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00:00Heyo everybody, Zach Kordes here with RevZilla and welcome to another episode of Daily Rider.
00:07Our guest today, Honda's NC750XDCT, which at first glance looks like a regular old motorcycle,
00:15but it's actually got some tricks up its sleeve.
00:17Most notably, a dual clutch automatic transmission and lockable waterproof scooter-like storage.
00:24Plus, MSRP is only $8,500, which on paper, makes it a pretty good daily rider.
00:30And as you can imagine, that makes me very excited.
00:33So let's get ridin'.
00:42Alright everybody, NC750.
00:46Like I said, when you first see it, it looks like a pretty conventional motorcycle, right?
00:50Sort of a kind of modern, upright, everyday motorbike.
00:55So this is the 745cc Parallel Twin.
01:00And what you might notice about it, a couple things, one, it says dual clutch transmission
01:05here.
01:06We'll talk more about how that works when we're riding.
01:09But also that the cylinders are kind of laid down, right?
01:12Normally Parallel Twins are a little more upright.
01:14This one's laid down and that creates a lot of space in this area.
01:19Which is where the intake is, and normally the gas tank would be here.
01:25But on the NC750, the gas tank is here, under the seat.
01:30Not the first bike to do that, but what Honda was able to achieve by laying the engine down
01:35and putting the gas there, is a big old storage compartment here.
01:40Front trunk, or frunk, which holds a full-size helmet.
01:44This is a medium RF1200 that I tucked in there for demonstration's sake.
01:48So that's 23 liters of storage, which is pretty cool.
01:54And yeah, that's sort of the, those are the party tricks that the NC750 does.
01:59Otherwise, you know, really basic kind of lawn furniture swing arm, steel tube frame,
02:06ride setup fork, single front disc, Nissan caliper, 320mm rotor, which is pretty big,
02:13but only one of them.
02:15And yeah, 17-inch wheels, upright riding position.
02:18Most of it's pretty, pretty basic, you might say.
02:21And with that, we will fire it up.
02:24This 750cc engine, you can take a look at this pretty simple little two-color LCD dash.
02:35And a sort of a little thumpy exhaust note.
02:39Yeah, I think we're just about ready to ride.
02:45The only difference today is that instead of grabbing a clutch lever and putting my
02:51toe on the shifter, I'm just going to reach over here, this little button here, rocker
02:59switch, and you'll see it's in neutral.
03:02If I push D, you'll hear a little click, and we're in drive.
03:07And now we just twist the throttle and we go.
03:12No clutch engagement by the rider necessary whatsoever.
03:24First a typical run-through of the specifications, as we normally do here on Daily Rider.
03:31We mentioned the engine size, Honda does not have claimed numbers for horsepower and torque.
03:40Rarely do, in my experience.
03:42Especially not on a bike like this, because it's not going to really make a lot of noise
03:44about it.
03:45If you Google NC750 dyno numbers, you'll see what I saw, which is like low 50s for horsepower
03:54and about 50 foot-pounds of torque.
03:57And obviously, you know, that's a, it's significant, not because the numbers are big, but because
04:02the numbers are similar.
04:04You don't normally see torque numbers that are almost as high as the horsepower, unless
04:09it's like a, you know, Goldwing or a Rocket 3 or something.
04:14We'll talk more about engine dynamic later.
04:16But yeah, not going to knock your socks off with performance, as we'll find out.
04:21Weight was 493 pounds with a full 3.7 gallons of fuel under the seat.
04:29And that'll be higher than you see on the Honda website.
04:31The weight listed is for the manual transmission, and the DCT does way more.
04:35Anyway, that was what it tipped the daily rider scales at.
04:39And last specification, 31.6 inch seat height, which is pretty approachable.
04:46The only real downside to the approachability of this bike is the weight, which better part
04:50of 500 pounds is a little bit big for a motorcycle.
04:54Normally we talk about riding position at this point in the ride, but I do want to address
04:58the dual clutch transmission before I forget.
05:01And also, if you're not familiar with the DCT, it could be one of your biggest curiosities.
05:07So a quick explanation, I'm not going to get into super technical details, but basically
05:11the way it works, it's not a CVT style transmission like on a scooter.
05:16It's basically a standard motorcycle sequential gear transmission with two clutches.
05:21And one of the clutches works for first gear, third gear, and fifth gear.
