Shadow Spirit C2 rider here. This is my first bike and I can tell you I made the best choice possible for me. It's so great!

The Honda Shadows and the VTX lineup were probably the best cruisers Honda ever made. My favorite Shadows were the 1100 ‘s. A larger size bike, more power, and shaft drive. They last for ever, and usually not that many used ones for sale because nobody wants to get rid of them.

I bought my 07 Shadow Spirit 750 as my first bike a few months back and I'm absolutely in love with it. Although there are other bikes out there I would absolutely love to own, I just can't bring myself to trade it in anytime soon. It's been so good to me.

I had a this one in black!!! Full windshield, aux front lights, engine bars... had it for over 10 years!!! best bike I owed. Ended up selling it due to a divorce... I was so sad when I sold it. Even today when I see one I remember mine... Great bike for sure!!!!

Mine is 21 years old and still looks like it came out the create last year

I got one of these 5-6 months back. A 2011 Aero in black. I watched a lot of videos about them (especially riding ones) and instantly fell in love with it when I sat on it. I'll admit it was a bit of departure from sportier bikes I had ridden, but its real comfortable and the purr of the v-twin is excellent. I really like that it doesn't struggle with hills due to that low down torque. It does weigh more than a lot of bikes, but the weight is low and very easy to manage. When you keep your mindset in "cruise" mode - it's an incredibly satisfying bike. I love my Shadow 750 - I get a lot of people come up and talk to me about it too.

My dad recommended a Honda shadow 750 to me for my first bike. He had one as his first that was configured to be a chopper but has since got a Harley. I'm also a shorter rider so I think this'll be good for boosting my confidence when I do eventually get my hands on the bike

I bought one of these yesterday, and took it out for the first long ride today. THIS IS NOT A BEGINNER BIKE. I've been driving a motorcycle for 15 years... my first assessment is thats it's big, it's weird, it's pretty, and it's dangerous. Like riding on top of a locomotive. A Road King or Road Glide supersized level bike. Not a beginner bike. I'm keeping it, but only because I'm an experienced rider. Get a classic Honda Rebel 250 as your first bike. Not the new one. The old one, that is very flickable and light weight.

a 2001 Shadow 750 ACE was my first bike. She was my daily rider for 4 years without 1 second of trouble. Oil changes, chain lube, and brake pads took minutes. The previous owner put on 13000 km in the 6 years he had it and i put on another 9 in my 4 years.

I started on a 750 Spirit. After a couple years I went to a Sabre1100. Basically the same bike with just a bit more room and a bit more power. Trouble is now my local Honda dealers will no longer work on any bike over 10 years old. At 70 years old I can't see buying a new bike $$$ so I'll just keep changing the oil and ride it till one of us gives out.

I’ve rode a lot of Honda motorcycles growing up and some different Honda cruisers. I really like the Shadow bikes I’ve rode.

Caught the riding bug again after a 10 year break. Found a 02 750 ACE last year. It wasn't my top choice but couldn't refuse the low miles, near mint condition, a bunch of accessories and dirt cheap! The critics are right. She's definately not a speed demon. And you'll have to downsize the rear sprocket if you want to hang with highway traffic. For me though, at my age, the bike is plenty good enough. She's perfectly fine for sightseeing on the secondary roads in comfort and style. Cruising @ 60 is just right. Power and braking is adequate. Not sure about 2 up riding though. If that's what your plan is, especially long distance, I would go with a bigger engine.

Yes I have a 2008 Honda Shadow Aero I have learned to write on that motorcycle I thoroughly enjoy it I've only been riding a couple years I am 66 years old out having fun on it😅

97 750 Shadow ACE was my First and still is my Bike. Sometimes i miss some Power😅 but it never let me down so i keep loving and riding it. 👍

I own and ride a 2004 Honda Shadow, Aero. It's new to me and I have a few complaints. While traveling a US Hiway at the speed of 55 MPH. I find it mundane to follow a car at this speed. Passing speed is no problem. Accelerating to a velocity of over 75 MPH is no problem. Although I would not want to maintain such speed. It does well anyway. I have had it at a velocity of over 100 Mph. I did not feel comfortable doing so. But, it did it well. No speed wobble at all. A hot rod, it is not. A cruiser it definitely is. I am happy with my Shadow. My Shadow and me. 😊 My only complaint. No center stand and no fuel gauge. And even after 20 years of manufacturing, it is still the same. WTF Honda?

