Suzuki Gladius: First impressions

Originally Posted by Speedy

..........the current colours just aint hard enough.

One may suspect with a name like Gladys that they ain't aiming at the hard-as-nail crowd

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by MCN_LiamM

Sarcasm, Sid?

Not at all.

[Speedy]

How about if it looked like this...........????

[yorkie_chris]

Then it wouldn't look as good as a similarly coloured ER6.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

I mean the updated version, sarky git. What they call that, the claymor?

I'd buy one just so I could spray "front toward enemy" on it.



Re. the qualifiers, they might put different tyres on the production ones. Presume you have some sort of demonstrator?

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Speedy

How about if it looked like this...........????

may as well buy one o these, or the other one with an SV engine, a Raptor 650

Had one on the dyno..67bhp with a stock hardly any miles engine..so approx 2-3bhp more back to back with the SV on our dyno in the same trim..

Demo on next week..so I might venture out on the road for the first time in 7 months to put some miles on it!

[Littlepeahead]

I had a good look at it up at the NEC. Didn't like it at all. Silly name and the colours are all a bit daft - though the guys on the stand said this was to appeal to women! Since my SV is black with some extra black and then a bit more black that didn't really do it for me.

I also didn't find it that much lower than my SV, which has a sculpted seat. I'm a short person with long legs, so perhaps the shorter reach would suit me - but if I'm only trading in my SV if someone is going to buy me a Ducati 1198S. Now that's a proper bike for the girls.

[dizzyblonde]

well saw a real one today(thanks to Liam for the invite out), the look grows on you, could do with shedding some of the ghey parts, don't like the fact that it has no subframe, and the frame is all one piece front to tail. The downpipe is an odd twisty shape. Like the grab handles for the pillion, but they certainly won't like how mucky they will get sat on the seat from the rear wheel fling, the seat lock is in a stupid place, at the back just above the reg plate, offset to the left. The headlight is fugly, the plastics on the rad are un-necessary.
But it don't look as bad in the flesh. To sit on it I felt like I was sat on a moped....lol


oh and you won't get two portions of curry, three naans, and a tollkit under that seat
Be lucky to get a packet of fags under it, and then they'd be squashed..hehe

edit, some real photos in the photo section if anybody interested

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

oh and you won't get two portions of curry, three naans, and a tollkit under that seat
Be lucky to get a packet of fags under it, and then they'd be squashed..hehe

Everyone on here keeps saying they want the next SV to be more like a sportsbike!! They've done it!

Anyone seen the Gladius adverts on eurosport? VERY girl aimed.