Ah, see, there you go, clogging a lot of "I wants" up with reality, which is never received well by the public. Adding C.C. to the C-14 as currently available would be problematic and although absolutely doable, it would show up in the bottom- line cost to the consumer who seems invariably reluctant / resistant to paying for it.
Ah, see, there you go, clogging a lot of "I wants" up with reality, which is never received well by the public.
Adding C.C. to the C-14 as currently available would be problematic and although absolutely doable, it would show up in the bottom- line cost to the consumer who seems invariably reluctant / resistant to paying for it.
But there is a solution: all the "I wants" can get together and devise / design their own CC. (an similar) for the C-14 at a 'cut- rate' price, without the concerns for liability or other, outside, costs.
ROFLMAO
Brian
... but that is very minimal for cruise control on an already throttle-by-wire design (which itself WILL take a lot of development, but that is a change already being made),
what cost there would be is then spread over a million production units over several or more years, meaning something like a few or several dollars per bike.
S
Apparently BMW and Yamaha have the market cornered? Honda hasn't updated the ST1300 in years and Suzuki doesn't even try. I've had CC and do love it but I'm not willing to do a Rostra when a throttle lock accomplishes 75% of the task for <$20.
Except my postings weren't at all about adding cruise control to the currently available model. It was about adding cruise control to a NEW model that would presumably already be throttle-by-wire....
Not necessarily . Hypothetically , what if cc added $100 to the cost of the bike, but the folks in the marketing dept say that if it has cc, keeping the current price, they could sell 10,000 more bikes and that would more than make up for extra $50 the cc cost? That’s how it works in the real world.
That's being very generous. Unless you live where it is totally flat and there is no wind,it is nowhere close to doing 75% of what cc can do. Go up a hill, it maintains your speed, go down a hill, maintains your speed, and if you have to slow down, a simple pus of a button takes you back up to that speed, no throttle lock can do that. Plus, speed maintained within .5 mph, so steady that it helps mpg, again, throttle lock can't do that.
So if you take out the expensive part, it's very inexpensive? Makes perfect sense.
If they were selling a million bikes, would they be phasing out the model?
I'm sure the C14 product manager doesn't sit around all day, wondering how he can possibly improve the bike. On the contrary, he probably has a rule in his email that automatically deletes any email that mentions cruise control. Why? Because he's been told in no uncertain terms by a legion of bean counters that he's losing money on the model as is, and if he adds cost to it, he'll be taken out back and hacked apart by bone saws (it's all the rage now).
As to a new model, it appears that the entire sport- tourer, and perhaps the entire recreational vehicle market too boot, is pretty soft, so that makes adding a newer model much less attractive to a manufacturer. So the chances of a major update to a relatively slow seller such as the C-14 is not overly likely IMO. Of course that is just a wild guess on my part, I really have no idea what may be in the pipeline but it is pretty obvious that recreational vehicle sales are down.
We I am afraid of is that Kawasaki may simply drop the sport tourer line entirely and let Yamaha have it for example.
All of that said, at least Kawasaki is sharing development and a big proportion of tooling expenses with another model besides the C-14, the ZX 14.
Being the pessimist that I am, I have a feeling the Concours is dead as a concept.... along with the large, super-sport ZX.
I will say this- considering how well my '11 C14 has served me, how well the bike performs and how you could probably buy a 2019 for $15K, I consider the C14 a massive bargain and wish I could buy another for if and when my current one wears out.
What we would like to have, it would be a successor for the 1400 GTR, a GT bike that we have more in the range, but the slot will be partly covered by the H2 SX.
Euro rumors...[...]
The final bike is believed to be a mildly revised Ninja H2 SX sports tourer. That also makes sense, as the H2 SX is one of the only bikes left in Kawasaki’s range that’s still listed as a ‘2018’ model rather than a ‘2019’ version on the firm’s website. Quite what will be changed on the bike remains a mystery, but we’d bank on electronic suspension, at least on the ‘SE’ model.