this honda fury even dirty it's just too damn beautiful to not take it out for a little test
ride so i got a few questions that i'm going to try and answer for myself. One when i rip this
thing is it going to open up or is it going to be kind of slow because it's just a big slow revving
engine? Two can i actually handle something that has a 71 inch wheelbase comfortably in the city?
Three just what my overall thoughts of this bike are. So let's jump on i think it's a 20
10 but i believe the whole first generation of honda furys are all pretty much the same.
Honestly just picking the bike on and off the side stand it's just it's super light
honestly my Triumph Thruxton that i just picked up feels heavier than this bike even though this
bike is much heavier because the weight center of gravity is so nice and down low
and the wheelbase stretches that weight out so long so
let's see how she does with some little curves and little bit of an incline. All right here we go.
Clutching out is super smooth. that's pretty good.
Yeah it feels good. It picks up pretty quickly. You don't
have a tachometer so you got to just feel what the rpms are like.
So in the city at slow speed you're definitely gonna want to keep it in first gear
if you're doing parking lot speeds.
The
bike is happy being leaned over. I t doesn't feel like it's fighting me or anything
granted i'm going slow but shifts really smooth. Gotta try not to kill this squirrel.
Didn't even really have to look to see where those turn signal controls are they're exactly
where they should be, feels really natural and intuitive. Handling the bike is super easy.
One thing i do find weird if i was going to be riding aggressively is i don't really know where
to put my knees they're kind of there's nowhere to like i can't hug the tank because there's this
nice felt skinny tank but there's an air box on my right side there's nothing really here so i kind
of have this weird awkward thing going on. I mean this isn't exactly your canyon carver type bike
signals are still on but you know still kind of just want to share that observation with you guys
coming to a stop is just this thing feels like it's like it feels like a train like
it's on rails you know just super easy to come to a stop and taking off again clutch lets out
gently
leans really well
even on an uphill lean you can really hold your line
now here's another question for you is it a beginner-friendly bike?
That's an interesting one. Beginner friendly in the sense of this thing does not want to take
off on me like even if i give a gas okay yeah it'll go a little bit yeah alright
but just when you're letting out the clutch from a stop it doesn't take off on you, it doesn't
accelerate, but with a wheelbase this big i don't know if i'd recommend it as a good first bike.
I think it's a perfect second bike i think it's a great second bike but we gotta we gotta really
open up the throttle a little bit to find out for sure. I really don't mind the wheelbase i
was really thinking it might handle like a boat but oh my god it handles so nice
The reason why i'm taking this out is it's a customer's bike he's in for winter storage
and i put some fuel stabilizer on the gas tank now i just got
to run that stabilizer through. You know what? Let's take some of the
streets
one thing i'll tell you, you ride this bike and everyone's looking at you. Let's see the horn,
yep, horn works. This bike is an absolute beauty
the guy in the yamaha jacket at the bus stop was like checking me out.
These furies they never really caught on they never became like a hot sellers or anything which
is good and bad it's good in the sense of there is probably not a lot out there but at the same time
there's not a lot of people that are interested in them so if you're interested in one
and you're willing to travel a little bit you can find these for for fairly good prices and a lot
of people who bought these they just they really liked the look they always wanted to have a bike
and they didn't necessarily ride them a lot so you can still find them 10 years later with pretty low
kilometers when i get to the next stoplight we'll see how many kilometers this bike has.
Look you can even split lanes with this thing
all right what do we got 13 000 miles for a honda motor for a 1300 cc honda motor that is a baby
oh this has plenty of power this has all the power you need
excellent bike
now if you own one of these or you're thinking about buying one you're probably going to want to
subscribe to the channel i'm going to be doing about three maintenance videos on this bike.
So one i'm going to show you guys how to bleed the brakes front and back.
On the second one i'm going to show you guys how to change the oil and filter.
you know it is really big and kind of awkward on like a tight right turn from a stop
but the clutch let's out so lightly that you almost can't even be mad at the bike for that. It
compensates for itself really well it's like the Honda engineers thought "what
is wrong with this bike and how can we cheat the system to actually make it not so wrong?"
So i'll tell you what i mean. Here i am again so i come to a full stop right?
Put my feet down, yep, and now i gotta turn this big son of a - to go over there
where the girl in the cute pants is and uh oh here we go the thing is the clutch doesn't let
out it doesn't just take off on you so it's actually really easy to make that right turn
The first time was a little bit weird but second time no problem
Anyway guys if you're into the Honda Fury you might want to subscribe because i'm going to have
a few more what the - is this person doing?! If you guys really like them if you're interested in
them you should subscribe to the channel because i'm going to be doing a video showing you guys how
to bleed the front and black brakes, to get new fluid in there, how to change the oil and filter,
and we'll also be changing the shaft fluids so i'll show you how to treat it like a dealer would
because i have the service manual. So subscribe if you want to see those videos i will also link
them in the description box down below once they come out ride safe guys thanks for watching peace