Rather new dealer in Chandler Arizona. Saw they had a new 400i for sale. Went and looked at it Friday. Beautiful black model. Seat height was 32 inches, (my 2007 is 30.5). 400i seat is softer, so when setting on it the seat compresses down to about the same height. Handle bars about 1 inch or so closer, and that is fine with me as the 500 bars always needed to come back about 1 inch or so, but no big deal. With feet stretched out full forward position, it seems my feet were back about 1 inch closer than on my 500. No big deal. Ride, much nicer, soaked up bumps and road irregularities like a gold wing. Brakes much much better. Is a little faster than my 500, but it is a 500 carbed model with 33 gram weights. Rpm about 6000 at 80 miles per hour. Big improvement! It should get much better MPG. Very quite and much smoother. Unless they bring in the AN 500 twin, this may be my next bike? I am going to start saving 4 a new one ASAP. Saw a you tube video where a guy had just returned from a vacation trip, 2 up fully loaded with after market hard bags, trunk etc. Stated 400i was able to do everything a huge touring bike could do except do 150 MPH. Said, why would anyone spend 20-25,000 $ when you could have this bike for 6,000? The 400i could do 80-85 MPH all day long with the much less RPM's than the 500 does at freeway speeds. I was more than very very impressed. Can't say any thing bad about the bike.
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