You don't need a Tac. Just like a stick shift car, feel and listen to the engine, thats plenty to go off of for shifting. Even as a 1st timer on said vehicle 15 minutes is plenty of time to get a good feel.
I agree you shouldn’t need a tac but the bike handles very different in low revs and high revs. Not clear when to shift as I said in the video. If you’ve looked around my channel you’ll see I’ve ridden a bunch of bikes and some have tacs and some don’t.
I'm sorry for saying my opinion.. I just came from a motorcycle shop today and I sat down on one of this and I got to say it's not a light motorcycle.. this motorcycle is not light it's really heavy bike, this bike is super heavy
Gotta whole heartedly disagree, definitely would not describe this as a heavy weight cruiser, add 125 lbs. I find it to be a light and pretty agile motorcycle, great for novice and intermediate riders. Oh ! It's a fun bike to ride and capable.
I wish they offered more colors like they used to and a 6th gear. Mine had the baffles taken out and it sounds pretty good. They do offer a mini tachometer from the factory. I drove mine in 30 mph gusts yesterday and it wasn’t bad.
I have a 2023 and personally I do not like this bike at all. Out of all the bikes I’ve had and ridden it is the worst I’ve ridden. Braking power for how heavy it is could use updating. Could use more power for the highway or at least add a 6th gear. Not too mention the vibration makes it almost impossible to see out of the left mirror at highway speed.
Shawn, my man...these engines are meant to be high rev., but.....to help with buzzing...I used Barron pulleys and 170 back tire, and oh man! it does make a difference!
Come on man.I have one and there is a little excess vibration.but you can see the mirrors fine .If you wanted a giant heavy bike to do mostly highways you should have bought a 1200 cc.Please trade in your bike if you hate it so someone who will love it can own it. Thanks
Ninja drive train = high rpm. Kawi went cheap again. Instead of putting an appropriate drive train. Just like Kawi using a plastic skid plate on their ATV. Kawi doesn’t want to put much into their products. Their 2x2 uses a Chinese Chi-Com engine! Not even a Kawi engine! Keep it.
Depends on what you want. If you want a nice relaxing ride and not too exciting, this is it. If you want some excitement but still nice try the eliminator 450, Vulcan 650. Those have the ninja engines
I love my 2015 custom! Sooooo nice!! Looks like they haven’t changed much as far as look and style. Cuz they didn’t need too. I have the Vance n Hines pipes and it rumbles. I also added larger floorboards. Other than that, I listen to the engine and shift by sound. It’s a great bike!!
Stock form my only complaint is the handlebars being too low and the gearing but I do have a bigger front pulley coming because I ride mostly highway and I purchased some 2 inch handlebar risers and man those risers alone made it waaay more comfortable but I am a short guy only 5'8"! She loves to be laid down in corners though...dragging pegs!!!
I recently got a 2010 Ebony Special Edition of this bike. I like it a lot, but it does need a 6th gear, so I bought the 'Barons' slightly larger engine pulley (a couple more teeth) and rear wheel pulley (a few less teeth) to alter the gearing. I'll live with the original setup for the summer, then get them installed. They reckon it should make about a 12% difference. Update: Did the work myself recently and it's made quite a difference, it's now a much better bike! (Don't know why they didn't have better gearing in the first place???)
I have this bike and it does not vibrate. The engine cuts out if you push it "too" hard, It is a preventative measure that Kawasaki built into the bike. They were being conservative though cause the engine can be pushed way more. Ivans ECM reflash really unlocks that engine. Anyway again no the bike doesn't vebrate, Ive been on my vulcan 900 for over a year now and this is not the case.
Honda Shadow 750 is a great first cruiser and it only weighs 550lbs. you can buy one for about 3k and with low miles. I just sold mine for 3k with 9k miles on it and it was clean.
@@marcmaschal2897 Yes it is. Its a retuned engine from the Ninja 650 which is the parallel twin bike which is commonly considered a beginner bike not to be confused with the 600cc inline 4 cylinder in the Ninja ZX-6R the Supersport bike.