05:25The other clutch works for second gear, fourth gear, and sixth gear.
05:28And the clutches disengage and engage at appropriate timing so that the gearing of
05:33the bike changes without there being an interruption with a clutch pull.
05:37It's pretty nifty technology, something Honda's been working on for a long time.
05:42And the DCT option on motorcycles has been around for more than 10 years now, and it's
05:47been slowly refined and worked through.
05:51And I would have to say it's better than ever.
05:54All right, we're merging out onto the open road here, and now we can talk about ergonomics
06:06and rider triangle and that kind of thing.
06:08You probably won't be surprised to hear that the NC750 is a very reasonable motorcycle.
06:13Reasonable is kind of its middle name.
06:15The only two things that I don't get along with on the NC750, in part because of my size
06:22a couple inches over six feet tall, one of which is leg room, which I think because Honda
06:27tried to make the seat nice and low for it to be approachable for people, the seat to
06:30peg ratio is a little tight.
06:32It's not uncomfortable.
06:33It's not like a sport bike or anything.
06:34It's just less leg room than I was expecting on a bike styled like this.
06:39And the other thing you start to notice at about this speed, 65 miles an hour or so,
06:44this little windscreen here does a good job pushing air away from my torso, I'll say that.
06:52All the turbulent air kind of hits right at the bottom of my helmet and it makes it kind
06:55of loud.
06:56And you might be hearing that, actually, in the microphone.
07:01So if it were my bike, I would either cut this down, like trim down the windscreen or
07:06find a smaller one so that my helmet was in clean air, or I would get a slightly larger
07:11one, a couple of hires so that it would cover a little bit more of my helmet as I rode.
07:17But in general, it's a really comfortable place to sit.
07:20The seat's nice, good for many hours on the road, if that's what you want to do.
07:24And of course, it's not a very tall seat, so that's good news for shorter riders.
07:29Another thing that the NC750 does not have, which I've seen lots of people complain about,
07:34is cruise control.
07:35I can understand, you know, cruise control is always great.
07:38I get it.
07:39But I do think that from a branding standpoint, Honda has presented the NC series, NC700 before
07:46it, another NC750, which incidentally is short for New Concept, I believe, on account
07:52of the, you know, slightly different design that it represents.
07:58Honda's always presented it as a simple kind of bike, you know, it's never supposed to
08:02be luxury or kind of like high end.
08:05It includes the dual clutch technology, which is admittedly complex.
08:12But aside from that, you know, from a user standpoint, I think it's always supposed to
08:16be just easy to approach, easy to use, easy to maintain, that kind of thing.
08:21Now's the point where we usually talk about fuel mileage.
08:25Eagle-eyed viewers will see that the average for this trip is 57.1 according to the bike's
08:30computer, which is in keeping with the numbers that I've seen in my own calculations, the
08:39worst gas mileage I got on this bike so far was 50.50 and the best tank was 61, which
08:50is pretty good.
08:51I mean, it's not often you get 61 miles per gallon on a bike with an engine that's 750
08:57CCs.
08:58You know, that's usually reserved for small scooters and that kind of thing.
09:05And to take the fuel conversation a step further, I did actually see someone say that they were
09:09disappointed that the 3.7 gallon fuel tank was not larger, which is kind of, I mean,
09:133.7 is kind of small, but, you know, if you get 55, 60 miles a gallon, you're talking
09:17more than 200 miles, which I think is a pretty, pretty fair number to get out of a, for fuel
09:25range for a motorcycle.
09:28Last thing we usually talk about on this stretch of road is mirrors.
09:30I'm sure it'll come as no surprise that the mirrors on the NC750 are excellent.
09:35Very, very good.
09:36Good shape, just smooth as can be.
09:40I mean, in keeping again with the mantra of this motorcycle, just sort of to be the pocket
09:49protector of motorcycles.
09:51Make great sense, above all things.
09:54All right, and here we go, trundling into the neighborhood.
10:00We'll do our stop sign challenge where we try to do, pull out in front of me, please.
10:05Thank you so much.
10:06We try to do a zero mile an hour stop without putting our feet down.
10:10And it'll be interesting with the automatic clutch, right?
10:13Oh, first one, pretty good.
10:15Pretty good.
10:16A little bit of rear brake, that helps me control it sometimes.
10:19This is an area where the DCT has gotten a lot better, I think.
