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Offline SkyWalker

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2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« on: August 26, 2013, 07:42:51 AM »
www.kawasaki.ca/product/concours-14-abs/2014

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2013, 07:46:51 AM »
Still no cruise. Whats up with that. Seriously have to look at the BMW even though I love my connie.
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2013, 08:02:42 AM »
Adding an after-market cruise control is a lot cheaper than getting a BMW!

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2013, 08:06:12 AM »
Adding an after-market cruise control is a lot cheaper than getting a BMW!

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2013, 08:07:41 AM »
Specs on that site say 4.8 gal fuel capacity. I guess they mean before the display goes insane and tries to distract you from looking at the road.

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2013, 08:15:06 AM »
Specs on that site say 4.8 gal fuel capacity. I guess they mean before the display goes insane and tries to distract you from looking at the road.

That's 4.8 Imp Gal (160 ounces) which equates to 5.8 US Gal (128 ounces)

Yes blame it on Canada (or the UK), our Quarts have 40 ounces and Pints have 20 Ounces (at least that's what they say to me at the pub !  :chugbeer: )

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2013, 08:27:00 AM »
That's 4.8 Imp Gal (160 ounces) which equates to 5.8 US Gal (128 ounces)

Yes blame it on Canada (or the UK), our Quarts have 40 ounces and Pints have 20 Ounces (at least that's what they say to me at the pub !  :chugbeer: )

Sorry I don't speak Canadian ;) I learn something new every day.  :chugbeer:

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2013, 08:28:49 AM »
Sorry I don't speak Canadian ;) I learn something new every day.  :chugbeer:

But our cups still have 8 ounces !

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2013, 08:33:38 AM »
But our cups still have 8 ounces !

As long as the beer glasses hold more then that, eh!  ;D

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2013, 09:55:05 AM »
Hey, that Candy Canadian Red looks strangely familiar.
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2013, 11:17:27 AM »
They're recycling paint again...  My God, can't they (Kwak Central) think of anything different?
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2013, 03:59:13 PM »
+1

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We already knew there would be no cruise until the next major remodeling of the Concours.  It is likely to coincide with a throttle-by-wire.
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2013, 05:23:34 PM »
Up on the USA site too.  Disappointing - no reason to upgrade...
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2013, 11:10:55 PM »
My prediction for 2015 would be cruise control, oxygen sensors, throttle by wireless, and a re-flashed ECU because of so many complaints. The Canadian site says Kawasaki uses the 2 throttle valves to make sure no one experiences the wild out-of-control-torque that happens without them... This is worse than the United States of Nanny.

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2013, 05:42:33 AM »
My prediction for 2015 would be cruise control, oxygen sensors, throttle by wireless

Oh, I think it will be that and a lot more

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, and a re-flashed ECU because of so many complaints. The Canadian site says Kawasaki uses the 2 throttle valves to make sure no one experiences the wild out-of-control-torque that happens without them... This is worse than the United States of Nanny.

You realize they will do the same thing with the throttle by wire, since it would no longer be necessary to have dual butterflies to accomplish it.  I suspect they would add performance "modes" like many vehicles have, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the maps' highest performance mode is not still quelled.
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2013, 02:34:53 PM »
Up on the USA site too.  Disappointing - no reason to upgrade...

Where? I don't see any 2014 Concours. The 2013 is there...

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2013, 09:55:32 AM »
Still no cruise. Whats up with that. Seriously have to look at the BMW even though I love my connie.

+3 You can add Rostra Cruise in a weekend.

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2013, 10:17:18 PM »
Adding an after-market cruise control is a lot cheaper than getting a BMW!

Not when you include an after market suspension that peforms as the one stock on the beemer
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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2013, 03:59:38 AM »
I still love my Connie I don't care what you guys say nanu nanu. and I wouldn't trade it for two beemers

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Re: 2014 C14 Up on CDN Web Site
« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2013, 05:39:56 AM »
I still love my Connie I don't care what you guys say nanu nanu. and I wouldn't trade it for two beemers

Not only +1, but you could buy nearly TWO C14's for the total cost ownership of a K16 over several years.  So for those two beemers, you could have FOUR C14's!
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