Trevor wrote:Thank You! I'm gonna test drive the PCX150 again this Tuesday. The dealer near me is closed tomorrow, weird. It's so much cheaper per year to insure also. I just don't see myself going on the highway, I'll be paying more $$$ just for a 670cc faster motorcycle and 90% of the time I won't use that extra power.
I'm sorry if this has been one nose dive of a thread on this forum, just learning etc. Thanks for the input and advice.
No worries Trevor.
It's a judgement call for sure - all I can say is my all-up weight is often the same as yours and sometimes considerably more; I'm not that much lighter than you and I'm forever strapping 60+ pound loads or placing 200 pound daughters on the back - and I'd buy the PCX again in a heartbeat for what I use it for. If you were needing to be wide-open-throttle all the time then I'd agree that it's not the bike for you, but sounds to me like you'd use it pretty much the same way I do - mostly town and intermediate speeds, and only a modest percent WOT.
I just encourage people to think of it as a solid + reliable + low-cost work-horse that adapts itself well a wide range of situations; in a few of those situations you need to be just a little bit patient (but generally not a lot). The other day I got to thinking that at times I feel like I'm spending more time talking about the bike than riding it - so I took a mental health day and rode up to the lake - then across to another city to visit my daughter - then back home; 315km that day - most of it in the 80 to 100km/hr bracket. Passed 7 other vehicles and got passed by 4 (not counting 3 I let by because their lights were annoying me) - in other words it keeps up with general traffic flows just fine. Next day neither the bike nor me are any the worse for wear and I'm quite sure we'd both enjoy doing the trip all over again. All in a day's work for the bike - and 33,000km so far. Suspect it's just about broken in now!
Don't get too put off by talk of "weights" - the bike is rated to 180kg and in my considerable experience on it in those weight ranges it's fine up to and even beyond that point; in terms of handling it's all about balance. Higher weights only have a small effect on top speed due to slightly increased rolling resistance and profile drag ... it just takes a bit longer to accelerate TO that speed. In city traffic you'll pull away from cars most of the time - at higher speeds cars will get there faster (it's not a Fireblade!). You may be better keeping your back tyre at 36 psi instead of the single-rider 33 psi to decrease rolling resistance and better cope with the slightly higher than average load. That in turn will have a small effect on tyre life, but nothing particularly significant.
Feel free to drop me a PM if there's anything you'd like to discuss about the bike - can flick you my eMail addy as well if you like.