Paul Owen motorcycle reviews (or lack of)

[Crasherfromwayback]

He roots teddy bears? Poor old bear.....

Be as useful as his write ups.

[Gremlin]

You guys could be right. I'm expecting too much from mainstream media. Still, would be nice to have a motorcyclist review motorcycles thought!

Stop reading main stream media silly.

Plenty of bike mags, net reviews and KB'ers even write reviews...

[GrayWolf]

Another fucken well thought out pile of crap from Paul. I love this line.

"Let's hope other brands take note of the Monster 659 and tweak some new models to comply with the new learner-bike rules."

Do a bit of research dickhead. Suzuki have the following models already compliant. DR650SE, DRZ400E, Boulevard S40, AN650 Burgman and have the following on their way in restricted guise to meet the market GSX650U, SFV650U.

Hyosung have the GT650L, GT650RL and ST7 650 (the most powerful LAMS bike) on the way.

KTM have every single road legal 4 stroke that they produce under 530cc on the list.

And that's just the three brands we sell!

Fucks sake.

Tell you what, Guzzi used to do the '750' as a 500 and 650cc... power for the 650 was 'identical'? to the current 750 version... I'll bet Mandello del Lario still have the tooling for the 650 barrels hanging about, and will be similar price to the Duck....... The Guzzi V7 sport or even the Breva are nice looking machines.

[Paul in NZ]

Tell you what, Guzzi used to do the '750' as a 500 and 650cc... power for the 650 was 'identical'? to the current 750 version... I'll bet Mandello del Lario still have the tooling for the 650 barrels hanging about, and will be similar price to the Duck....... The Guzzi V7 sport or even the Breva are nice looking machines.

Guzzi didn't make their own barrels - they were made by Gilardoni who periodically reproduce sets for older Guzzis...

[Ender EnZed]

KTM have every single road legal 4 stroke that they produce under 530cc on the list.

Have you had any official word on that? I'd still like to know what numbers they used to get a 530 under 150kW/T.

[BoristheBiter]

Stop reading main stream media silly.

Plenty of bike mags, net reviews and KB'ers even write reviews...

Mainstream media?? Stuff?? Oh what has the world come to

[GrayWolf]

Guzzi didn't make their own barrels - they were made by Gilardoni who periodically reproduce sets for older Guzzis...

my mistake I remembered reading the small bore motor was a 'machined, production lined' Motor, rather than the more traditional methods of Guzzi production.. so I assumed they were completely made 'in house'. Still if Gilardoni has the tooling still for the 650cc barrels? I wonder?

[oneofsix]

This is quite possibly the main reason Suzuki wont be bringing its LAMS legal GSXR600U to the country I reckon.

RU I thought it was the FU, it seemed such a good name for it

[Big Dave]

Tough room.

[jellywrestler]

Sooooo who in their right mind would pay " $17,490 " for a 38kW (51bhp) learner bike.

quite a few I'm picking, wannabe sons of anarchy bikers who have some drug money to hide so they'll buy the 'ole lady' one, these things will gobble the smaller harleys.

[mossy1200]

Manufacture bikes with lead engine bash plates with the lams stamped onto the plate. Once remove plate not lams bike after finish licence is a better option. Then the bike can be resold Lams again for next guy also.

[oneofsix]

Manufacture bikes with lead engine bash plates with the lams stamped onto the plate. Once remove plate not lams bike after finish licence is a better option. Then the bike can be resold Lams again for next guy also.

What? Are you saying that whether or not a bike has a label plate determines if it is learner suitable or not?

[mossy1200]

What? Are you saying that whether or not a bike has a label plate determines if it is learner suitable or not?

No. Im saying manufacture a gsxr600pl ( pl= lead plate weight) as a model that is lams legal on power to weight and removal of plate takes away its lams status.

Example only on model etc.

[Ender EnZed]

It'd make for some interesting handling characteristics to have a 300 kg bash plate on a GSXR.

[Flip]

He is writing for the news paper, ie mr and mrs middle class car driver.

I didn't find anything interesting in his article but I am a biker.

I don't see the problem.

Not many bikers can read and write.