Motorcycle Thread
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Sludig
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Check out fortnine as well as some of the yammienoob vids. Fort does a rebel 500 review. I agree with the complaints.
Ideally ride a few types of bikes save money unlike me buying multiple bikes. Started cruiser > adventure > Supersport before being happy.
Sludig
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Better than 75% chance of it never coming to the USA unfortunately. If it does, a lot of people are ballparking 7-9k and people will be like LOL just get a 600 rather than thinking of it as a more track focused ZX line, all these see is a 250 costing near 10 grand.
Hekotat
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I ended up selling it. I spent the last few months hunting down parts that I coudn't find and realized I was about to go down a black hole before even knowing if the bike would run or not. I did that on the 86 and went 30k over budget and solde it for a massive loss. So, not going through that again, lol.
If I decide to get a cafe racer project going in the future I'll buy something running to start with.
Sludig
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Only thing I'd say is ride it to see if you like it. I know especially for highway use, 650 twins underwhelmed me. Granted an I4 600 may not really make me happy either since I went straight 650 > 1k > 1k supercharged. But my ninja 400 feels pretty nice on highway compared to my vulcan though certainly none of the off the light torque.
jooka
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Some good long term news today, both KTM and Husqvarna will be bringing out 500cc adventure bikes. Husqvarna is going to put out the 900cc Norden(2021) which the 500cc will be based on. Not available till 2022 tho. Also, sounds like 790's will become 890's by that time the 490's hit the market. I was hoping to see the 490 next spring and not be like the cheezy 390 version.
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