10:24I remember originally riding the NC700 probably 10 years ago-ish.
10:28I think it was 2012 actually that the bike first came to the US, memory serves.
10:35And the DCT was kind of, it was a little bit abrupt, like it would slip the clutch enough
10:40to get going, but then it would kind of dump the clutch a little bit and it wasn't super
10:43refined.
10:45And this version's better.
10:47As you, if you hit the gas hard away from a stop, it slips it a little bit longer.
10:52We'll see if we can demonstrate here.
10:54So we'll get on the gas a little harder.
10:55Oop, I had to put my foot down.
10:57So if I get on the gas harder, it slips the clutch a little bit more gently.
11:02It's uh, yeah, it's good.
11:04And it is very predictable.
11:05I think it's similar to riding a scooter with a CVT in so much as you get used to twisting
11:11the throttle and when the power hits and when the clutch engages, and I adapted to it pretty
11:16fast.
11:17I do ride a lot of different bikes, so that probably helps.
11:20But in general, it's a lot easier to use and kind of less disconcerting I think than people
11:26are worried it will be.
11:28Oh, I got a left turn in front of us, we're going to have to stop for a long time.
11:33Oh, look at that.
11:36We did it.
11:37Even with the left turn in front of us, that was a good one.
11:41That brings me to another point, which is what the NC750 has going for it, which is
11:46a low center of gravity.
11:49The wheelbase is kind of long for a bike this size.
11:51I think it's maybe more than 60 inches, which is always kind of a benchmark of a long wheelbase
11:58in my mind anyway.
12:01But because the engine is slung down low and the fuel's under the seat and the only thing
12:05here is my helmet, basically a lot of the weight is very low, which helps with low speed
12:10maneuverability, as you might expect.
12:15This traffic light usually takes a dog's age, so let's talk about the dash, shall we?
12:19Pretty simple.
12:20Fuel gauge, upper left, time up in the middle there.
12:22I can put it in neutral so I can rev it up, that'll be fun.
12:25And you can see the bar tack goes across the top there.
12:29Gear position indicator, all that kind of stuff, pretty standard.
12:35And then down at the bottom here, you've got a couple of different parameters.
12:38You can cycle through trip meters and where we looked to find air temp but couldn't earlier.
12:47I like seeing the average fuel mileage.
12:48Let's bring that back up here.
12:50Yeah.
12:51And then ride modes.
12:52So you've got standard, you've got sport, you've got a user mode that you can customize,
12:56rain, and then your standard mode, which is my favorite, I think.
13:02It just seems the most reasonable and I like to lug an engine anyway, so that's the one
13:06I usually stick with.
13:07To be more specific about the ride modes, there are parameters there.
13:11The user one is customizable for power, delivery power map, engine braking, trash control,
13:18and the drive mode, which has a few settings.
13:21So I appreciate that Honda did that because after all, the bike is shifting for you.
13:28So it stands to reason that we motorcyclists would want some amount of customizability
13:35there.
13:36And you have it, which is nice.
13:39All right, Lovers Lane, looking kind of spooky today with all this fog around.
13:48And the passenger report, fairly simple on the NC750.
13:52My lady friend said it was good.
13:54She expected the seat to be a little higher in the back so she could see over my shoulders
13:58a little better, but in general said it was pretty comfortable.
14:02Not a lot of complaints and not, you know, sort of a passenger.
14:07Passenger review is similar to what a rider's review might be of the NC750, which is like,
14:12yeah, that's fine.
14:13It's pretty good.
14:15I've touched on the efficiency of the engine a couple of times so far, and one of the reasons
14:20is that it upshifts very liberally, very soon.
14:25We're going 40 miles an hour in fifth gear.
14:27That's what the bike has chosen to do because it's pulling 2500 RPM and it means we're getting
14:32pretty good mileage.
14:33And the way that it works is if you, you know, if you twist the throttle, if I open it, it
14:38downshifts to fourth and then accelerates.
14:40But of course you don't make that decision as the rider, which is a little weird.
14:44I'll admit that.
14:45But you know, it's just another one of the quirks of the NC750.
14:49I could put the NC750 into sport mode, but I'm not going to do that.
14:57Instead, I'm going to reach down and push this button here next to the gear selector
15:03where it says A slash M and I'm going to tap it so that we're in M. And what M means for
15:10what it's worth is manual.
