Optimistic sellers

[Fresh Oats]

Ok when I was a teenager I had some pretty silly ideas about what was a good bike. I was wrong.

Blag a ride on something plain Jane but made near this century like an SV650 or even something nice and you will lose interest in CXs pretty quick. Styling is subjective but riding bikes should be for fun not just posing.

Sure but I have owned bikes in the past that were brand new. Had a ninja for a couple years before it got stolen. I rode that thing 550km's between Wellington and Hamilton 6 times a year for 3 years.
Even though that was a brand new, modern sports bike, I can comfortably say that the 1992 Yamaha I currently own is far more comfortable to ride. The gear ratios are better, the ride is smoother and my ass doesn't feel like fire after a hundred k's. I much prefer riding this old thing than my ninja, even though the ninja had decent brakes whereas the brakes on this thing are sluggish and god awful. Obviously neither is a CX but my point is that just because something's modern doesn't mean it's necessarily better to ride. I mean you are right, it could be god awful and I could hate riding it. I've never ridden one (because who has a spare CX500 laying around they're gonna let me have a go on? noone) so I don't know. But I'd already be modifying it anyway, it would just mean the first thing that gets changed out would be the shocks.

Son, you need a Harley

Eww god no.

[Laava]

Son, you need a Harley

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Lis...?id=1718132593

[YellowDog]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Lis...?id=1718132593

Fuksake man

Sometimes, taking a rifle and shooting people is OK

[Drew]

Eww god no.

Well since they're pretty much the most coveted 'tracker' ever, you're not being very charitable.

Never has a CX ever looked as cool as this.

[sidecar bob]

Well since they're pretty much the most coveted 'tracker' ever, you're not being very charitable.

Never has a CX ever looked as cool as this.

Or this
http://www.thedrive.com/motorcycles/...riving-in-2019
Cool thing is you can get in a line to buy one of these & then ride it on the road.
Unlike a genuine XR750

[F5 Dave]

The GPX250 was sold in the late 80s as a cheap learner bike dressed up to ape it's larger Sportbike siblings. Kawasaki has been rehashing the concept for the last 30 years with a facelift/name change, slight bore job, injection etc. And some Ninja stickers. Wow.

While everyone was hooking around on 2 Strokes or 550 4 cylinders Honda marketed the CX to the
discerning mature rider. i.e yer Dad. Or his Dad. Next owner was a courier. They were disposable and unloved.


. . . It's like I'm having to tell you Transvestites aren't the only game in town if you want to lose your viginity.

[Ocean1]

Or this
http://www.thedrive.com/motorcycles/...riving-in-2019
Cool thing is you can get in a line to buy one of these & then ride it on the road.
Unlike a genuine XR750

Very nice. Too much overt carbon though, and it's missing a front disc. And USD forks.

[Voltaire]

The boys back at Mandello Del Lario might get their noses out of joint about that "unique cylinder config" remark.

Italians....the Chinese of the 70's

[F5 Dave]

Very nice. Too much overt carbon though, and it's missing a front disc. And USD forks.

Who was that? Skidmark who started that USD, I'll call it a discussion, but it was classic early KB lore.

[HenryDorsetCase]

. . . It's like I'm having to tell you Transvestites aren't the only game in town if you want to lose your viginity.

too late!

AND no ragrets!

[HenryDorsetCase]

Very nice. Too much overt carbon though, and it's missing a front disc. And USD forks.

It gives me totes inapprops trouser feelings. I want to know about availability and price and weight. But I adore it.

[pritch]

In the event someone was actually lusting after a cafe racer with sticky out cylinders this'd be more like it. But nah, it hasn't got any exhaust tape...

[Ocean1]

It gives me totes inapprops trouser feelings. I want to know about availability and price and weight. But I adore it.

Don't get some of it. Uses the current Scout engine but I'm not sure how much they've tweaked it. Without looking it appears to be a very long stroke. "Over 100HP" doesn't sound promising from 1200cc, but any V2 that size is a torque monster, just have to stretch it out a bit....

Good move to label it a "flat tracker" instead of a "scrambler" with that sump so exposed

[Ocean1]

In the event someone was actually lusting after a cafe racer with sticky out cylinders this'd be more like it. But nah, it hasn't got any exhaust tape...

The fairing is hideous. And the headlights in front of the headlights are ridiculous.

Nice zorsts though.

[Honest Andy]

Jeez listen to you old cunts, I know the CXs were about as stylish as a comb-over but hey, who knows, maybe their time has finally come, and this brave new hipster world is ready for a heavy underpowered bloated CX with a cool haircut!

And if it ends up half-baked and never finished who will mind?