A new Suzuki adventure bike?

[young1]

Hopefully it is good....

I am on my phone at the moment and can't paste the link but have a look at www.cycleworld.com under "news". A middle weight adventure bike!

[ADVGD]

I wonder how long till we get to see a pic or see specs, but more to the point when it comes on the market.

Surprised Yamaha made a smaller version of their XT660Z Tenere, but did it in a god damn 250 seriously, wtf, a lightweight Tenere around 450cc would have been awesome

[Eddieb]

http://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle...r_-_first_look

My phone can copy and paste

[bart]

Yawn

Another soggy, fat, road bike, pretending to be a hard core, adventure/duel purpose machine? I guess we will see.

About time they upgraded the DR though.

[Crim]

Another soggy, fat, road bike, pretending to be a hard core, adventure/duel purpose machine?

That's funny - replace "road bike" with "balding middle aged bloke" and I think I have heard that exact same sentence from my wife


and my 8 year old daughter come to think of it.................... where has all the respect gone?

[bart]

That's funny - replace "road bike" with "balding middle aged bloke" and I think I have heard that exact same sentence from my wife


and my 8 year old daughter come to think of it.................... where has all the respect gone?

Hahaha....nice one

[Crisis management]

The rumours I heard via ADV rider were a strom with panniers and a bash plate, focused on stealing buyers from the Tiger and F800 market, interestingly enough the summary was the F800 was the better buy but the stom may cherry pick some of the market with a lower price.

[young1]

The rumours I heard via ADV rider were a strom with panniers and a bash plate, focused on stealing buyers from the Tiger and F800 market, interestingly enough the summary was the F800 was the better buy but the stom may cherry pick some of the market with a lower price.

I think there has always been a panniers / bash plated strom available in the states?

[Woodman]

Its a hard job finding the perfect adventure bike lad.

[NordieBoy]

Its a hard job finding the perfect adventure bike lad.

There's plenty of them out there. However they're usually owned by other people

[Monstaman]

If that IS the design silhouette then is kinda looks like it might be a RF900 with high pipes.

Let hope they see sense and stick with honest basics, i.e 21 front, 17 rear. not too much breakable (note expensive) plastics etc.

[Woodman]

If that IS the design silhouette then is kinda looks like it might be a RF900 with high pipes.

Let hope they see sense and stick with honest basics, i.e 21 front, 17 rear. not too much breakable (note expensive) plastics etc.

They should just keep rolling out the DR. Maybe start a Suzuki accessory line similar to all the farkles you guys put on anyway.

The truth is that the old DR probarbly won't be emission friendly enough for a lot of markets soon so will have to go or have a major revamp e.g. efi etc. Shame really cos they are the last of the breed e.g. simple.

[Monstaman]

Shame really cos they are the last of the breed e.g. simple.

My woife sess that too me as wal

Some nice suspenders, a better seat and a proper tank would see the DR steal more people.

... maybe a snorkel for deep crossings too

[clint640]

My woife sess that too me as wal

Some nice suspenders, a better seat and a proper tank would see the DR steal more people.

... maybe a snorkel for deep crossings too

It's always baffled me why the Japs dont make several versions of their dual purpose machines, If a small outfit like KTM can make several different flavours of LC4 for various tastes you'd think Suzuki could come out with a better suspended & FCR carbed DR650Z, a big tank, comfy seat & windscreen DR650RS, a 17" wheeled DR650SM... Instead they seem happy to let the aftermarket make that money off their customers.

Simple & basic might not be dead yet though, I read recently that Honda have re-released the XR650L in several markets, totally unchanged from the last 10 years ones.

Clint

[Crasherfromwayback]

It's always baffled me why the Japs dont make several versions of their dual purpose machines, If a small outfit like KTM can make several different flavours of LC4 for various tastes you'd think Suzuki could come out with a better suspended & FCR carbed DR650Z, a big tank, comfy seat & windscreen DR650RS, a 17" wheeled DR650SM... Instead they seem happy to let the aftermarket make that money off their customers.

Simple & basic might not be dead yet though, I read recently that Honda have re-released the XR650L in several markets, totally unchanged from the last 10 years ones.

Clint

It's because KTM are a small niche market maker of mainly off road bikes. It's what they do. Just like Suzuki don't make several versions of the DR650, KTM don't make cruisers Busas etc etc