I’m sold Dude going to get a Honda Shadow 750. Thank you Peace

My son had one years ago, and I got to ride around on it. I found it to be very enjoyable and competent for everything I put it through. The crotch rocket jockies think everything with less than 150 hp is underpowered. Simply not true. For normal, rational riding, and touring, the Shadow is a perfectly good bike for ANY rider. It's a cruiser...not a sports bike. I've owned a Honda CB 750, and a couple of Goldwings. Currently ride an 1800 Wing. I don't know why we seek to belittle a bike by calling it a "beginner" bike. What is that anyway? I know riders with 30, 40 years of experience who have ridden well over a hundred thousand miles. As we get older, we learn to appreciate these " beginner bikes" for their ease of handling, low maintainance, and just plain fun riding. If you judge a bike's worth by its top end speed, you probably also measure a woman's worth by her bra size. Either way, you'd be wrong.

Bought a 1998 on Saturday for $1900. Once I get it titled and registered and have my license, I'm taking it out on FM roads

What the … I am saving for a Honda shadow I don’t no they were that cheap. I have 2000 saved. Now. And in 5 more weeks I’ll have 4000. I hope I can buy one

Honda vt750 shadow ace rider Bike is 27 years old 25000km but still looks and handles as a brand new bike. Had only problem with the fuelpump last week but otherwise a very reliable bike. And thinking about buying a second one to customise😅

My favorites are the shadow aero, and Suzuki C50

I have a 2007 shadow spirit 750 DC. I bought it for $2500 with only 3000 miles on it. I sunk in $120 in the first two weeks on simple maintenance plugs and new gas. And the bike is giving me zero problems I know have almost 6000 on it. I keep looking a bigger bikes, and test drove bigger bikes yet can’t seem to find a reason to get rid of my shadow

You are praising this magnificient bike... while this gem is not available in Europe due to environmental regulations. Fed up of European politicians.

I have a 04 750 now because of this vid I have to get another shadow thanks alot you enabler

Had a shadow 750 aero a few years ago, it was an '08 carbureted version loved it but i sold it when I bought a vtx 1300, I do wish I had that shadow sometimes if I ever do buy another shadow it would be a fuel injected version for sure, either aero or phantom would be cool to

I just watched this, and then I re watched your other video about if it's any good. I have to agree on both parts about fulfilling about 95% of the needs. I inherited a 2012 Aero 750 1.5 years ago and it got me back interested in motorcycling after I stopped riding about 30 years ago after a gnarly accident on a dirt bike in the SoCal desert when I was active duty USAF. It's a great bike for beginners and intermediates and is a ton of fun and fills most squares for getting around...except on the interstates much above 70mph. I've had mine to 80 before on an interstate just to get to the next exit and it was fine, but I'm not sure I'd want to cruise for hours. The Aero 750 happy place to me is right around 60-65, and I love just tooling around the countryside around 50-55. That said, while it is a great bike to rebuild my confidence and skill, last fall I bought a 2014 Triumph Tbird Commander 1700 (not a beginner bike) and OMG. I'm at 60mph in just under 4 seconds in 2nd gear without trying and I have to keep backing off because 80 just happens...lol. Still low CG, super comfortable seat, and super stable at low speeds too. Selling my Shadow because that was the deal I made with the wife...lol.

My dad's first bike was a Shadow 650. We're both Harley guys and he has one that we use for the commute every now and then, but I will admit that I'd like to try taking one out for a ride to see what it's like. THey don't offer it where I live, sadly.

If you find a phantom buy it's also a great Honda bike

Got one, I like it

Every day, I discover another reason to h8t3 this bike. It looks pretty, but it just is not designed well... at all. A lot of poor design decisions... every where. I don't know how it got a good reputation, because it definitely doesn't deserve it. Instead of the old excellent 80's Honda design philosophy, they copied Harley to make Harley looking bike, and everything bad about Harley came right along with it.

