Posted by The Older Gentleman on July 30, 2009, 4:15 pm
> 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.
They *all* had full fairings. The 650 didn't come with panniers - some
versions of the 1000 Spada did.
And the SP was never a sports bike. I mean, it had the same frame as the
sportier Guzzis, but still....
Kick your Google mojo because it ain't working.
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Posted by Kevin on July 30, 2009, 3:27 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.
>
>
ok I finally found a 87 full dresser and it was just 434 lbs which is
very light. It also is not a liquid cooled design (which does not add
100 lbs of course) but what other mid weight dresser comes close?? KB
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on July 30, 2009, 4:15 pm
> ok I finally found a 87 full dresser and it was just 434 lbs which is
> very light. It also is not a liquid cooled design (which does not add
> 100 lbs of course) but what other mid weight dresser comes close??
You're missing the point. The GL650 was in a class of one. And nopbody
tried building anything else because nobody saw the point of taking a
smallish engine and bolting Gold Wing stuff onto it.
It was easier to (a) buy a bigger bike or (b) buy a basic naked bike and
adapt it to suit. Which is what the Silver Wing was anyway.
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Posted by Eiron on July 29, 2009, 3:15 am
Musicman59 wrote:
> What does the CB stand for?
It's a smiley. It stands for a helmet and goggles.
And the CBX was for rich people who wore bow-ties.
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Posted by J. Clarke on July 29, 2009, 7:41 am
Eiron wrote:
> Musicman59 wrote:
>> What does the CB stand for?
> It's a smiley. It stands for a helmet and goggles.
> And the CBX was for rich people who wore bow-ties.
On that basis, CL would be a smiley for a helmet with an intercom. But what
would CM be?
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> 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.