melensdad
Well-Known Member
So many people here use their NC700/750x bikes for non-intended purposes. Honda designed these as "commuter" bikes and for that they excel. A 200 mile + range for a commuter bike is plenty. But throw on luggage boxes, camping gear, weight in those boxes, add a touring windshield and the fuel economy drops ... as does the range.The fuel tank size has hashed and rehashed ..........but the unwritten standard is 200 miles before “reserve”. The NC can do that. Think range not tank size.
Big ADV bike, touring and sport touring bikes can often do 300 miles while many sport bikes or duel sport often don’t make 150 miles. VFR1200x will do 200 miles using 4.5 gallons of a 5.7 tank.
Now it could be suggested that those of us who modify our bikes with aluminum or plastic boxes and big pieces of polycarbonate should choose a different bike, but there are compelling reasons why we chose the NC7--x and its not unreasonable to WISH for something like a bigger fuel tank. Doubt that will ever be built into the bike unless there is a complete re-design.
Honda gave us a mild-mannered adventure bike. Exactly what many of us were looking for. But as with hard core adventure bikes, we modify them and wish for more. Given the number of forum members carrying extra fuel in MSR bottles on these bikes I suspect that we will never see the end to the beating death of this dead horse.