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Tag: Testride

  • Tiger 900 Rally Pro testride

    gozamite

    Took a short testride today. Even I knew this is going to be great bike I was still surprised! What an amazing bike!
    The engine is marvellous! It gives smooth power already from 2000rpm and it sounds very nice too.

    Already OffRoading…

    The suspension is totally with manual adjustments but it seems it made me very happy with the factory defaults (I’m 120kg’s!) And that is rare. I was also very happy with the riding position even when I was standing. Maybe I would add 2cm’s to the height of the handlebar if I would be the owner of the bike.

    The bike doesn’t look very special… Except the spoked wheels are very nice!

    This bike would be big enough for me and for my wife. The power is ofcourse much smaller than in XR but I think I could manage with it.
    I did find ONE thing I didn’t like! When you’re filling the tank the lid of the tank doesn’t stay up! So when you take the gaspump you have to lift the lid up with your other hand to get the gas to the tank… Not very big thing but it made me think how easy it would be to change this!
    One interesting thing was the rpm meter in the TFT-screen! There was 2 of them!!! One on the left side and then another on the right side of the TFT…
    It seems they had (too much) space in the TFT screen to put it there twice 😉

    Keimola race track (or it was a race track)

  • S1000XR 2020 review

    gozamite

    Today I took the testride with the S1000XR (New 2020 model). My wife was there with me so she could give some opinions about the rear seat and how the bike feels from her POV.

    IceGrey BMW S1000XR

    When you sit on the bike you can notice right away that the seat feels quite different. It’s more narrow and the edges are too sharp. Luckily I’m quite tall and my knees are coming quite high so I don’t feel this sharp edge almost at all. In my 150km testride I didn’t feel uncomfortable and I could ride longer trips easily!

    #OneWorldOneXR

    Then I notice the narrow handlebar. But it doesn’t bother me at all! Maybe I should’ve gone to some heavy traffic where you need to use the maximum steering… But in this kind of normal street riding it didn’t bother me (Even I like the wide bar of the old XR!)

    Boxroad in Sipoo Finland

    The bike feels maybe little bit lighter, it feels like it wants to take the corners tighter and faster -it reminded me about S1000R that I was riding back in 2014. All the buzz or vibration is gone from the handlebars but there was few times when I felt a little bit of buzz in the bike itself -somewhere around 4000rpm.

    Spjutsund pier

    Since I have owned already 3 XR’s it makes me think “Is this bike really so much better than my old XR?” The price of the new bike is about 4000 euros higher. Is it worth it?
    I think there is 2 correct answers to this question!
    1) No it is not worth it! Keep the old one and you will be very happy with it!
    2) Yes definitely! They made it little bit better, little bit more unique and little more nice in every way (except maybe the seat!)

    Bike by the sea

    My wife didn’t like the backseat of the bike. She thought it was too short and the handlers for her were too short also. They should go further behind the seat.
    One thing I found very interesting! There was 1 page in this new TFT screen where you can see the leaning angle of the bike… I think I would be staring this page only… all the time! Or at least when I’m riding in the curvy road.

    It will be mine, someday!

    Thank you Biketeam Vantaa for making this testride possible.