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Originally Posted by floyd
Hi all, took a ride out to the Honda dealers today.
Ok not much use off the tarmac BUT.
Looking over the new adventure styled bikes. Crossrunner, Crosstourer and NC700.
Well what impressed me most was the NC700. Ok the bigger bikeshad a better spec sheet, but in some ways the smaller bike had better specs. Lower weight, 70 - 80 mpg when ridden gently. Real world performance. high torque.
The crucial appeal though is the under £6000 price tag the c runner £9000 roughly. The c tourer £eek.
There was also a Triumph xc800 a 1200 explorer.
Booked myself in for a test ride tomorrow.
Will let you know my thoughts.
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Just thought I would add the bit below about the fuel economy side of things (cut and pasted from my post about the 650GS).
It would be good to think that real life reports about the NC700 will appear, in due course, in the Honda tech forum.
I too had a quick look at these bikes in a dealers' showroom a few days ago; the NC700 has to be much better value for money than their bigger offerings, assuming that you aren't too bothered about carrying a pillion as a routine (based on the overall size of the bike and the size of the pillion seat).
You could buy two NC700s and have cash to spare for the travelling compared with the price of the crosstourer.
The new BMW Sertao gets a write up in a UK bike magazine; they are running long termish economy tests of lots of bikes over a period of time; so far, the new Sertao (the replacement for the Dakar) has come out on top with a figure of 76.0 MPG (that's UK gallons).
As far as I know this is exactly the same twin spark engine that was fitted in the F series single cyl bike.
I get this kind of fuel economy out of my standard 2005 650GS when I don't wring it's neck on the major highways.
In those test, the new Honda NC700X is next best with 75.7 MPG.
Food for thought .
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Dave
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