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Originally Posted by 05HDRAM  If you want to spend $10K plus, you can buy a cruiser with all the tech you mentioned. The V-Star 650 and Suzuki M & C50s are made as affordable cruisers, and are usually a good choice for new riders. They can put all that tech into the smaller bikes, but it will drive the price up so much they would not sell. |
see, that is what I don't get... what is so expensive about hydraulic valve adjustment and a second disk brake. I don't see what it is about a disk brake that is so pricey...
Similarly, while that tech exists, it tends to exist on bigger, heavier bikes like the C90. I don't see it on middleweight bikes, which is a shame.
Also, with the tech so old (80s, 70s...), I can't see why it is so expensive to put in a bike. Cars are made, with far more raw materials, to similar price points as some of the c90 level bikes. Given that bikes have half or less the raw materials, It seems like it would be quite cheap to put in there.
For instance, the old vulcan 750had all these things, and was a middleweight, non-expensive bike.