Posted by Kevin on July 29, 2009, 4:17 pm
4762-a3c7-2e5f41958b6c@d4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
>
>>
>> I really wanted a Silverwing in the 80s. I had a GS 450S but was
>> reading touring articles and thought a touring bike with luggage and
>> a full fairing was the holy grail. Couldn't afford 2 bikes and
>> didn't want to give up the handling though.
>>
> Wise decision. The old CX500 really didn't have the power to pull a
> Gold Wing fairing (for such it was, minus the lowers) and pannier set.
I had the 650 silverwing and it did ok up to about 65. exelent milage
and decient power low down. large torque over though. not a handeler but
a nice small tourer, wish I had been able to keep it. KB
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Posted by TOG@Toil on July 30, 2009, 3:36 am
> 4762-a3c7-2e5f41958...@d4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:
> >> I really wanted a Silverwing in the 80s. I had a GS 450S but was
> >> reading touring articles and thought a touring bike with luggage and
> >> a full fairing was the holy grail. Couldn't afford 2 bikes and
> >> didn't want to give up the handling though.
> > Wise decision. The old CX500 really didn't have the power to pull a
> > Gold Wing fairing (for such it was, minus the lowers) and pannier set.
> I had the 650 silverwing and it did ok up to about 65. exelent milage
> and decient power low down. large torque over though. not a handeler but
> a nice small tourer, wish I had been able to keep it. KB
My old 250 did OK up to 65mph ;-)
The trouble with the Silver Wing was that it wasn't a small tourer: it
was a bloody big tourer with a small engine in it. That CX engine was
amazing (you'll have gathered by now that I like them!) but in a bike
that size....
Posted by Mortimer Schnerd on July 30, 2009, 7:01 am
TOG@Toil wrote:
> My old 250 did OK up to 65mph ;-)
>
> The trouble with the Silver Wing was that it wasn't a small tourer: it
> was a bloody big tourer with a small engine in it. That CX engine was
> amazing (you'll have gathered by now that I like them!) but in a bike
> that size....
I'd have to agree. My '82 Silverwing (one word) is 30" from the ground
to the seat. I'm 5'7", have a 24" inseam and have had my right hip
replaced. It's a struggle to get on and off (easier getting off) and
I've managed to drop it three times since I bought it last August. Each
time was in either a driveway or a parking lot and my forward speed
varied from 0-1 mph. Once it starts over there's really no stopping it.
I'm built like a fireplug but that thing whips my ass if it decides it
wants to go over.
That being said, it cruises the interstate easily and I don't get blown
all over the road. It's quite happy cruising at 65-75 mph and gets
around 50 mpg on average.
Now that I've had it for a while, I wish it had a 750cc engine instead
of the 500cc currently in it. But it's got a ton of torque and
accelerates sharply if you delay your shifts to about 7k instead of the
more leisurely 4k.
The Silver Wing (two words) is the currently built scooter.
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerd at carolina.rr.com
Posted by The Older Gentleman on July 30, 2009, 2:00 pm
> > Just googled it - dry weight 490lbs, so fully fuelled up and ready to
> > go... Hmm... say 4kg oil, 15kg fuel, all the other odds & sods they
> > add to dry weight calculations like coolant, battery fluid and
> > sometimes even fork oil, say abother kilo. OK, 20kg or 44lbs, so wet
> > weight getting close to 550lbs now.
> >
> > The naked CX was no lightweight. The faired thing was humungous.
> >
>
> apparently your full of it. the 1981 honda 750 weighs 560 lbs wet. that is
> a bare bike. your defination of heavy is goofy. the 650 GL(silverwing) is
> 549 lbs that is full dressed and wet. you don`t know what light is.
Excuse me? What the fuck are you saying? I've taken a posted dry weight,
and come to a damn good guess as to what the wet weight must have been.
And 550lbs for a 650cc bike is *heavy*. I mean, it's light compared to a
1000cc Gold Wing, bloody great Harley, or other lumps, but no way is it
light.
Take Moto Guzzi's V65 Spada - a fully faired 650cc shaft drive V-twin of
the same era. Dry weight under 200kg. Or the 1000cc Spada. Same spec
(I've owned two), and wet weight, ready to roll, the same as the CX650,
despite a 350cc capacity difference.
Take off the blinkers. The CX was a great bike, but it was a heavy old
thing.
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Posted by Kevin on July 30, 2009, 3:15 pm
totallydeadmailbox@yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
>
>> > Just googled it - dry weight 490lbs, so fully fuelled up and ready
>> > to go... Hmm... say 4kg oil, 15kg fuel, all the other odds & sods
>> > they add to dry weight calculations like coolant, battery fluid and
>> > sometimes even fork oil, say abother kilo. OK, 20kg or 44lbs, so
>> > wet weight getting close to 550lbs now.
>> >
>> > The naked CX was no lightweight. The faired thing was humungous.
>> >
>>
>> apparently your full of it. the 1981 honda 750 weighs 560 lbs wet.
>> that is a bare bike. your defination of heavy is goofy. the 650
>> GL(silverwing) is 549 lbs that is full dressed and wet. you don`t
>> know what light is.
>
> Excuse me? What the fuck are you saying? I've taken a posted dry
> weight, and come to a damn good guess as to what the wet weight must
> have been.
>
> And 550lbs for a 650cc bike is *heavy*. I mean, it's light compared to
> a 1000cc Gold Wing, bloody great Harley, or other lumps, but no way is
> it light.
>
> Take Moto Guzzi's V65 Spada - a fully faired 650cc shaft drive V-twin
> of the same era. Dry weight under 200kg. Or the 1000cc Spada. Same
> spec (I've owned two), and wet weight, ready to roll, the same as the
> CX650, despite a 350cc capacity difference.
>
> Take off the blinkers. The CX was a great bike, but it was a heavy old
> thing.
>
>
I looked at every 650 sp there was, 82 to 85 the (only thing I could
find close) and while it was light at 423 lbs not one had a full fairing
or bags and they were a sport bike usually kept pretty light as a
catagory. not really a compareison to a dress touring to my thinking. If
you can find me a pic and specs that I couldn`t I would be interested to
take another look. KB
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>> I really wanted a Silverwing in the 80s. I had a GS 450S but was
>> reading touring articles and thought a touring bike with luggage and
>> a full fairing was the holy grail. Couldn't afford 2 bikes and
>> didn't want to give up the handling though.
>>
> Wise decision. The old CX500 really didn't have the power to pull a
> Gold Wing fairing (for such it was, minus the lowers) and pannier set.