15:13So now I can downshift and upshift with my thumb and left index finger as I please.
15:18And we can sportily attack these curves on the NC750.
15:24Again, not going to, you know, snap your neck back with acceleration.
15:30But another nifty feature of the automatic transition that you can sort of, sort of like
15:37a car paddle shifter, you can decide when you want it to make the gear change.
15:41And it's, yeah, it's different than a conventional transmission in a lot of ways.
15:48And it's not, doesn't give you the same satisfaction, I don't think.
15:52But it's, it's, I appreciate that Honda applied that to the bike and gives you some amount
15:58of control.
16:00I should say that in this manual mode, if you come to a stop, it will downshift to first
16:06for you.
16:07So it'll make that decision for you because it'll eventually, the RPMs will go so low
16:10that the engine can't do that and it'll downshift for you.
16:13But if you downshift to first gear and you want to just go, there we go, bouncing off
16:20the rev limiter in first gear, you can do that.
16:23If you want to.
16:24I don't know why you'd want to do that.
16:25We got a yellow light.
16:39Let's talk about brakes, shall we?
16:41Get into the ABS a little bit, yeah.
16:46The weight of the bike at, you know, 500 pounds basically, and one disc up front is a little
16:54bit suspicious.
16:55And I will say the brakes are not, the front brake especially, is not tuned the way I like.
17:01I like lots of bite when you first get on the brake to have a nice sharp bite from the
17:05pads.
17:07But I don't think that that suits the personality of the NC750 and I think that's probably one
17:11of the reasons that the bike doesn't feel that way.
17:14And so I'm not going to condemn the machine for that or Honda because I think it arguably
17:19makes some sense.
17:20And the truth is, when you do jump on the brakes, even if the bite isn't super severe
17:25at the beginning, if you squeeze hard on the lever, there's lots of power there.
17:29So in general, yeah, not a lot of complaints.
17:33On the topic of brakes, actually, the bike defaults to being in neutral when you're stopped,
17:41parked, or otherwise, you know, kickstand down, basically.
17:46So you might be thinking, what if I park on a hill?
17:47I'm just going to roll away.
17:48I can't leave it in gear.
17:50Good point.
17:52And Honda applied an emergency brake.
17:54So there you go.
17:55E-brake on, in neutral.
17:58Can't move the bike.
17:59And then you just, you know, disengage it with that little button there.
18:05Another little quirky feature of an NC750, an emergency brake.
18:11And away we go.
18:12Giving it full stick.
18:15Raa!
18:18Not a particularly frisky engine, no.
18:21It's, as I talked about in specs in the beginning, you know, it's torque rich and not a lot happens
18:27when you rev it up.
18:28So it's really not designed to do that.
18:29But I will say, shooting away from stoplights or stop signs, it's, you're really in the
18:35meat of the power for the engine, which makes it kind of fun.
18:40And actually, I'll go a step further and say that a lot of modern engines start to feel
18:46kind of like this.
18:47If you think about it, you know, like the big 270 crank parallel twin Triumphs and Yamaha's
18:53700 cc parallel twin they have in the R7 and MT07, 10R700.
18:59Those engines are more playful than this one, certainly, but it's not totally different.
19:05I mean, they're very, they're torque rich and they have a lot of grunt and it's fun
19:11to use around town.
19:13But there's been an interesting skew toward that type of engine since the NC700 came out
19:17a decade ago.
19:20And I think that it speaks to people's interests of using an engine in a way that is more practical
19:29than having an R6 engine that makes awesome power above 12,000 RPM, but you don't really,
19:35it's like hard to spend time at that high an RPM realistically.
19:40Oh, the bump is always a little bigger than I expect.
19:48And it actually reminds me to talk a little bit about the suspension, which it's not bad
19:56on the NC750.
19:57It's just kind of, it's just a little bit unrefined for what I've come to expect from
20:04Honda.
20:05It feels a little harsh.
20:06Like it's kind of sitting low in the stroke.
20:07And when you hit a sharp bump, you get a kind of a jolt in your wrist and I don't think
20:13it's like unwieldy or dangerous in any way.
20:17But worth noting that I think the tuning could be a little better from the factory.
20:22Anyway, here we go into the off-road section of our daily ride.
20:29And you know, maybe, maybe some people wouldn't be thinking that this is a very astute thing
20:35to do with an NC750, but it does kind of have a quasi ADV look to it, right?
