
Originally Posted by
oldrider
Ruralman needs/desires a litre plus bike and soon his hand will be revealed, what will he buy to replace the trusty TransAlp?
Maybe we should run a poll?
BMW
Triumph
Suzuki
KTM
Vespa
Zimmer
All will be revealed in due course, rumour has it he is on the bargain trail, even as we speak.

Cheers John.
Too late for poll - deal done, possession next week.
John has summed up my reason - I want a litre bike. I have a dirt bike for serious trail and off road. For the big adventure trips fully loaded, sometimes with a pillion the 650 just doesn't have enough grunt for me - especially when you're riding with guys on bigger bikes on the highway. I also do quite a few tarmac only rides and again the extra cubes makes a difference. The Transalp did keep up but you were ringing its neck sometimes to do that and the others were just loping along - the T/A got surprisingly thirsty too when pushed like this and the bike I'm getting is more economical, plus has a bigger tank, as well as the extra cc's.
When I'm on my own without much luggage I am still very happy on the T/A - unless theres some passing manoevre I want to pull off when, shall we just say the speed the manoevre starts at is slightly higher than the recommended limit...............
The T/A is a very relaxed bike to ride - it has great torque at low revs and will pull away from near death on steep tracks without any drama - neither the 650 or 1000 cc V Stroms are very good at this, but both of these make the T/A look rather pedestrian once you're up in the revs and speed. Its a very good allrounder and while the new one due in Jan/Feb will doubtless have more power it still won't have what a litre bike has.
As far as being on the bargain trail?? - we all want to buy as best we can don't we??. I've spent more than I'd hoped but got a better lower km bike which is already well set up for what I want.
Roll on next week
Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do - Sir Tim Wallis
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