cyrano138
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Read through seven pages of a funny thread on a vstrom forum here. Some of them had really reasonable opinions about the NC, and some of them seemed downright butthurt that it was picked for some award. Of course no one in the latter group had ridden one. Nothing better than hearing about how the NC is 'basically a scooter'. What does that even mean? I've never had to so much as down shift to zip around a car even on the interstate when everyone's routinely doing between 75 and 85 mph.
Anyway that took me to what I think is a mostly decent review of the bike here if you haven't read it already. I will say that I feel for all these long-time motorbike riders who are apparently unable to shift before 15k rpm's and keep haplessly bouncing off the rev limiter which, as a lowly cage-trained driver (I will never refer to a car as a cage without irony by the way), I have yet to hit in 1200 miles of riding on the nc700x. That part of the review kind of irritated me--it was like listening to high school kids talk about how hard math is. No offense. It made me appreciate how reasonable everybody on this forum seems compared to a few of the others.
Also, at one point in the review the first author remarks that he doesn't think it will cruise for very long at much more than 93 mph. 93 mph! Who would consider that a deal-breaker on a motorcycle? Is that how fast I'm supposed to be going? Because I'm pretty sure I'd be dead already if I tried it.
Anyway that took me to what I think is a mostly decent review of the bike here if you haven't read it already. I will say that I feel for all these long-time motorbike riders who are apparently unable to shift before 15k rpm's and keep haplessly bouncing off the rev limiter which, as a lowly cage-trained driver (I will never refer to a car as a cage without irony by the way), I have yet to hit in 1200 miles of riding on the nc700x. That part of the review kind of irritated me--it was like listening to high school kids talk about how hard math is. No offense. It made me appreciate how reasonable everybody on this forum seems compared to a few of the others.
Also, at one point in the review the first author remarks that he doesn't think it will cruise for very long at much more than 93 mph. 93 mph! Who would consider that a deal-breaker on a motorcycle? Is that how fast I'm supposed to be going? Because I'm pretty sure I'd be dead already if I tried it.
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