20:40So it kind of makes sense.
20:42So let's see if we can turn off the trash control here.
20:45Yeah, here we go.
20:46TC, I'm going to turn down, I'm going to hold the down, but yeah, there we go.
20:50TC off.
20:51We get a light up here.
20:52Yeah, there we go.
20:53All right.
20:54So now we're in user mode.
20:55We have no trash control, automatic transmission, and we're going to get swazy on this NC750.
21:05Just like any bike.
21:06Oh, that's a nasty rock.
21:08I always hit that.
21:11Just like any bikes, more fun with trash control off, especially when you're in the dirt.
21:17Oh, we can, we can hit these little rollers here.
21:21Oh my gosh.
21:22The sand is pretty sketchy.
21:25There's not a lot of, not a lot of travel in general.
21:29I think it's less than five inches, maybe 4.7 inches front and back, so it's not a ton
21:34there.
21:35A little jumpy.
21:36Oh.
21:37Oh my gosh.
21:38Oh, ABS is freaking out in the gravel.
21:43Oh boy.
21:45That was a wild ride.
21:46All right.
21:47Kicking up some more dust out onto the tarmac where this little sucker belongs.
21:54All right.
21:55Let's go to manual mode.
21:56I'm going to go down to first gear and we're going to see if we can coax a wheelie out
22:01of this sucker.
22:02And I think peak torque is like 4,500 RPM, so let's, here, oh boy, that's a feeble little
22:10wheelie.
22:11Let's see if we can coax a wheelie out.
22:16Passenger pegs?
22:20Little bit better.
22:21Not much of a wheelie though.
22:22You can definitely wheelie it.
22:24It's doable.
22:25Just got, I don't know, need to take more time than I have, I guess.
22:32Can we back it in?
22:34Not really.
22:36Certainly not where there's an ambulance.
22:37The ambulance driver is looking at her phone also.
22:39That's a nice touch.
22:40Anywho, I should mention that you can actually use the manual shifters in automatic mode
22:47as well for what it's worth.
22:49So you can, yeah, you can ask, you can request that the bike shift and sometimes it will
22:55and sometimes it won't.
22:56But it's handy, I think, at low speed, especially in the first and second gear area, because
23:02that's a place where the dual clutch transmission is a little bit clunky sometimes when it thinks
23:08you're going to go a little slower and then it downshifts the first right as you get on
23:10the gas and it's a little herky jerky.
23:13You know, it's a really tough thing to predict, I think.
23:17So I'm not going to be too hard on the bike, but that's definitely a place where I tend
23:21to use the manual shifting.
23:22Okay, U-turn test.
23:24Get as close to this van as we can.
23:26Oh, God, I have to put my foot down.
23:28That's embarrassing.
23:29Full lock.
23:30No feet down.
23:31Eh, eh.
23:32Two plus.
23:33Yeah, two.
23:34Two plus parking spaces, which I was thinking this bike maybe will do it in two parking
23:42spaces.
23:43It feels pretty good at low speed.
23:46No complaints about the turning radius.
23:49Just about the transmission sometimes doing U-turns.
23:53Anyway, I'm getting a little bit off topic.
23:58I got to, whoop, oh, I killed the, ha, killed the engine because I didn't put it in neutral.
24:03So normally, kickstand up and you're in drive, you got to like, tap neutral, put it in neutral,
24:07then put the kickstand down, then get off in the parking lot to rev it up and super
24:11impress your friends.
24:13It's kind of a cool noise, I think, actually.
24:21Certainly a cooler noise than the bike has a reputation for being, which, you know, it
24:28definitely, like I said, has a reputation for being sort of the pack protector of bikes,
24:32a little bit dorky and practical, but, you know, I can't fault it for what it is.
24:38It's unapologetic.
24:39I kind of like that about it.
24:40All right, before we get into Instagram questions, let me just check my documents, see if there's
24:48anything I forgot to talk about.
24:50Oh, yeah.
24:53So this is a statistic from August of 2020.
24:55In the past 12 months, 57% of Goldwings and 38% of Africa Twins sold in the US were DCTs.
25:03So that is an illustration of how popular the DCT is.
25:04More than half of Goldwings from, you know, middle of 2019 to middle of 2020 were automatic
25:11DCTs, which arguably makes sense with a Goldwing, right?
