hyosung

[mikerj]

Originally Posted by Steve_God

There are many people who rate them highly for being great value for money for what you get - but also many reports or structural failures or engine problems.

Care to point us to the numerous reports of structural failures? I very much doubt they exist to be honest.

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by mikerj

Care to point us to the numerous reports of structural failures? I very much doubt they exist to be honest.

The one I worked on was two years old and most definitely had engine problems, plus the exhaust was ruined after two years of on street parking. The frame though was rusted to hell, but was still strong due to the amount of steel used in the fabrication, which in turn made it really heavy.

I would like to think that this was just a bad example of a nice bike, but I rather suspect that it was not.

[Spanner Man]

Good morning all.


I've had the misfortune to have worked on a Hyosung 650 a couple of years ago. Generally it was somewhat below SV quality in most areas. It was pretty reliable though.
However, some of the spares were extremely expensive. Try £90 for a rear sprocket! There was no pattern one available at that time. There may be one available now.
Also the availability of genuine spares was Pi55 poor! 6 weeks for a handlebar.
Buy a good SV. End of!


Cheers.

Originally Posted by mikerj

Care to point us to the numerous reports of structural failures? I very much doubt they exist to be honest.

I would have thought the comments from others would have been enough, but as you insist:

Hyosung Riders Forum - Thread containing a list of VINs with a problematic 650 engine.
"The VIN range covers 6000 bikes and 2 years of production 04/06 so seem pretty common to me."

Not to mention Fuel Shut Off issues

Brake failures

Others...


From what I gather they've improved in recent years, and the issues coming out tend to be from those made several years ago, in particular around that one bad batch.

Originally Posted by Steve_God

I would have thought the comments from others would have been enough, but as you insist:

Hyosung Riders Forum - Thread containing a list of VINs with a problematic 650 engine.
"The VIN range covers 6000 bikes and 2 years of production 04/06 so seem pretty common to me."

One batch of engines that the factory has acknowledged have a problem and issued a recall... so not really a problem any more.

Originally Posted by Steve_God

Not to mention Fuel Shut Off issues

One instance of a fuel tap not working with no other responses in that thread saying "Oh, mine's done that too". Wow, that's a major failing on soooo many bikes... not!

Originally Posted by Steve_God

Brake failures

One bloke (again, no-one else in the thread is shouting "Oh, mine's done that too") has a delaminating brake pad which is replaced under warranty, big bloody deal. I've replaced loads of Japanese OEM pads that have delaminated over time, worse ones were on a GSXR600 and that was an 18 month old bike with less than 5K miles on the clock.

Originally Posted by Steve_God

Others...

Shall I dig though this very forum and pull up some common SV problems, like reg/recs, carb icing, crap forks, cheap and nasty shock absorbers, corrosion etc etc

Originally Posted by Steve_God

From what I gather they've improved in recent years, and the issues coming out tend to be from those made several years ago, in particular around that one bad batch.

Where are the instances of structural failures, I don't see anything about those?

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't touch a Hyosung myself, but your original reply was just ludicrous and you have absolutely no real evidence to back it up.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

crap forks, cheap and nasty shock absorbers, corrosion etc etc

Just because hyosung has USD does not mean they have any worthwhile damping.

And if hyosung 650 follows the smaller ones, the chroming on forks will be wafer thin.

Can I just point out one fallacy mentioned quite early in this thread - the 650 is NOT CHEAP compared with the SV. The list at the moment is £5100 which is almost exactly the same as an SV.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by DJFridge

Can I just point out one fallacy mentioned quite early in this thread - the 650 is NOT CHEAP compared with the SV. The list at the moment is £5100 which is almost exactly the same as an SV.

Well you'd get a SV for £4700 atm, and a Gladius for about £5500

Just to pick up one YC and Lozzo have picked up, how many budget bikes have half decent suspension? The only one I can think of is the KTM Duke's and possibly the BMW G650 (but they seem to rot quite quickly)

[yorkie_chris]

CBR600F has half decent forks that you can set up to work really nicely. But then again until recently they were hondas 600 sportsbike, not budget market at all until RR came out.

Originally Posted by DJFridge

Can I just point out one fallacy mentioned quite early in this thread - the 650 is NOT CHEAP compared with the SV. The list at the moment is £5100 which is almost exactly the same as an SV.

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Well you'd get a SV for £4700 atm, and a Gladius for about £5500

Well, that's even better. Anybody still considering the Hyosung is even more of a numpty then.