I think the author of that article was smoking something.
He lists the Cleveland Cyclewerks Heist as a good beginners bike.
It's a hardtail.
Although you can still buy a new one on Cycletrader from old dealer stock, I don't think they have been produced since 2016.
Cleveland Cyclewerks is up for sale, the partners parted ways.
The price listed for CB350 H'Ness is the (original?) India price converted to US$. By that calculus, we should be able to buy Interceptors for $4K and Meteors for $2700. It doesn't seem to work that way.
I doubt we'll see the H'Ness in the US, but it could happen, ... IF US sales numbers for the Meteor are impressive enough.
Export sales of the H'Ness, for those countries it was exported to, have NOT been very impressive.
https://www.rushlane.com/honda-cb350-sales-cross-18k-units-new-may-2021-price-list-12401860.htmlSpeaking of smoking something, A YZF-R3 is a suitable beginner bike, but the RE Meteor doesn't make the list?
And what about the Suzuki S40? With a seat 3" lower than the Yamaha, 20 fewer horsepower, and only 6 lbs heavier, with a nice low CG and forgiving cruiser handling, that seems more suitable for the task to my mind, although I would have thought the relatively low tech used on the bike would have resulted in a lower price tag. Suzuki announced they were withdrawing the S40 two years ago, but apparently changed their mind, maybe because of pandemic related demand?
Too bad they didn't bring back the GZ250. It wasn't that long ago, that Suzuki was able to sell their Marauder small single in the US, for a list price of $3999. I hear that the GZ250 was being used in a lot of MSF training courses. I wonder what machine has replaced it?
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