25:14But even, you know, almost 40% of Africa Twins, which might seem like a high number to you.
25:19And I don't know what the spec is or the statistic is for NCs, but I would think it's fairly
25:24high as well.
25:25So there you go.
25:26All right, first question here is from Tamim59, who asks, can it be someone's first bike or
25:35is it too much?
25:36I think that's the question.
25:38And absolutely be someone's first bike, for sure.
25:40A little bit heavy.
25:41So I'd swing a leg over it at a showroom or something like that to make sure you feel
25:44comfortable with the weight and the size of it.
25:47But as far as temperament and performance and capability and maintenance and dealer
25:51network and all that stuff, I mean, yeah, great first bike as long as the size and weight
25:55is okay with you.
25:56So ride safe.
26:00Next question is from Occasional Spoonerism, who asks, how does it compare to the NC700X?
26:05Is there a noticeable bump in power or is it pretty much the same bike?
26:08Yeah.
26:09So good question.
26:10The Redline went up from around 6,000 RPM to about 7,000 RPM, which of course is a pretty
26:14big jump.
26:15The displacement came by way of bore.
26:17It used to be a 73 mil bore with an 80 mil stroke, which is under square, they call that.
26:24And that's uncommon in motorcycle engines.
26:26Almost all motorcycle engines are over square.
26:29And they added bore to this one.
26:30So it's a 77 mil bore with an 80 mil stroke, still under square, but less so.
26:35So it's moving a little bit more toward a traditional motorcycle engine.
26:38And yeah, it does.
26:39It arguably feels a little bit more traditional in that sense.
26:42Slightly higher Redline, a little bit less anemic in the top of the revs, but still definitely
26:47a gentle demeanor for sure.
26:50While we're on the topic of the NC700X, actually, I did notice in my research to do with the
26:55seat height, that the NC700 that I rode in 2012, we listed the seat height at 32.7 inches.
27:02That is 1.1 inches higher than the 31.6 it is now, which I think might be one of the
27:07reasons that seat felt surprisingly low.
27:10Next question is from Nate Baird, who says, that frunk is crunk.
27:13Will it fit an ADV style helmet with a peak?
27:17I don't think so.
27:18No.
27:19I feel like we, so this is, this again is a medium RF1400 that's in here, but Airy tried
27:27to put a small GT Air in there and it did not fit.
27:33In part because the GT Air has some like facets on the back of the helmet, some kind of like
27:37aerodynamic stuff that I feel like made it, made it so that it didn't fit.
27:43My old RF1200 Shoei with a communicator on it does fit in there.
27:49So it's like, it's a little bit tricky to know exactly what's going to fit and what's
27:53not.
27:54I don't think an ADV helmet with a peak will fit, but maybe if you took it off and tucked
27:57it inside or something, it would work.
27:59Next question is from Mark E. who asks, automatic transmission, built in storage, why not buy
28:02a big scooter instead?
28:05Fair question, right?
28:06A couple of things though.
28:07I guess one, you can get this with a manual transmission, in which case you get a, you
28:12know, polite, gentle commuter bike, but it has a manual transmission and it has the,
28:17you know, waterproof storage and that kind of thing, which I think is pretty neat.
28:19So it's sort of a, it's a bridge concept in some ways, which I think is fair.
28:25Another reason I think is just the look of it, right?
28:27Like maybe you don't want to, maybe you do want a scooter, but you don't want to look
28:29like you're riding a scooter.
28:31And I think that's fair, right?
28:33I mean, people buy R6s instead of MT-09s because they want to look dope and like they're riding
28:37a sport bike, but there's, an R6 isn't better than an MT-09.
28:41I mean, if you're going to the racetrack or something, maybe, but like as a sport bike
28:45on twisty roads or something, it's not better in any appreciable way.
28:49It's just people want to look cool.
28:50They want to look like they're on a sport bike.
28:52And if you want to look like you're on a quasi ADV kind of, you know, bike, I mean, across
28:58the city, you don't want to look like you're on a scooter.
28:59I think that's fair.
29:01Next question is from Danny Brecker, who says, does it spark joy?
29:06Which I like this question.
29:07You know, it has a reputation for being a dorky dad bike, whatever.
29:10We talked about that.
29:12For me, it does spark joy because I just think anything with two wheels and an engine is
29:17great.