Sooo. I’ve got a question. One thing I’ve never seen through is putting the Apes on. I’ve done other things. But, like you said in the on video “it seemed like such a monumental task”. Finding the right size cables and lines. Plus it’s not like a Harley, everything aftermarket is made for Harleys. Honda and other Metrics, not so much. So.. back to the question. What size clutch line did you have to go with?

Nice just picked up an 07 750 aero for 2800 10k miles 😁

They should update the shadow abs crius control traction control would be a top seller

My mom just gave me hers!

Another great video. Love it!!!! Honda Shadow all the way!!!!

They should make one with a bigger motor like they had before.

I would never have a bike with spokes again. Spokes means tubes. Mag wheels mean tubeless. The difference between having your bike towed home with a flat tire or plugging it and keep going.

Love this content

I disagree with the low center of gravity

The drum brake , spoked wheels, and chain drive are a deal breaker for me. I was going to buy a Honda Sabre 1100 but bought a 2002 VTX 1800R instead. 3 grand.😊

I got a cb500f.

My 2004 Honda Shadow Sabre 1100 is better than HD

Well, i can recomment you a VN900. Better in everything, belt drive, FI, ... and still produced. Parts are all over.

My is a 2013 and I love it 👍👍👍

I want to buy a bike and i have 3 options:yamaha virago 535,yamaha dragster 650 and honda shadow 750.This will be my first bike,what do u say guys,which should be my first,which is better for a beginner?

But, I already have one! Take care, ride safe.

buy a Honda Shadow? No way. Honda Shadow is for guys that can't afford a good cruiser.

Underpowered but handles pretty decent. Not sure what the thrill is with v twins because the in-line 4 750cc Honda will run circles around the v twin 750. And it’s still not a Harley just a wanna be that’s more dependable. Give me the cb750 - cb1000 any day.

What size APES are those? Require cable swap?

Are these easy to work on ?

a grossly underpowered motorcycle can be as, if not more, dangerous for a new rider then an over powered bike and the 2nd gen shadow 750 definitely qualifies as underpowered with one of the worst power to weight ratios of any modern midrange street motorcycle. the shadow 750 has less horsepower than a 70's era honda CB450 in fact, not only is the HP of the shadow 750 about half that of the smaller suzuki SV650 but also half the HP of the old 80's yamaha xj650. an experienced rider will know within 2 blocks what the shadow can do and what you shouldn't even try to do, a newer rider has no idea what the bike can't do until they can't do it which can be too late especially when that one thing is not being able to keep up with the flow of traffic on a highway incline when the traffic is doing 80+. the shadow is an ok around town stoplight to stoplight bike or highway cruiser when the hwys are long and flat but areas where there are lots of hills and high speed traffic the 2nd gen shadow is one of the worst bikes you can own .......

