well as for highway riding, i dont do much of it and dont do highway riding if i dont have to. but if i do, my rebel 450 bobber that im working on can do that pretty well.
for the most part, my routes are all on 30-50 mph roads, which the 175 should be fine.
im a little guy, 135, 5'8" (barely) and the gs weighing 450 lbs, was alot for me. it always felt bulky. having a cl125 and knowing how light it is and how nimble it is on turns, it just feels better. (it weighs like 200lbs) but cl175's weigh in at about 300, and its size is right between my cl125 and my gs550, so i think it'll be perfect.
plans, well i have a few things in mind. the gs550 was a little too big for clubmans, as when i put them o i was reaching too far forward, so i put those drag bars on upsidedown, maybe the 175 will be different. so options this time are clubmans, flipped drag bars, clip ons.
i picked up this graphite pearl color. its a REALLY really dark warm grey mettallic color, made to mach honda cars in that color. it looks really cool.
heres a honda car i found online painted in that color:
also this timei may go with the round bumpstop on it, since the last one i did had the squareish one. not sure.
ill tell ya one thing though, i like the short exaust on it alot.
when i get it tonight im gonna stare at it for a couple of hours and figure more stuff out that i wanna do, ill start a build thread tonight too.