so you all thought hyosung were pooo?

[Biker Biggles]

Got to agree with jools.My son has a 125 Comet which he bought secondhand and very cheap.As a cheap hack it is a bargain but it suffers from those build quality faults jools mentioned.Truely abysmal chain life(10,000 km)and worse brake pad life(fronts last about4,000km).Front disc needed changing at 12,000km and fork sliders are prone to rust.Son will be selling it shortly and has his beady eye on an SV650-----My SV650!

For the price you pay may as well buy a SV 650 S.

my chain too was 10,000k! shoddy to say the least!

Viva la SV, much better and not much more!

[northwind]

There's a big logic error going here, the assumption that USD forks are automatically better than the SVs. Every review of the Hyosang has slated the front end- crap USD is still worse than merely mediocre RWU.

As for 80bhp, that's just cobblers.

The main problem with the Hyosang is that it's barely cheaper than the SV, but the residuals will be worse- if you sell after a year you'll pay more for the Hyosang due to its more rapid depreciation.

B.B...You got a son old enough to be sniffing after your SV? Strewth you must have been deflowered in infant school mate!

Originally Posted by wyrdness

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

No arguments there from me

Originally Posted by northwind

There's a big logic error going here, the assumption that USD forks are automatically better than the SVs. Every review of the Hyosang has slated the front end- crap USD is still worse than merely mediocre RWU.

As for 80bhp, that's just cobblers.

The main problem with the Hyosang is that it's barely cheaper than the SV, but the residuals will be worse- if you sell after a year you'll pay more for the Hyosang due to its more rapid depreciation.

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I agree dude. It looks good on paper but look more carefully. I have read reviews on the 650 Hyosung and they said it was very rough compared to an sv. The 79 bhp is actually only 70 at the rear wheel on that site which isn't gonna blow the sv away by any stretch of the imagination. I welcome to competition though, who knows, maybe suzuki will improve the sv's build quality in response and make it the bike it deserves to be.

[northwind]

Think the Kwak ER-6 is more likely to have that effect... Any competitions's good though, the SV's been top dog in a field of one for too long.

[Sid Squid]

I've ridden a Hyosung, the unfaired GT650.

Prepare for a shock: Magazine articles aren't always very good examples of unerring objective journalism, sorry. Next to the latest fastest spiffingest hyper GSZR1500 the Hyosung probably feels crap, (but then get off a new ZX10 and try an SV it may feel a little underwhelming), I think the journalistic treatment of Hyosung's bikes has been a bit unfair

Sid Squid's Utterly Personal And Probably Not Very Objective Hyosung 650 Review:
(To Be Read Whilst Bearing In Mind That I Know SV650s Very Well.)

Hyosung GT650: (Drum roll please) It's OK. That doesn't seem to say much for it does it? Read on.

It's nowhere near as rough and ready as might have been suggested, not perfect and the forks aren't wonderful, but here's the killer; they ain't so very different in capability to the SV's bouncy bits, rear is fine. My personal seat-of-the-pants dyno says the engine makes about the same power as an SV, give or take a bit, possibly a bit torquier in the middle, perhaps not quite as smooth though, but not bad by any measure. Brakes are just fine - every bit a match for the SV's, feel fine too. Riding position is good, seat slightly bigger but a dab harder, comfort is very personal thing of course, but it fitted me fine (5'8" 12.5 stone). Didn't like the clocks, switchgear is the same as loadsa Jap bikes thus modern and neat.
Finish I can't comment about, the one I rode looked fine but then it was near new so it should have been.

Overall you'd never mistake it for an SV, but it's a whole lot better than certain sources may have led you to believe.

[northwind]

Hum, TBH every review I've seen that was Hyosang vs Suzuki, it's always doen not badly- I've never really seen the Hyosang take a complete beating. But mostly they come to the same conclusion, it's not cheap enough to justify getting one over the SV.

Don't care for either Comet but the Italjets that were in that other thread last week are lovely.