Oakie
21st July 2009, 09:30
I have until tomorrow night to decide.
Mrs Oakie's bike is sold and I've narrowed down the choice of a replacement bike for the two of us to a 600cc Bandit or a 750cc Katana.
I've looked at endless stats on them and read reviews and while I've always fancied the Bandit, there is a ridiculously cheap 08 Katana floating around that I have my eye on for only a few hundred more than the Bandits.
So ... ignoring the difference in age, can anyone offer any insight to the relative merits of a 2001/2003 600 Bandit (partly faired) and a late model 750 Katana (fully faired). I need to say that I do prefer the more upright style of the Bandit over the slight lean required by the Katana just for comfort of back and wrists)
It will be used for the daily 36km round trip work commute (a goodly part of it on a 70kph road), short day trips in the weekend and once or twice a year for a serious tour.
Cost of ownership is important to me ('coz I'm a tight-arse) so any stories about that would be good as would a reliable figure on fuel consumption of either bike as I've found wildly differing fugures for each on the 'net.
Mrs Oakie's bike is sold and I've narrowed down the choice of a replacement bike for the two of us to a 600cc Bandit or a 750cc Katana.
I've looked at endless stats on them and read reviews and while I've always fancied the Bandit, there is a ridiculously cheap 08 Katana floating around that I have my eye on for only a few hundred more than the Bandits.
So ... ignoring the difference in age, can anyone offer any insight to the relative merits of a 2001/2003 600 Bandit (partly faired) and a late model 750 Katana (fully faired). I need to say that I do prefer the more upright style of the Bandit over the slight lean required by the Katana just for comfort of back and wrists)
It will be used for the daily 36km round trip work commute (a goodly part of it on a 70kph road), short day trips in the weekend and once or twice a year for a serious tour.
Cost of ownership is important to me ('coz I'm a tight-arse) so any stories about that would be good as would a reliable figure on fuel consumption of either bike as I've found wildly differing fugures for each on the 'net.