It's Official - Hyosung make some real bikes!

[extreme3d]

Along side their new cruiser which is now featured in the mags they are now making the gt650r and gt650s. These are apparently all new bikes and not the 650 comet with fairings stuck on....

They also make the engines themselves in house and have nabbed a few Japanese designers.

The is the only photo needed in my view to show that they are not just copies of what is essentially a bike very similar to my own SV. But add a full fairing, USD forks, radial brakes, bolt on can and a few extra horses and you get the idea

[Bendy]

Is it a 650 twin?

[Aikman666]

Hmm they are a very rapidly growing company. Who knows, in a couple of years they could be up there with the likes of Yamaha, Honda and Suzuki, but i guess all of them have had a longer history than Hyosung (as far as im aware). I quite like the look of their new bikes! Quite individual.
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[Jack_Cheese]

The 650s and 650r have been out for a while i think. I couldn't find ay info on bavanar's website, but i found info on a bike shop's website in the UK. And it is just the comet 650 with plasticy bits and clip-ons. I'm not sure, but they may have re-tuned the engine with different cams, etc. Also, hyosung have made their own engines for the comet range since it began, they just have a very very very similar design to suzuki because Hyosung poached the engineers.

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nicer in yellow me thinks
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[mattsmith95]

SO who's getting one eh?? Anyone got the balls to?

[iCraig]

I want one but can't afford one.

Nearly bought a Hyosung Comet GT650 in 2004, but didn't want to spend £4k on a new bike.

Also nearly bought a GT125 earlier this year when I was downgrading ended up getting a Gilera, and making a profit on it.

[Rookie]

Not all that keen. Think it looks like a cheap knock-off of the SV650, but the worst bit IMO is the tacky looking front air intake and how loose the fairing is on the yokes.

Shame really, I normally like Hyosungs.

[dodsi]

Its just a cheap tacky version of suzuki's superior SV.

[G]

Looks like a comet with fairings and usd forks.

Never ridden one, but from what the mags said, it sounds like it would have been a good bike if it was actually £1-2k less than the SV, rather than about the same.

Similar with other Hyosung bikes, from what I've seem they tend to be a bit cheaply made, but not actually cheap.

It doesn't have radial brakes in the pictures.
Standard SV brakes with decent pads and braided hoses are very good in my opinion anyway.

[extreme3d]

[G]

I can remember when MCN first had the news about them.

They suggested they would be making an sv650 based sports bike for £3k. Now if it had turned out to be an RRP of £3k with further discounts for something of the quality we have, it would be a bit more interesting.
Might even start to sway me on the "don't buy new" that I can often be heard screaming when just-passed-test people are asking questions.

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[G]

Curvy.

Haven't tried a stock bike properly, but expect they aren't quite as sharp as my bikes .

I wouldn't have expected the brakes would be that good being two pot sliding jobbies, but in my set up they're pretty much as good as my r6 brakes.

[lilredmachine]

[Jack_Cheese]

[G]

Is that £3600 on the road though?
Do you get much discount?

I've seen SVs for around £3800 or so new on the road.

Even if we're talking £500 difference, I'd be wanting more than that for a 'cheap' bike. Have heard plenty of horrow stories about them corroding in the summer, never mind winter.


So far, I'm seeing them as budget bikes with a price that doesn't really justify it.

If we look at minimotos, then I can more understand the differences. You can get cheap minimotos for about £150-£200, they will fall apart pretty quickly, or you can get better quality but still cheap minimotos for around £400 that will make an ok bike, maybe a few mods to make them as good as the proper brands.
Then you can get a 'proper' established brand that will cost you around £700-£800 (and more if you want) new which you can be fairly sure will be as good as anything else out there.

But in this case we're not talking 50% of the price, more 90% at best.

[lilredmachine]

SV rrp is 4,300 OTR, Comet is 3,600 including vat and delivery, but not OTR charges. So you are looking at a bit more, still it is a nearly £300 difference on rrp. Not bad considering you get a motor out of the SV for that.

https://www.bavanar.com/roadtest_comet_gt650.pdf

Read some of the test rides before you dismiss it out of hand.
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[Jack_Cheese]

There's a used gt125 on ebay at the moment, doesn't look to be in bad condition from the pics, just a bit caked in road grime

I think the GT650 is a nice bike, i'd be hard pushed to chose between it an the sv, though i'd probably pick the sv if money was no option.

GT650s go dirt cheap on ebay second hand, the residuals are horrendous, and the dealer can freely make you a pathetic off which will probably be the best you'll get.

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[yorkshirelad3]

i ride a comet gt125 at the moment, i like it, no, i love it. Its a nice little runner, a good looking commuter bike, but then im into cruisers so i dont want a super quick lightning bike, infact my next bike will hopefully be the new gv650 cruiser

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