MCN review Suzuki's new GSX250R

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

I'd summarise the article as: under-powered, over-priced, redundant.

The nicest thing they can find to say is, I jest you not, "the extra cash [versus a cheaper, more powerful CBR300R] buys you a reverse-lit LCD instrument cluster, which is very easy to read".

Wow.

'Kin hell, Suzuki, what on earth were you thinking putting a commuter lump into lardy bike with a GP paintjob and a not-a-GSXR-but-sort-of-a-GSXR name?
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M.C · Super Spammer Joined: 29 Sep 2015 Karma :

181kg without fuel Shocked

Oldie · Brolly Dolly Joined: 05 Dec 2010 Karma :

Is it not just an Inazuma with different "bits"? Apparently they're not very good either.

arry · Super Spammer Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Karma :

It'll sell when they drop the price by 900 quid on pre registered deals on 0% finance. Possibly.... there are some idiots out there.

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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Come on, it's MCN. 181kg is the wet weight with fuel. Still 11kg more than my Ninja 250, and with 3 litres less fuel to boot.

Why they list the non-ABS weight is a puzzler, plus they're still mentioning that it comes with ABS like that's under question now... eh, MCN. They're really having to scrabble around for anything positive to say about it.
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Bricktop · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 23 Jul 2017 Karma :

Jesus. That rear 'mudguard'...

Look, either make them with a big proper mudguard or put on a hugger and tail tidy.

Those fucking trusses for the number plate need to be consigned to Room 101.

Edit: Oh the matte black powdercoat can die in a fire as well.

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So what's wet weight?

chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

I genuinely cannot understand how it is that heavy Laughing

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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

With a full tank of fuel it is heavier than my Speed Four on reserve. Laughing

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jjdugen · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jun 2011 Karma :

The 1963 Honda CB72 made 26 BHP from a two valve single OHC engine, my my, how things have advanced.
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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

I wonder if in 89 that RGV owners imagined this beastly GSXR as the future nearly 30years later?

It'd be like knowing you'd have to chop your own dick off just when your about to start using it.

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GSTEEL32 · Traffic Copper Joined: 24 Feb 2010 Karma :

"lies a peppy 248cc parallel twin motor, producing just 24.7bhp"

Jesus H.

I stopped reading at that point.

What is the f**king point ?

Who goes to all the effort and cost of a better license, just to buy that POS ?

Small bikes can be cool. This is not going to be one of those.

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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

Arry, the thing is if your going to have it as a second bike. And especially if it's one that ain't gotta be a reliable daily ride, you might as well buy an old RG125FUN or RG200. Both have at least 30bhp, weigh 30-40kg less dry, and would be once set up a proper little back roads scalpel.

The big RGV would be like a flighty twitchy little exocet missile in comparison.

I know I'm being a cock talking about something that can never be A2 compliant, but anyone who's buying a small bike for a second bike that doesn't apply to. Your point about making these A2 bikes cheap and heavy, is fair too, but in the 90's you couldn't sell a sportsbike if it wasn't an aluminium beam framed, high tech bike with fully adjustable suspension, and stuff like USD forks, sticky tyres and big brakes.

I don't think peoples want list is much different today really.
Saying that theres people mostly older folk buying these CBR 300's and Ninja's etc as a light easy to manage bike in their late riding years, just as they would buy a scooter etc. But the A2 bikes arnt selling to anyone who actually is supposed to buy them due to their licencing restrictions.