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I am really interested in a sport touring bike and was ready to buy the evaluation that motorcycle.com gave in this video. Then I noticed something about the Kawasaki Concours 14, by shear coincidence. The Concours 14 they are riding is Blue. Kawasaki did not make a blue Concours in 2015 or 2014 that I am aware of. So I checked and found out that they made one in 2009, 2010, and 2013. Wow that does not sound like a good review because there were many changes in that bike for 2015 including the link braking that they speak so ill about. Now I have to think they did the same with the Honda as well to give Yamaha an unfair advantage in this review. I often took these guys word as gospel, now I am very cautious to believe the review at all. Please do not do those things because serious buyers like myself take these reviews as a means to make an informed decision when purchasing motorcycles since most dealers only let you demo a motorcycle for 1 mile or less. Thanks but be totally upfront from now on.
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Jeez, if you don't like the linked brakes on the Kawasaki turn it off ...........
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I feel like you don't understand the word luxury or the term "middle of the road". You said the Honda is luxury and immediately say it should have heated grips. How can it be luxury and not have cruise control or heated grips? Then you say the Kawasaki is "middle of the road" and immediately say it is on the sport end of the sport touring spectrum. How is it middle of the road if it is on one end of the spectrum? What kind of journalism is this?
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*Intrusiveness
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for 2013 There was cruise but no 6th gear. Great bike, but the Kawasaki is my favorite. The bike is agile for it's size, fast an tractable. I have no complaints.
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Yess. Motorbike
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Gotta love the Kawasaki, have to be kidding
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Bullcrap, no problems, use the lowest linked breaking, steers fine, whiny journalist!
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Comparisons are entertaining at best. I have ridden all of these bikes. As standalone entities, they are all good motorcycles. The first one I rode was the ST1300. I rented it to ride around the Lake Tahoe area. Spent the whole day on it. It was a little high for me being 5'7". However, it got me around those hair pin turns. When I looked into buying one, I got sticker shock. Instrument cluster worked fine.
The next one I tried was the Concours. Not as comfortable as the ST, but had way more takeoff power. I also like the transmission the best out of all 3.
The FJR was cool and had nice handling. But the transmission was the worse out of the 3 for me. Despite the features, having to manage the shifting was something I would have to get used to.
I wound up buying the Concours. Best bang for the buck. Changing to Pilot Power 3 tires vastly improved the handling over the stock ones.
Again, I could live with and be happy with any of these bikes. -
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I don't understand why Honda stop make ST1300 and start make CTX1300.ST1300 is much-much better on the road,than new model of CTX,and this bike was very good on the market. CTX1300 is not good on the market and after one year Honda discontinued this bike.Maybe very soon we will see ST models again? For now on this moment in 2016,I like more Yamaha FJR1300 sport-touring,because,Yamaha still made this bike.Kawasaki Concourse is good too,but I like more Yamaha FJR1300.
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Amazing that the Honda is an older design yet it still beats out newer offerings from Kawasaki and Yamaha in what a Sport Tourer does best; handling and range. Personally I think it looks better than the rest, too.
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I like the Honda.
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Just got an fjr today. The ride felt amazing going from a kawasaki ninja
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Love my FJR1300. Yet while a 2007 model overall not a lot of changes over the years. Amazing value, performance & durability.
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Is there any chance on seeing a review of the 2016 ST1300? Apparently these are not coming to New Zealand :-(
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it's really interesting [ideo what's%up, disapprove imagine 11
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Perhaps I shouldn't comment as I haven't ridden any of these 3. As a concept, and while I'm getting older, I appreciate low weight and ergonomics. Riding in Thailand with animals on the street (from river crabs to buffalos and countless chicken and dogs), top speed doesn't matter.
Wish someone would focus on the Deauville. Let her go on a diet, strengthen the engine and voila, that's a sensible bike! -
All the concours needed was a tire upgrade from 190/50 to 190/55.
Since Yamaha was kind enough to revamp the FJR1300 for 2013, we thought it was high time to see how it stacked up against the Honda ST1300 and Kawasaki Concours 14 in a sport-touring shootout. http://www.motorcycle.com/shoot-outs/2013-sporttouring-shootout-10-video-91504.html Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Motorcycle YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/Motorcycle Facebook - http://facebook.com/MotorcycleCom Twitter - http://twitter.com/MotorcycleCom Web - http://www.Motorcycle.com Established in 1994, Motorcycle.com is the premiere online resource for motorcycle and scooter enthusiasts. With hundreds of high quality, detailed video reviews on bikes from Harley-Davidson, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and just about everybody else, it's the best place to go to learn about the latest and greatest two-wheeled creations. There's simply no better resource if you're planning on buying or if you just want to check out some awesome machines.