Thanks for posting! Quick q -- how tall are you, and what's your inseam? You look pretty comfortable on it with an easy reach to the bars.
I'm right at 6' tall with a 34-inch inseam. I was quite comfortable on the bike. I'll be curious if there will be some aftermarket highway pegs for stretching out. My current bike (VTX1800) feels like sitting in my easy chair. I'd like to recreate that as best I can for the long haul rides if I change over to the CTX.Thanks for posting! Quick q -- how tall are you, and what's your inseam? You look pretty comfortable on it with an easy reach to the bars.
I was looking at Kuryakin and what they have for frame tube mounts and pegs. Just under the radiator fairing on each side just in front of bend in the forward exhaust pipe is about 2" of exposed frame that would be almost perfect location for highway pegs... at least for my 32" inseam. I'm sure there are offsets that would push any pegs mounted there forward a bit more for longer inseams.I'm right at 6' tall with a 34-inch inseam. I was quite comfortable on the bike. I'll be curious if there will be some aftermarket highway pegs for stretching out. My current bike (VTX1800) feels like sitting in my easy chair. I'd like to recreate that as best I can for the long haul rides if I change over to the CTX.
Brian
There was one concern voiced here and on other boards about the knees and those cylinder head covers and fitting the knees around them. Any thoughts on that after having sat on it?I'm right at 6' tall with a 34-inch inseam. I was quite comfortable on the bike. I'll be curious if there will be some aftermarket highway pegs for stretching out. My current bike (VTX1800) feels like sitting in my easy chair. I'd like to recreate that as best I can for the long haul rides if I change over to the CTX.
Brian
That's the good part about being such an average 5'9"; the bad part is you can never find the right size pants in stock!good observation bob, I'd even be a little worried getting my toes all cozy with the headersI don't know if the knees are a huge issue, although i guess for some of you taller boys out there, I'm a sturdy 5 ft 9...
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I did notice my knees were about an inch from the little rubber snubber on the engine head of the CTX1300. I remember ST1300 riders complaining about engine heat the first couple years the bike was available. I'm hoping the CTX's exposed engine will help dissipate some of that heat so we don't suffer that same initial fate.There was one concern voiced here and on other boards about the knees and those cylinder head covers and fitting the knees around them. Any thoughts on that after having sat on it?
Sort of off-topic here... but I had the first-year ST1300, and while it got generally warm in hot weather back there behind all that tupperware, I never had any of the extreme engine heat issues that some people complained about. I mean one guy some years ago actually posted pics of skin burns on his calf supposedly from the engine heat. I had that ST on long highway miles, stop-and-go in sunny summer heat, and everything in between. Never had any of that heat, other than major stuffiness because of no air flow behind the fairing and windscreen.Thanks! That makes the picture of how many of us will fit on this bike more complete. It would seem, then, that taller folks like yourself don't have to worry about their knees having to wrap around the sides of the engine.
I'm sure that rubber pad on the backside of the head covers is something of a heat shield since it isn't on the ST1300 that I recall, at least I've never notice it there before.
I agree that the exposed engine should dissipate the heat much better than the enclosed ST1300. There are still riders of that bike that comment how much hotter the ST1300 is compared to the ST1100, so the problem never was really resolved but maybe on lessened a bit.
I am a little disappointed in the quality of pics from my camera. These photos don't do the blue gray paint justice. It really is nice and looks different in different lights. Wish I could have seen the metallic black one next to it for comparison. If I had to choose right this second on a color, I'd pick the blue gray, but the black is still an option to me. I can image throwing some pearl orange ghost flames on the metallic blackI keep thinking how interesting it is that the color of the gray/blue metallic changes in different lighting. In some photos it looks royal blue. In some it looks more like a light blue. In these photos provided by Brian it really looks just medium silver gray.
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