29:18And I think that it has, I like that it has a specific purpose and it separates itself
29:20in a certain way.
29:22So yeah.
29:24And I also think that, you know, there was so much hate I got on the Instagram post for
29:28this bike and people being like, oh, automatic transmission is so lame, like barf, that bike
29:33shouldn't even exist.
29:34Like if you can't shift a transmission, you shouldn't even ride a motorcycle.
29:37And I just don't agree with that at all.
29:40I feel like, you know, if you hear some band playing that you don't like, you know, and
29:44someone's like, I'm going to see that band.
29:46I don't personally, I don't think, oh man, that's, they shouldn't even allow that band
29:49to have concerts.
29:50It's so lame.
29:51No, of course not.
29:52It's a ridiculous thing to say.
29:54You should think like, all right, well, I don't want to hear that person play music,
29:57that band play music.
29:58But if someone else does, cool, enjoy.
30:00And that's how you should feel about this bike, in my opinion.
30:03All right.
30:04Maybe enough life lectures for now.
30:06Next question is from Smedz, or Smedz, or Smedz, one of those, who asks, if you could
30:12describe its character or personality in a single word or name, what would it be?
30:17Love this question.
30:18I should, I should do this with all bikes.
30:23I want to say like practical or something, but that's like a little bit of a, that's
30:28phoning it in.
30:29I think what I would say is thoughtful.
30:31That's how I would, it's, it's the, yeah.
30:34It's a very thoughtfully designed bike.
30:36And that's what I think is, is special about it.
30:39You know, you might think that it's too slow or too heavy or, or too expensive or if whatever,
30:45whatever you problem you have with it, but you can't deny that it's a different take
30:49on a motorcycle and it has, it has features and capabilities and, and a, and a sort of
30:55a mantra and a goal that is a little bit different than, than most motorcycles.
30:59And I think I really appreciate that.
31:01Thanks as always for your awesome Instagram questions.
31:04Let's put the sucker on the daily rider leaderboard and I can let you go.
31:07Okay.
31:08Hey everybody.
31:09Here we are inside Rev's Zillow S daily rider leaderboard, Spurge looking over our shoulder
31:13as usual.
31:14And we have Honda's NC750XDCT ready to go on the board.
31:21Pretty safe to say it's going to be up near the top, right?
31:24Friendly reminder what is up at the top there.
31:27BMW GS, Ducati Multistrada, Kawasaki Versys.
31:32And yeah, NC750 is going to be near the top, right?
31:34I mean, that thing was made for the daily ride.
31:37Was it not?
31:38Versys 650.
31:39What do you think?
31:40I don't think so.
31:44Versys 650 is more fun, better wheelies, more energy, almost as good gas mileage, technically
31:51does come with luggage, right?
31:53It comes with saddlebags.
31:55So Versys 650 is going to keep that spot.
31:57Is it better than a Tracer 9 GT?
32:00Uh, it's simpler and everything, and this bike's kind of expensive, but it's way too
32:07much fun.
32:08Tracer 9 GT, way too much fun.
32:10Quick shifter, rip in engine, lots of technology.
32:13Also comes with some saddlebags.
32:14So we give it a little bit of a half point there.
32:19Triumph Tiger 850 Sport, the daily rider that time forgot.
32:24No one ever talks about this bike.
32:26Very good daily rider.
32:27Also not especially interesting though.
32:31So yeah, we're going here.
32:34In betwixt the Tracer 9 GT and the Triumph Tiger 850 Sport.
32:38So that is a top five finish for the NC 750, which I think is pretty darn good.
32:45All right.
32:46And the leaderboard again, getting pretty full.
32:48I think we have room for one more bike, maybe two, and then we'll do a reset.
32:52So stay tuned for that.
32:53In the meantime, thank you for sticking around for this ride.
32:57As usual, I hope you enjoyed yourself at least a little bit and hope you learned a thing
33:01or two.
33:02See you next time, everybody.
33:03Corvette guy?
33:04Give Corvette guy a little rev?
33:05I can't really give him a rev.
33:08I don't think Corvette guy would be particularly enthralled with the NC 750.
33:11It doesn't seem like a Corvette kind of motorcycle, does it?
33:15Unless Corvette guy likes the automatic transmission.
33:17Oh, can you imagine the scandal?
33:20Poor Corvette guy only having automatics.
33:22Oh boy, that would be juicy.