people. April, May, June and half of July.

Half of July August Sept and October is all remaining for most in the northern half of the country (other than us die hards)

Hopefully soon mudtrack
 
the Ferret said:
Half the summer is over now for a lot of people. April, May, June and half of July.

Half of July August Sept and October is all remaining for most in the northern half of the country (other than us die hards)

Hopefully soon mudtrack
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The copilot and I were just discussing several trips and I want to squeeze in the last segment of Rt 66 from Flagstaff to the coast and back up the OR coast....10 day trip that just won't fit into the schedule...my bet is it will be there next Spring.

I spent some time in Portugal and they used ferrets to catch rabbits. Interesting handle!!
 
lowrider said:
The copilot and I were just discussing several trips and I want to squeeze in the last segment of Rt 66 from Flagstaff to the coast and back up the OR coast....10 day trip that just won't fit into the schedule...my bet is it will be there next Spring.

I spent some time in Portugal and they used ferrets to catch rabbits. Interesting handle!!
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My wife and I "hope" to ride the Washington State Olympic Peninsula and the Oregon coast in late August IF she gets her new 2021 by then.
 
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