Hyosung reliability

[Radar]

A group from Bangalore, India did a Himalayas motorbike trip on 3 Comet GT250's.

See this site - lots of amazing photos of the trip:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/hianusunil/SunilHim

Also here:
http://www.bcmtouring.com/forum/show...?t=4725&page=4

Interesting places visited include:

1. Marsimekla http://www.60kph. com/interact/marsimekla_tips.htm
2. Pangong Tso http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pangong_Tso
3. Hanle http://www.iiap.res.in/centers/ iao
4. Chumar Monistary http://padmashedrupling.org/ chumur.html
5. Khardung La http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Khardung_La


The group believe that it is the first time a Comet has visited these places - up to an elevation of 19,000 Feet !!!

On member said: "Not a single fall Puncture or malfunctioning - Kuddos to the GT-250 I am loving it."
"The Pic I love most is:" http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/hianus...84690953216498

[Radar]

Hey, I'm not bagging the Hysosung, but doesn't a new rear shock and CDI at 9000 k's count as 'trouble'?

The rear shock is a weakness, although I have heard that they are now building better shocks.

Other new bikes have issues, and parts have to be replaced while under warranty. I have heard of problems with BMW's, Ducati's, Harleys, Suzuki's, and others, but it is the Hyo's that are unfairly singled out and trashed (well OK, Harleys also get negative comments).

BTW, I was up on Rimutaka summit recently and met a guy on a GT650. He FLEW past me going up from Featherston, faster than anyone has ever passed me on the twisties. The GT650 rider says he just loves eating Ducati's!!

[tri boy]

Good posts Radar.
Any bike that got through to the Khardung La is a hardy wee beastie in deed.
Did that ride in 97, and I am positive that ZXR/CBR's etc would really struggle. The riders would pull out first though, as they would get mud on their boots.
Let the others slag the bike off. In the real riding/commuting world they are building a strong following.

[xwhatsit]

Hey, if you think Hyosungs are bad quality, wait until you see this new little small-time British company that's started up... I think they're called `Trumph' or something. I hear the QC is so bad the wheels rust through almost from brand new, isn't that right TB?

Never mind this piece of shit Japper I've got -- you'd never see a proper European bike with a burnt-out alternator, would you?

Them's some cool photogs.

[tri boy]

Rusty rims aghhhhh!
To be fair to Triumph, they had bought from the Italians, and that is a recipe for trouble.
The replacement, that is of much higher quality came from.......you guessed it, Thailand. Those that still fall back on "cheap Asian crap/Korean crap" etc, are so behind the play, they may as well give up.
I'd back the emerging/new companies as often as possible.
Go Hyosung. Stick it to the establishment.

[xwhatsit]

Damn straight, the more manufacturers the better I say. Be interesting to see how Lifan et al turn out over the next decade or so -- `Jap Crap' all over again perhaps

[DarkLord]

Thread bump..

Just wanted to let you all know about something that happened to my Hyo recently. I've been noticing this jarring rattling when riding and I got off the bike, put it in neutral and revved it the other day and I noticed that the front headlight was loose and rattling around in its casing.

I took it into Katman's shop in Taupo (big ups to him, by the way - awesome dude, very helpful) and we found that some of the screws holding the casing in had come loose and that was causing the light to rattle around. Thing is, the plastic casing on the front of the headlight is 100% fixed on there. They DO NOT want you getting it off. Even once we managed to get the screws off we realised that the whole plastic front casing is sealed with glue, so there was no way of getting that screw back into place so what we had to do in the end was cut a hole in the bottom of the light and hold the loose part together where the screw had come out with superglue.

This has thankfully solved the problem, but once again has shown that the Hyosung bikes tend to suffer from poor design quality. It seems to me that if something as simple and stupid as a screw comes out in the headlight and causes it to rattle, you have only two options - do what we did or replace the whole thing, which I think is pretty poor on Hyosung's part. I shouldn't have to shell out howevermuchmoney for a whole new headlight system just because of one stupid loose screw!!!

Anyway just thought I'd post this and let you all know.

Cheers

DarkLord