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Honda X-ADV
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24-04-2019 6:36am#1What's your thoughts on the Honda X-ADV?
Is it a bike or scooter or a bit of both?
Same 750cc engine that's in the nc750x and all the other NC bikes.
Only comes in DCT which I like anyway.
It should keep up with most machines on the twisties, well apart from the 200bhp super bikes.
where is the closest petrol station
I think it's cool. Maybe in a few years when they are cheaper but not at around 8k1
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airhead_eire wrote: »Oi ! What's wrong with step thru's ?!
absolutely nothing while they ain't pretending to be something else:pac: 0 -
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I won't finance bikes and can't afford one new, so the only way I'll ever own one of them (and I perhaps would) is second hand. But the though of a DCT trans issue scares the crap out of me as a potential non warrenty owner.
I'll stick with my venerable 17yo caponord for the time being. I've ironed out it's many foibles and is a great performer that owes me nothing.
Put up a pic of the @ to lure me:)
Why do you like having an auto? What's the appeal in using one other than in traffic?
First off, my left hand was killing me with arthritis and other issues, and I do a lot of low speed riding, including on my H-D. ( I can hear the jokes already, lol....)
Surgery is not viable, so I needed to relieve it, and I have an old (dead) Aprilia 500 scooter, so the concept of a 'big bike' without clutch is not alien to me. And, after 12 yrs on the H-D, I wanted to try something else - and auto it had to be. I tried an FJR and didn't like that - it's neither one thing nor the other imho, and if I'm spending that much, I though I'd go for the best. DCT it was to be, and I was open to which bike tbh, but eventually settled on the AT as they're eminently saleable, whereas the Crosstourer might not be, later....
So, I went to the NEC bike show and test rode one. I never had any doubt that out on the open road it would work: but I really wanted to know could you go slow on it: like trials riding, filtering, etc. That test ride proved to me it could, and well.
So I got one :eek:
It's uncanny how clever it is. It does not 'creep' in gear, with hands off the controls or brakes. In 'D' it just sits there. Give it the whiff of throttle and you can feel the (conventional) clutch bite and off she goes, at walking pace or less, if you like. It has full drive response and engine braking, just like a 'manual' bike - the 'box is a std 6-speed bike box as you're used to.
Up and down changes are better than any autoshifter/blipper you've ever tried: it's uncannily smooth. I have a Renault car with the same tech, and VW/Audi call theirs DSG. Invented by Porsche/Audi back in the '80's for motorsport.
In normal road use and even fast road use, it's better at gearchanges then (we) are, so you just ride better. It blips the throttle between downchanges in Sports mode - and hangs on longer on the upshift in Sports mode too
Other cool thing is, if off road........you can't stall it.
I'd actually struggle to ever to back to manual now tbh
Any more questions, fire away.Ode To The Motorist
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Not my one in her defence lol, shes whipped into reliability and if ridden in anger would show the @ a clean pair of heels on tar I'd say.I think you have more to worry about with a Capo than I'll ever have with DCT ! :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:
The DCT box is a traditional 6-speed box: it's the clutch that's the fancy part.
A standard capo?... ehh yep, its a bit of a different proposition alright, no argument there:pac::eek:First off, my left hand was killing me with arthritis and other issues, and I do a lot of low speed riding, including on my H-D. ( I can hear the jokes already, lol....)
Surgery is not viable, so I needed to relieve it, and I have an old (dead) Aprilia 500 scooter, so the concept of a 'big bike' without clutch is not alien to me. And, after 12 yrs on the H-D, I wanted to try something else - and auto it had to be. I tried an FJR and didn't like that - it's neither one thing nor the other imho, and if I'm spending that much, I though I'd go for the best. DCT it was to be, and I was open to which bike tbh, but eventually settled on the AT as they're eminently saleable, whereas the Crosstourer might not be, later....
So, I went to the NEC bike show and test rode one. I never had any doubt that out on the open road it would work: but I really wanted to know could you go slow on it: like trials riding, filtering, etc. That test ride proved to me it could, and well.
So I got one :eek:
It's uncanny how clever it is. It does not 'creep' in gear, with hands off the controls or brakes. In 'D' it just sits there. Give it the whiff of throttle and you can feel the (conventional) clutch bite and off she goes, at walking pace or less, if you like. It has full drive response and engine braking, just like a 'manual' bike - the 'box is a std 6-speed bike box as you're used to.
Up and down changes are better than any autoshifter/blipper you've ever tried: it's uncannily smooth. I have a Renault car with the same tech, and VW/Audi call theirs DSG. Invented by Porsche/Audi back in the '80's for motorsport.
In normal road use and even fast road use, it's better at gearchanges then (we) are, so you just ride better. It blips the throttle between downchanges in Sports mode - and hangs on longer on the upshift in Sports mode too
Other cool thing is, if off road........you can't stall it.
I'd actually struggle to ever to back to manual now tbh
Any more questions, fire away.
Very sweet machine, must blag a go of one off a dealer at some stage. If I had the monzo to buy one outright without it pinching the wallet I'd be tempted.
Read what you wrote a couple times there and tbh it's just so alien a concept it seems a solution looking for a problem that ain't there.
In saying that, if I were to ride it that last sentence might be moot. You don't seem prone to confirmation bias based on other bikes not meeting your requirements. Lot of lads swear by whatever bike they currently own.... because they currently own it.
Yeah I'd have to try one to see as at the mo I just don't get it but I accept that may just be because I haven't tried it.
Is there additional specialist servicing for the clutch and associated works? Do the dct give grief and is software an issue with them? I suppose its these issues which scare me.
What's the wind protection like? Are you sat on or in it?
Frontal area looks similar to my old ktm 990 adventure which didn't compare to the old bus for protection.0 -
First off, my left hand was killing me with arthritis and other issues, and I do a lot of low speed riding, including on my H-D. ( I can hear the jokes already, lol....)
Surgery is not viable, so I needed to relieve it, and I have an old (dead) Aprilia 500 scooter, so the concept of a 'big bike' without clutch is not alien to me. And, after 12 yrs on the H-D, I wanted to try something else - and auto it had to be. I tried an FJR and didn't like that - it's neither one thing nor the other imho, and if I'm spending that much, I though I'd go for the best. DCT it was to be, and I was open to which bike tbh, but eventually settled on the AT as they're eminently saleable, whereas the Crosstourer might not be, later....
So, I went to the NEC bike show and test rode one. I never had any doubt that out on the open road it would work: but I really wanted to know could you go slow on it: like trials riding, filtering, etc. That test ride proved to me it could, and well.
So I got one :eek:
It's uncanny how clever it is. It does not 'creep' in gear, with hands off the controls or brakes. In 'D' it just sits there. Give it the whiff of throttle and you can feel the (conventional) clutch bite and off she goes, at walking pace or less, if you like. It has full drive response and engine braking, just like a 'manual' bike - the 'box is a std 6-speed bike box as you're used to.
Up and down changes are better than any autoshifter/blipper you've ever tried: it's uncannily smooth. I have a Renault car with the same tech, and VW/Audi call theirs DSG. Invented by Porsche/Audi back in the '80's for motorsport.
In normal road use and even fast road use, it's better at gearchanges then (we) are, so you just ride better. It blips the throttle between downchanges in Sports mode - and hangs on longer on the upshift in Sports mode too
Other cool thing is, if off road........you can't stall it.
I'd actually struggle to ever to back to manual now tbh
Any more questions, fire away.
@galwaytt , Thanks for posting ,that is a beauty, I even like the colour.0 -
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