Well Ladies and Gent's,
If all goes as planned next week I'll no longer be a 7 month owner of a Kawasaki Vulcan Voyager CSC trike owner. Wife and I drove a new Spyder for a day and that sold us. Quiet, great wind management, fast, semi auto trans, safety features. Its as good if not better than the goldwing in almost all areas in my opinion and the Kawasaki is not even on the honorable mention list. Again my opinion only. I played around with the Kawi's exhaust baffles a lot again and the noise level is still just crazy for the both of us. All changing the baffles does is change the pitch/tone and changes which gear its the loudest at cruise and accelerating as well as some performance. If I got that fixed, then there's the driver passenger heat issues, then the vibration, wind management issues. Cut my losses. I needed a big jar of vaseline to make the switch but I learned a lesson or 2 from my purchase mistake...never ever buy a bike without you or the wife riding it for more than a 15 min bike test ride. After 10 years of riding a Goldwing trike I don't know why I thought I'd like to go back to a V twin. My bad! So I had to buck up, open my wallet and move on. Maybe see you on the Can Am forum. :cxtv:Good Luck everyone with your units and safe riding.
If all goes as planned next week I'll no longer be a 7 month owner of a Kawasaki Vulcan Voyager CSC trike owner. Wife and I drove a new Spyder for a day and that sold us. Quiet, great wind management, fast, semi auto trans, safety features. Its as good if not better than the goldwing in almost all areas in my opinion and the Kawasaki is not even on the honorable mention list. Again my opinion only. I played around with the Kawi's exhaust baffles a lot again and the noise level is still just crazy for the both of us. All changing the baffles does is change the pitch/tone and changes which gear its the loudest at cruise and accelerating as well as some performance. If I got that fixed, then there's the driver passenger heat issues, then the vibration, wind management issues. Cut my losses. I needed a big jar of vaseline to make the switch but I learned a lesson or 2 from my purchase mistake...never ever buy a bike without you or the wife riding it for more than a 15 min bike test ride. After 10 years of riding a Goldwing trike I don't know why I thought I'd like to go back to a V twin. My bad! So I had to buck up, open my wallet and move on. Maybe see you on the Can Am forum. :cxtv:Good Luck everyone with your units and safe riding.