Another @ on Tard Me- This time an RD04

[BMWST?]

Linky?

I can't find it

it is listed as a tourer thats why

[buggsubique]

and it's listed as an "African Twin" not "Africa". Pretty good price, centre stand, no bars though. Looks tidy enuff.

and the speedo is in km, not mi.

[Padmei]

thats a righteous looking bike

[buggsubique]

I can see "XRV 750-V" in your title now Padmei.

"...do it, get the perm...your wife will love it..."

[buggsubique]

From memory like a lot of bikes it got heavier and more road, less trail orientated as the years went on.

going by the specs (Haynes, not Wiki!), the later models were about 4-5kg lighter, so I don't know where this "less offroadable" thing comes from. Maybe just that they look more roady and less "dakary"?

[dmc]

Having ridden both the RD04 is better built, the accountants had too much to do with spec'n of the RD07.

[warewolf]

From memory like a lot of bikes it got heavier and ...

Just watch you don't 'ride the spec sheet' with those kind of comments, the specs aren't gospel. Eg Triumph wanted the new 1999 Tiger 885i to appear lighter than the model it replaced. Unfortunately they'd told porkies on the spec sheet by the time the original model made it to production form, so the later year bikes although unchanged had a weight increase on the specs, just so the new 885i's reduced weight would come in under that.

Quoted weights used to have no basis in reality, particularly from the Japs. These days everyone is much better.

Even so, 4-5kg on a 200kg bike is not significant.

[Kokopelli]

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Even so, 4-5kg on a 200kg bike is not significant.

Very true. Often the bikers are less concerned with 4-5 kg's excess weight on themselves, but justify spending big bucks on a new exhaust to save 4-5kg on the bike's weight.

[warewolf]

I recently read it elsewhere stated as: "The hole at the top is bigger than the hole at the bottom, so compensate" - or similar.