goodvibes
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Hello all,
I've just finished a modified four corners trip that ended up at just shy of 16,000 miles. The modified part was that I rode west to east through Canada, going as far north as I could find roads, and ending in St John's Newfoundland before going south through the Maritime Provinces before heading south to Key West, Florida. After that it was westbound to San Diego and then north up the west coast to my home in Port Townsend, Washington. It was a great trip and many of you have done something similar.
The point of this post is to talk about something that I found could have made the journey so very much more relaxing--cruise control. Having purchased the NC about a year and a half ago I am sold on the automatic transmission and see no reason to go back to manual shifting. But now, with the type of journeying that I enjoy doing, cruise control would make life much easier. Call me lazy if you wish, but there is just no way to avoid long stretches of pavement here in the USA, or for that matter, Canada. The dilemma is that to get cruise control at the moment I would have to purchase a Triumph Tiger 800cc variant, or a BMW 1200 variant, or some other larger bike, which I am reluctant to do as I enjoy riding roads like the Trans Labrador Highway, which has hundreds of miles of interesting gravel road (I would not be using the cruise control on the gravel, of course). Honda is working diligently on the new Africa Twin, which interests me greatly and I would purchase the automatic transmission model of it. However, it will be a very difficult choice for me to choose the automatic transmission on the Africa Twin over the cruise control on the manual shift Triumph 800 XCx, or XRx. It would be great if Honda would offer cruise control with the automatic version of the new Africa Twin.
Why not?
I've just finished a modified four corners trip that ended up at just shy of 16,000 miles. The modified part was that I rode west to east through Canada, going as far north as I could find roads, and ending in St John's Newfoundland before going south through the Maritime Provinces before heading south to Key West, Florida. After that it was westbound to San Diego and then north up the west coast to my home in Port Townsend, Washington. It was a great trip and many of you have done something similar.
The point of this post is to talk about something that I found could have made the journey so very much more relaxing--cruise control. Having purchased the NC about a year and a half ago I am sold on the automatic transmission and see no reason to go back to manual shifting. But now, with the type of journeying that I enjoy doing, cruise control would make life much easier. Call me lazy if you wish, but there is just no way to avoid long stretches of pavement here in the USA, or for that matter, Canada. The dilemma is that to get cruise control at the moment I would have to purchase a Triumph Tiger 800cc variant, or a BMW 1200 variant, or some other larger bike, which I am reluctant to do as I enjoy riding roads like the Trans Labrador Highway, which has hundreds of miles of interesting gravel road (I would not be using the cruise control on the gravel, of course). Honda is working diligently on the new Africa Twin, which interests me greatly and I would purchase the automatic transmission model of it. However, it will be a very difficult choice for me to choose the automatic transmission on the Africa Twin over the cruise control on the manual shift Triumph 800 XCx, or XRx. It would be great if Honda would offer cruise control with the automatic version of the new Africa Twin.
Why not?