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What brand bike wouldn't you buy?


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Most of us have our favorite manufacturers of motorcycles, I tend to like BMWs with boxer engines, most Hondas, Harleys, Kawasakis, KTM and Husqvarna offroad bikes, some Ducatis, etc, I appreciate most non chinese brands.

 

What I am curious is about what bike brands wouldn't you buy? Although I like Sofia's bike, I think I wouldn't buy a Triumph, I dislike their dealers here in Portugal, BOTH of them, and to be honest some details in their bikes just seem to rub me off the wrong way.

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I like to think that I'm not a bike snob, i've owned lots of different makes of bikes.  In recent years I've had a lot of european bikes, some good, some not so but at the moment I have three 'Jap' bikes.

Nowadays your bike could be built anywhere, I have a Yamaha that was built in France, a Suzuki that was built in Japan and a Honda that was built in Thailand :classic_blink:

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4 hours ago, boboneleg said:

I like to think that I'm not a bike snob, i've owned lots of different makes of bikes.  In recent years I've had a lot of european bikes, some good, some not so but at the moment I have three 'Jap' bikes.

Nowadays your bike could be built anywhere, I have a Yamaha that was built in France, a Suzuki that was built in Japan and a Honda that was built in Thailand :classic_blink:

Suzuki seem to have stuck with building their bikes in Japan more than the others.

Stroms have always been built there.

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If I were to buy a Japanese bike today to have along with the GS, it would either be a Kawasaki GTR, a Yamaha T700, or a Kawasaki Z900.

 I mean the pretty Z900 with the nice paint and cushy seat, not the Z900 that looks like it was taken out of an apocalypse zombie movie.

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11 hours ago, XTreme said:

Suzuki seem to have stuck with building their bikes in Japan more than the others.

Stroms have always been built there.

All Suzuki's under 200cc are built in China now.

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8 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

All Suzuki's under 200cc are built in China now.

Budget stuff for Asian markets I expect.

The only Suzukis I'd buy is the Strom and the DR.......but we haven't had those for years.

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15 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

My DR650 is still my favourite bike, wether the T700 will overtake it remains to be seen .

Yeh.....great bike!

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7 minutes ago, BusBoy said:

Ditto, and Goldwings

I get that, but I loved riding a Goldwing a few years ago. It's a great engine and weirdly fun to ride, in a guilty pleasure sort of way.

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