Author Topic: No Enfield at the Chicago motorcycle show  (Read 3272 times)

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Bankerdanny

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on: February 08, 2009, 06:00:32 am
I was disappointed :-[.

60 degrees today. I put the battery in the FJ1200 and rode to the show. It was great to be on the bike.

Cafe Magazine has a nice booth with some good looking bikes. Harley brought the XR1200, man that's a beautiful bike the only bike at the show that I looked at and thought , yeah, I could own this. The new Guzzi V7 Classic looks cool, but the seat felt like unpadded plastic.

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Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 04:43:14 am
I was disappointed :-[.

... The new Guzzi V7 Classic looks cool, but the seat felt like unpadded plastic.

Yeah, an unpadded 2 by 4 compared to its Nevada brother I ride.  Also, the grab strap on the V7 Classic is SEWED ON to the seat.  It is a decoration only, you really can't grab it along the top of the seat.  Maybe on the sides.

At the Seattle CW MC show the owner of the Urul shop up north brought a few iron Enfields to the show.  Vince doesn't waste his time and money (or Kevin's) these days, but next year maybe the C5 and G5 classic will put in a showing!