I just like mine, I don't love it. The only single thing the Shadow really seems going for it is that... it's pretty. I've only owned mine a month and already I got a laundry list of hurt: Things I loathe about my Shadow (compared to my 80's Honda bikes): 1) The ignition key is danging off the side. I have to take it off my key ring and put it back on every time I get on or off the bike. The ignition key belongs at the top of the front forks where you can't forget it, and where it's supported and can rest on the top of the forks. You know this if you have a big wad of keys on your key chain. 2) The vacuum actuated fuel petcock had a recall on it, which failed right off the bat. When it fails, even when switched on, your bike gets zero fuel and won't crank. 3) The footpegs are too far forward; where I am use to putting my feet, there is nothing but dead air 4) The rear footpegs are sky high... you can't move your feet back and forth from front to back say if you get a leg cramp while driving 5) There's a lot of safety switch garbage on the bike that will keep the bike from cranking or just kill it and you don't know why. For example, try to put the bike in gear when the footpeg is down, and the bike just suddenly and inexplicably... dies 6) It's like driving around a piece of silvware that you have to clean and polish... all the friggin time 7) A lot of parts like the fenders are made of... not metal... but plastic. metal if it gets bent up or scratched, you and straighten out, derust, repaint. not so with plastic 8) The battery is terribly undersized for it; a new battery gives you about 60 seconds of crank time before it's flat dead 9) Why does my carb motorcycle... have an ECM computer... that could fail??? It makes no sense. 10) No fuel gauge, even though the fuel cap is right there next to the speedo on the tank. You could put a spiral rod float operated fuel gauge there instead of a gas cap. 11) No 12v out on the handlebars or cigarette lighter, to plug any accessory in, like a radar detector. I'll have to yet again tap into the headlight low beam circuit. 12) Tires are expensive for it 13) It doesn't look like you could take the head off the bike, without taking the entire engine out of the bike and disassembling everything completely. Eventually, you are going to have to do this to replace the rings and cylinder head. It doesn't look like the carb is easy to take out either, and this you have to do all the time to clean it. 14) The battery, which you have to get to all the time (like to connect jumping cables to), is under the seat, under another plastic cover, instead of off the side of the bike. Why? 15) No luggage carrying capacity whatsoever. You have to add aftermarket stuff, and there really are not any good options for a big rack on the back or sissy bar. They all are pretty small and useless. There are a few super tall sissy bars out there, but they look kind of out of place on the Shadow. I'm just going to have to build my own rack. 16) The tool and manual compartment is a disaster of design, with a separator between the two sides... one for their tools, one for the user manual. When I bought mine both were missing. Okay, so I'll stick my own bag of tools in there. No can do, the completely needless half height separator wall prevents that. Worse, there's way more space around this compartment that it could have been made substantially bigger. Ditto for making the battery box bigger, they could of done that so you could of swapped in a bigger traditional sized motorcycle battery. 17) The ECM sits on top of the battery, and you have to move it around every time you get at the battery, flexing the wires into it. I tried to find a dedicated place shuffling around in there where I wouldn't have to that, but no luck. 18) The rear fender does not go all the way down past the rear swing arm, which means you get sand and dirt every time you drive accumulating on that flat swing arm surface right in front of the rear tire. Why? I'm seriously thinking extending the rear fender with some riveted on rubber car tire material flat... or something. 19) Not a deal breaker, but the choke is located right between two hot cyldiners. Usually you only need to turn it on when they are cold... but if you forget to push it back in, and they are hot? 20) The fuel petcock directions for ON, OFF, and Reserve are shifted 90 degrees out of sync compared to all my other bikes. ON is backwards, OFF is down, and RES is forward... instead of my other bikes, where it makes a whole lot more sense... ON is up, OFF is backwards, and RES is down Honda has definitely went down hill with the Shadow or thrown common sense out the window. They were doing everything right, but I can only guess they tried to copy a Harley look, and thusly did everything... now... wrong? Just to be pretty? Or look like a Harley? I don't know. I love my other Hondas, but the Shadow.. I'm like... kind of disappointed. What went wrong here, Honda? Did you boot out all the retired engineers, and hire a bunch of millenial engineers fresh out of college who were enamored with their CAD program and never rode a motorcycle? Your really don't realize how annoying these things are about the Shadow if it's like your first bike or the only bike you've ever owned or you came from a Harley. But if like me you're a hardcore in the Honda's Camp 1980's Honda 20 year rider and still driving motorcycles from the 1970's and 1980's golden age of motorcycling... you're like, WTF Honda! Why did you screw up everything everywhere on the Shadow... you were doing most everything before... right. The Shadow 750 is not a beginners bike... I will tell you that... it's too heavy and like driving around a freight train. Start with a 125cc, 250cc.. something infinitely flicable... and then move up to a 450cc. You really don't need more than 450cc in my opinion. 750cc turned out to be overkill. It's a tradeoff, more horsepower means lower mpg. A 450 is about the right balance between the two. A 750cc you're just throwing away gas. Going from my 750cc back to my 250cc is like night and day for thrill to drive. The 250cc is so much more fun to drive.

700 close enough?

YEP!!!!!...lol...THANKS!

Uhhhh. You mention a chain. Nope. Not on yours

Lube your chain… *looks at shaft-driven shadow* 🤷‍♂️

1100

My Vulcan s 650 has 61 horsepower and cheaper.

I love my 02 Classic

Meh. No thanks