XN85 owner wanted for Classic M/cycle Mechanics roadtest!!!!

[Russbusa]

The thing is its the people ( US ! ) who run, rebuild and actually ride these bikes that know the details and the truth about what they are like to ride and maintain, damned journalists are just 5 minute experts repeating whats been said before.

As for writing a complaint. . . . . . I've run clean out of asterix's and exclamation marks

caveat emptor - if the mag is in a sealed bag and you cant get it out to examine it........ leave the bugger on the shelf as far as CMM is concerned they shot themselves in the foot.

H I agree on the fuel consumption 45 - 50 mpg prob unless your little turbo is spinning its heart out for mile after mile

Fossie, I've already emailed the editor and the journalist. . . . .. . . I await a response .........maybe .............. maybe they will recycle an email they sent to somebody else a few months ago !

[bobster]

I started this whole sorry affair off by putting the original add on here!

Looks like I will have to send him a snot-a-gram to put the feelings of the XN owners across to him!

Maybe that's not such a good idea after all...........................gone

[Katgeezer]

Sounds like a load of sour grapes to me just because the GPz750 turbo is a better bike...........(creeps off with wooden spoon intact)

Also,where was the Yam 650 turbo in this article?? Oh yeah, the Spanish holiday guy doesn't have one of those I suppose.
Have to say I was disappointed with the article and it smacked of free holidays to me as this is the 2nd or 3rd time that guys bikes have been featured lately.
Don't suppose the CX mob would be all that happy with the article either.

[lomsavage]

chris,

would have to agree if i rode those 3 back to back,

or at all the gpz would win hands down, best turbo by far,

just really dodgy journalism that annoys me,

one of the tag lines on the photos, the v twin suits a turbo ?????

since when, worst ever motor to turbo !!!

H

[Katgeezer]

Absolutely H, Honda turbo'd the CX to prove that they could do it, not cos it was a particularly good idea.

[lomsavage]

as an afterthought as well

pity he couldn't get a standard xn,

non standard exhaust and no grills on air ducts,

wonder where he could have got pics of proper one if he wanted to take time to look ??

[Russbusa]

No sour grapes about anything with Kawafookinsaki on the side ya pays your money and takes your choice.

Bad/cheap/nasty journalism thats the point.

As for which is best the kawa may be the fastest and the most brash, the CX the strangest choice and the Yam not so clever, but if you understand why Suzuki made it the way they did I think they got it just about right. Also the Suzuki is acknowledged as the best handling bike of the lot.
in the days of the bad old oil crisis and threatened power caps Suzuki set out to keep the fuel economy of the 650 and give the power of the gs1000 when it was needed, so as far as i'm concerned they got it right. also it handles really well for a 28 year old bike. when these odd bikes pop out of the showroom they are usually test beds for what is to come.

Also the kawa looks like any other gpz
the CX looks like a CX with an ugly fairing
The Yam design is just. . . . . . hang on I lost my flexi curve boring
The XN looks like. . . . . . errrrrr an XN I think, the xn was actually the only one of the four factory turbo's to be designed as a unique bike, as the availability and number of (unfortunately) unique parts shows.

I bought mine because it had Suzuki on the tank and its different