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rideandfly:
My intention for the 2015 Honda CB500X is for solo mountain pavement day rides mixing in fire road riding, too. This bike works fine on twisties. The biggest surprise with this bike is the 70MPG fuel economy. Have not had the Honda CB500X long, but already adding bolt on modifications. Trying to minimize weight gain with bolt on mods, too.

Before mods:



Will not be installing center stand, use paddock stands for maintenance/cleaning:



Replaced original passenger hand holds with Givi trunk mount and bolted a Pelican 1400 case directly to the mount:







Replaced original rear foot peg assemblies with R&G rear foot rest eliminators:





Installed Barkbuster Handguards:





Installed R&G radiator guard:




Parts on order: Rally Raid bash plate/crash bars & foot pegs.

Brick:
So you are going to take this off road? What tires do you think you might run?

Yesterday I rode with some of the Carolina Old Farts. Steve was along on his CB500X. His is set up for road only and he has a trunk too.

rideandfly:

--- Quote from: Brick on December 05, 2015, 10:53:09 AM ---So you are going to take this off road? What tires do you think you might run?

Yesterday I rode with some of the Carolina Old Farts. Steve was along on his CB500X. His is set up for road only and he has a trunk too.

--- End quote ---

Going to try a set of Avon Trailrider 90/10 tires:

http://www.avonmoto.com/products/adventure-sport/Trailrider

Check out this blog:

http://earth-roamers.blogspot.com/2015/11/avon-trailrider-after-25000-km.html

Pirelli Scorpion Trail are stock tires:

rideandfly:
Next mods bash-plate/crash bars & pegs. Might powder coat the bash-plate/crash bars, will see.

Here's a shot from today showing mods so far:

Brick:
Bill looks good and sounds like a great light weight Adventure bike.

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