![]() Handling was easy once I had got over how wide it felt relative to my bike - the suspension was a little hard but I hadn’t played with it at all - preload and extension are adjustable. The V-twin is lovely and smooth off tickover and makes a decent attempt to be noisy when opening up - not Harley loud though. No doubt there are those that think 80hp is too little - the original BMW R80GS came with 50hp and my plain Jane R80 has seen some of those horses have escape so I think that it is plenty powerful enough - 100mph should be easy to go past fully loaded if that is your bag. Apparently this can be sorted out in the menu on the box of tricks modern bikes come with so isn’t a real problem. The engine is lovely and is only let down by having some lights that flash when the engine spins above 5,000rpm and when the smile gets too big. I was wondering if I would notice too much difference between an 800cc boxer with shaft drive and an 853cc v-twin with shaft drive.įirst thing I should say is that I planned for the day to be dry but my plan failed within 10 minutes of leaving the showroom - proper rain, not torrential but heavy enough to cause me to have to wipe my visor every 5 seconds or so. So that you can get context my current bike is a 1986 BMW R80. Sorry to drag up an old thread but c’est la vie. Do the research, it would only take a change from Italian components to Japanese design/Chinese manufacture to cure what I found, so it may have happened. ![]() Fine for a conventional electrical system in a dry climate, no use for electronics in a damp one.Ī lovely bike, but if you need to be somewhere a Honda NC or CB500 or I daresay an Africa Twin will do better IMHO. The plugs they use (in my professional opinion as an Engineer working on trailer electronics) are their big down fall. When they finally fitted the new speedo and suddenly it stops all the mis-fire and stalling stuff it pretty much confirmed it to me. The CAN style link to the engine ECU and the way none of the wiring runs fully front to rear made me think they were related. Thinking you could put a new lamp in the speedo makes you do the research which is where you find it's sealed and an £800 unit. The V7 was only the speedo illumination, but it then had a few instances of running rough and one where I had to remove the battery to get the engine ECU back to start up. The Enfields broke down but could be fixed. I could only stop Honda’s and MZ by old age and hard use. My Triumph had one issue, the coil position, which stopped me once then became easy enough to fix. Some bikes (Yamaha and Suzuki) work but rot. ![]() Yorkshire is a cold, damp climate to which you then add warm weather use on your holidays. Until 2 years ago the bike was my only transport. Ive always admitted Guzzi to be different and maybe have a few sortable foibles but generally they are generally over engineered, they are a constant progression of what went before so proven design, they are simple to work on and they have their very own unique feel and brand family, so I like them always have but are they perfect no. Lots buy honda and suzukis for travels then spend as much again improving them to be able to do trips away, so very few bikes are faultless just maybe the owners like to think them that way. Anyway i think you buy what appeals and work around its weaknesses. I like Guzzis maybe because they are old school and have foibles but generally easily fixed. They can and have all been good and bad depending on the day. ![]() BMW are held up by many as be all and end all by some and thought to be the worst by others, Ive had BMW's along with many other makes of bikes over the years. Hi Cholo I think the internet really throws up disproportionate reviews anyway, people are very quick to point out faults with lets say on here motorcycles - but i think all brands have there weaknesses and other people obsess about various brands. ![]()
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