What do you think of the ownership experience so far?
Good?
bad?
you you buy the same again given the option?
thank you in advance
What do you think of the ownership experience so far?
Good?
bad?
you you buy the same again given the option?
thank you in advance
I've got an F650GS Dakar. Seriously love the bike. It does everything I ask it to do and then some. Would I get another one? Yup yup and yup again
My videos...
http://www.youtube.com/davidhowellca
Cons-expensive service,front suspension is a little weak,Head gasket leaked at 12thousand kilometers.......pros-power,ability to fly on the highway,goes pretty well everywhere my old xt350 used to go,Decent 300 kilometer range.To be fair my dealer has promised to change the head gasket free of charge when ever i bring it in as it is still under warranty.So to answer your question i guess i would buy another.........
Absolutely I would get another one, loving it and I've only had this one 5 weeks and already put 6300km on her..
I have the head gasket leak also, well documented issue, not to worried about, will do it with the next scheduled maintenance.
as said above 300-330 km range is pretty good.
Lots of torque, very reliable, hard to find used, very desirable bike on the used market.
Fun on the street, handles like a motard.
My brother has one also.
One other thing, with the motech guards on there they crash really well.
Stay away from all others, Motech is the way to go...
fun to watch, a little long but gets interesting at around the 3 minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0gB...e_gdata_player
Last edited by scudafi; 07-14-2012 at 08:12 PM.
Do yourself a favour, get a 990 instead.
The Austrians can do strudel, but build bikes??Originally Posted by offworlder
Do yourself a favour, get a 990 instead.
And a 990 tastes even better than their strudel !
advrider thread re 800 vs 990: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366767
MCN review of 4 big adventure bikes (albeit a 1200 vs an 800):
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...test-part-one/
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...e-test-part-2/
Do you want a street bike with some dirt abilities or a dirt bike with some street abilities? Very general I know, but that is how I would start the discussion?
Dan
That is the first HeadGasket Failure I've heard of, hopefully it is an isolated incident.
Thank you for the info...so this HeadGasket issue! what year are the bikes effected? is it only the early ones? I'm looking at a 2010 (probably Lava Orange)
Actually its quite common,check adventure riders 800gs section.Apparently they now install a newer thicker rubber gasket.
mine is the 2010 30 year anniversary edition.
Thank you.
If they replace it with a "thicker rubber one" it Sounds like it is the Rocker cover gasket that weeps, as opposed to the "Head Gasket".
your right ,my apologies.......
I've been very happy with mine!
It's been good to me and it goes lot's of places (some where it maybe shouldn't but it still does). Every bike has it's weaknesses so you just have to the tweaks that work for you.
There are a few in our "gang" and I think everyone's been happy with them.
It was the earlier ones that were affected. My 2010 did leak just a bit and it was changed out at 20k service anyhow with the newer one.
Fire away with any q's.
Dave
www.motooverland.com
Thanks Dave.
My Demo ride is booked for a week Saturday but I'm hoping to pull it forwards to this Friday. will keep you guys posted with my thoughts after I've ridden one.
Yes you are right, every bike (and car too) has it's weaknesses (for example my DRZ had a lot of easy mods to do to cure/prevent the foibles).
Chris
It also pulls stranded Isuzu Troopers out of washouts.
The bike is a freakin tractor when it has to be.
Tractor.jpg Tractor2.jpg
Last edited by scudafi; 07-23-2012 at 08:19 AM.
It also doubles as a snowmobile..
snowmobile.jpg
The snowmobile part hasn't worked out very well for me
Sean went up the sand hill pretty good though
and we've done some swamping
Dave
www.MotoOverland.com
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