Yamaha have the FJR 1300
Honda have the ST 1300
Kawasaki have the Concours 1400
What do Suzuki have? Have I missed something here?
The Bandit does not rate with the other three so its out of this class.
Yamaha have the FJR 1300
Honda have the ST 1300
Kawasaki have the Concours 1400
What do Suzuki have? Have I missed something here?
The Bandit does not rate with the other three so its out of this class.
The only thing I could find was a Kizashi.. Over endowed in the wheel dept though.
Suzuki don't have one, they have some great bases they could use, such as the Hayabusa to match the Concours, there's the GSX1400 which would go well with a fairing and luggage kit or they could use the 1250S Bandit with its electric-smooth engine and amazing torque plus it's liquid-cooled.
The V-strom is a great adventure bike but not up to matching the other's offerings in performance, it'd need too much work.
Suzuki used to have the Cavalcade, so they can do one, but it's an interesting question for sure!
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Not so much engine size (cos doesn't matter right?) but straight out Tourer, Suzuki dont have one.
The GSX, while more than capable of doing all that is asked of it, is not a dedicated Tourer.
Same with the Busa and the V Strom.
That Cavalcade? was that Suzuki's answer to the Goldwing?
The closest would be the recent FA variant of the 1250 bandit, but agree it isn't a direct class compeitor
http://www.suzuki.co.nz/Motorcycle/Street/GSX1250FA/
BIG FAT EDIT: wow zook is $16500 ride away and a connie 14 is $28000 ......... you could fit a lot of farkles to the zook for 10,000 and still have 1500 left for beer and pizza!
Edit 2: After a bit of googling the major diff is chain final drive on the zook and shafties for the others.
Originally Posted by Albert
A de-tuned Hayabusa engined tourer...
I'm sending a copy of my C.V. to Suzuki Inc.!
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
I am ever hopeful that Suzuki-san will heed my advice and make a shaft-driven variant of the Hyabusa. I am increasingly confident about this happening because he recently adopted my other suggestion about putting the GSXR-750 engine into a naked.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Suzuki doesn't have one.
But the V Strom is a great bike to tour the country.
I thought that was what the GSXR1000 was for?
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