so you all thought hyosung were pooo?

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Mystery Jimbo wrote:

Good of you to say so mate!

Didn't know BMW were italian.

Foey...You are a bad,bad boy.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Rictus...I bow to your sage like comments mate! I fully agree that ducati/Honda et al could in a few years be just "old news". Competition has got to be good for the consumer hasn't it?

I'm all for consumer savings, even love the hobbiest element.

I remember a time when you brought a bike on it's condition, didn't matter what age it was or what model year, but now, given the "leisure" status of motorcycling, i can buy a 3 year old bike with 10,000 miles on it for peanuts .

More for your money, yes please.

Cheers Mark.

Looking at their other bikes, surely Suzuki are going to sue over the GT650S. Shameless SV copy!

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

Looking at their other bikes, surely Suzuki are going to sue over the GT650S. Shameless SV copy!

how can they if all components are different
even the suspension is better, suzuki seem ****e in the light of the hyosung, obviously you would have to take this comment on all models that compete with each other. there is no gsxr equivelant for example.

I had the XRX Trailie before i passed my test.....DR125 copy engine...better forks...disk brakes. Couldn't fault it mechanically but the finish on some parts was a bit iffy.

They have been doing this bike for a while now without the fairing....It was pitted against the sv650n a while ago and didn't compare on any level. The forks were better only to be let down by the shoddy front brakes...The power delivery was "crap" as they put it, very jumpy....All in all they said it just wasn't as "refined" as the Sv and only a small difference in price.

Does look good though.

Available in Electric Mango Yellow. Now that has to be the fastest colour!

I had a Hyosung GT125, and still have one, before getting my pointy SV. The comet is a great bike and served me really well. It is let down by the build quality though and a lot of the parts fitted as standard (chain and sprockets, brake pads, levers, switches, cables ect.) are Really poor!! (cheap!)

The bikes look great, as everyone seems to agree, but i would not go down the Hyosung route again at the moment. I had a pretty bad experience with my local dealer. I bought it from new and they are the only dealer within 50 miles or so of my house so i got them to do all the servicing for me. They were, how shall i put it nicely, a bunch of cowboys. Knowing nothing about bikes or dealers or mechanics i trusted them. Things like air filler caps and the odd screw would mysteriously dissapear whenever they touched the bike and when questioned they always said, It wasn't there when it came in, which i know isn't true. I had a pretty bad experience when my missus dropped the bike during her CBT. The chain was very worn, but the bike had been serviced by said dealer about 2 months previous to this event. At the time i had asked them whether i needed to fit a new chain, they replied not worth it at this point in time. So two months later and one spill at 1/2 a mile and hour and the chain literally disintigrated and fell off the sprockets!! When the guy from the bike school looked at it he could not believe that i had been advised that it didn't need replacing!!

My point is that although the bikes may be good and fun to ride and pretty cheap, you don't get any kind of support and other garages wont service them because they don't have lists of prarts ect. It may well be that in a couple of years companies like Hyosung (which by the way, is run by a load of ex suzuki bods) will be all the rage. but at the moment i am affraid they are just cheaper imitations with no support and are just not quite as good as the Jap bikes. IME

Bike commented on the Hyosung comet this month. Something to the effect, "If you're expecting it to be anywhere near as good as the SV that it mimics, you'll be sorely disappointed. It's not even much cheaper."

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Foey...You are a bad,bad boy.

My mummy just says i'm special.