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- Jul 5, 2019
I swapped out my track rubber for my winter touring tires and gave the bike a good wash this past weekend. Several coats of wax, and everyone loves a shot of a clean and lubed chain:
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All 650's What did you do with your 650 today?
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- Jul 5, 2019
The morning commute is getting pretty cold around here. It was below 30 deg F two mornings ago when I left for the office, and it was snowing on the way home from work today. So I bought some heated grips.
They came attached to all of this:
The heated grips work really well. Highly recommend. All the other bits that came with them work pretty good too.
I do miss my CBR650R, though. That bike did everything I asked of her, without issue. Reliable commuting in all sorts of weather, lots of happy track days, camping, and fun weekends riding with friends in the mountains. She was solid as a rock, and easy to work on. After getting the brakes sorted out for reliable track duty, I almost spent the money to upgrade the suspension, but this past Tuesday I went out to lunch and stopped by the new Ducati/BMW/Triumph dealer in town to check out the inventory and came home with this. It's easily the most comfortable superbike I've ever been on, it just fits my frame so well, and I loved flogging them around the track at CSS. So I had to take a test ride. I never wanted 205hp, but it rode so nice and easy around downtown. Then they took some money off sticker, waived all the dealer fees, and gave me what I wanted for trade-in.
And that's how I got heated grips for winter.
They came attached to all of this:
The heated grips work really well. Highly recommend. All the other bits that came with them work pretty good too.
I do miss my CBR650R, though. That bike did everything I asked of her, without issue. Reliable commuting in all sorts of weather, lots of happy track days, camping, and fun weekends riding with friends in the mountains. She was solid as a rock, and easy to work on. After getting the brakes sorted out for reliable track duty, I almost spent the money to upgrade the suspension, but this past Tuesday I went out to lunch and stopped by the new Ducati/BMW/Triumph dealer in town to check out the inventory and came home with this. It's easily the most comfortable superbike I've ever been on, it just fits my frame so well, and I loved flogging them around the track at CSS. So I had to take a test ride. I never wanted 205hp, but it rode so nice and easy around downtown. Then they took some money off sticker, waived all the dealer fees, and gave me what I wanted for trade-in.
And that's how I got heated grips for winter.
Nice!!! After you get some more time on it give us a bit of a comparison to the 650R if you can. They certainly aren’t in the same class but your thoughts would be great to hear for those thinking of moving up. I just hate how stupid expensive insurance rates are, even at my age, on liter sportbikes. Maybe if I only had one bike it would be worth it, with 7, nope.
- Oct 30, 2018
Wow nice! Congrats! Please please give your valuable thoughts and perspective as a CBR650 street and track rider compared to this bike.. Thanks !
What belly pan is that? It looks great
- Sep 28, 2019
Honda's OEM
I got around to removing the PAIR valve using the SmartMoto blanking kit. Went much smoother than I feared it might, and no issues on my test ride afterwords. I also recently slapped on some Ermax plastics to get more splashes of red on the bike. 
Good call, I was planning to upgrade the oil and front springs with a kit. Will rember to adjust the lights if needed so I dont burn peoples retinas out
It gets a bit cramped between the head and frame where the PAIR bolts the the head, especially before the hoses and whatnot are removed. You'll want small ratchet wrenches or lots of patience with regular ones. If you don't want to go to the trouble of removing stuff you can just block the hose that feeds the valves. There's some satisfaction to be had from removing vestigial parts for me, so I went ahead with the full removal. There are two threads with lots of good info that I went through beforehand.
It's a necessary part of the process, you wouldn't be able to access the valve without removing it. With my handy JIS screwdrivers (which I luckily have from working on vintage Hondas) it all came apart very easily. The most awkward parts were removing the bolts from the head to take the reed valve covers off and reattaching the air intakes to the box during reassembly. I didn't have a small ratchet on hand, so I did it ever so slowly with a small box wrench that fit in the cramped space. Honda also was pretty liberal with the locktight, the bolts gave resistance on the way out until the very end, as if it were cross threaded from the factory (it wasn't, of course). Then with the PAIR valve and hoses out of the way I had more clearance for a small ratchet to install the blanking plates.
- Jan 28, 2023
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- 2019
I know you posted this a while ago and have probably talked about this before. But what brand of running chain luber do you use? I’m referring to that little hose running down and touching your chain on the bottom of the sprocket! I think they call them chain savers or something like that.
- Mar 10, 2022
- Riding Since
- 2022
Awoke Wilf from his winter hibernation - started right up on the button like "yup where we going then?"
- Jan 28, 2023
- Riding Since
- 2019
Slightly (but only very slightly) sad to say I part ex’d my first big bike in for a Sexy Italian model on Saturday.
So my 21 plate CBR650R which I have enjoyed enormously has gone and a Shiny 2022 525 mile Ducati Panigale V2 has replaced her in my heart and Garage.
There is an excellent 21 plate CBR650R in Red with genuine Honda high tinted screen, nice tail tidy and Honda Quickshifter going to be for sale at SMC Ducati in Sheffield very soon!
Think they’re planning to throw a new rear tyre on and throw in its annual service due in May!
So my 21 plate CBR650R which I have enjoyed enormously has gone and a Shiny 2022 525 mile Ducati Panigale V2 has replaced her in my heart and Garage.
There is an excellent 21 plate CBR650R in Red with genuine Honda high tinted screen, nice tail tidy and Honda Quickshifter going to be for sale at SMC Ducati in Sheffield very soon!
Think they’re planning to throw a new rear tyre on and throw in its annual service due in May!
