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Offline Down Under

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Baby ST 1300
« on: June 28, 2013, 03:49:36 PM »
I wonder where CFMOTO found their inspiration for the 650TK?  :grin

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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 04:02:31 PM »
That's a nice looking machine. Wonder if that will affect the wee strom buyers decision.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 04:08:57 PM »
At $7,000 it just might be a reasonable budget priced tourer.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 04:24:56 PM »
The shape looks very similar to the ST, even down to the plastic fins covering the crash bar.  Smart looking machine for the money.  The Chinese are coming!!!
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 05:38:20 PM »


 :rd13    :hatwave :thumbsup :runyay
winston66,
Can i have a red one please.
 :candystwheelie :think1 :beer :clap :runyay
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 08:35:02 PM »
Nice looking little bike.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2013, 09:01:51 AM »
Go look at the tester's video on  YouTube. The rider is pretty decent.  Beats the crap out of the bike though. I'll try to find the link when I am back at my desktop.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2013, 12:20:46 PM »
It looks like they thought they had better move the tip-over cover higher up the bike and use round exhausts to stop it looking like a clone.

Motor is half the size, half the cylinders.  6 speed box.  Only 17.5 litre tank.
It's the LAMS you have before you get the RAM.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2013, 02:36:01 PM »
Looks Ok in distance. Sunstate at Maroochydore have one.
looked a bit cheap up close but then again it is isn't it.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2013, 03:15:34 PM »
I think I saw they actually modelled it on the ST1300. 
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2013, 06:10:06 PM »
The new edition of 'Freewheeling' magazine has a blurb by Alan Cathcart (moto journalist) on the 650TK in which he says it is pretty good for the money ($6999 on road) although I wonder at having NON detachable panniers.

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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2013, 09:49:16 PM »
Quote from: STeveo on July 15, 2013, 06:10:06 PM
I wonder at having NON detachable panniers.

Far from unique.  Look at the Goldwing, just to name one.  We're just used to the convenience the ST offers.
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Re: Baby ST 1300
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2013, 08:45:23 AM »
True Biggles, sometimes we need to go ride something else to bring back into perspective just how good the ST's really are. Yesterday I took one of my smaller bikes to a get together and could see nothing but my elbows in the mirrors through the vibrations, made me realise that the fairing mounted ones of the ST aren't so bad after all.

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