Steven
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As I've said in a previous post, my bike is apart and I adjusted the valves and changed the air filter. It had been while since I rode it because of the humidity, but the last two days have been very nice. Tonight was 65 degrees which is one of my favorite riding temperatures. The bike is still stripped down from all of it's plastic so in a way this is more like the naked bike. With the seat on the bike the gas tank looks very small and I got to thinking about that. If Honda had made a regular metal tank (without the plastic), it could have easily made it a 5 gal, perhaps 6 gallon tank. It also seems to me that half of working on the bike is removing and reinstalling the plastic. With a regular gas tank, maintenance would be cut in half.
The other thing is that the naked version felt lighter. Granted the plastic weighs almost nothing, but for some reason it felt much lighter. With a good fairing like the plexifairing 3 which covers the hands and has lowers built on it, it could be better than the fared version of the CTX in terms of wind protection. Too bad they don't make a full sized fairing for the naked CTX.
In any case, I really enjoyed my ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NoPLp-Zl0
The other thing is that the naked version felt lighter. Granted the plastic weighs almost nothing, but for some reason it felt much lighter. With a good fairing like the plexifairing 3 which covers the hands and has lowers built on it, it could be better than the fared version of the CTX in terms of wind protection. Too bad they don't make a full sized fairing for the naked CTX.
In any case, I really enjoyed my ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NoPLp-Zl0