Why Suzuki 'Blandit'?

[Matt94]

Often seeing people regarding to them as that.. Why? It looks good, is versatile, can be extensively customised.. and when you hit 5k it takes off pretty well to be fair.. So why the hate? Can't be that bad surely!
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[Rigga]

I think it's down to the 'bland' looks, nowt wrong with em if you ask me!

[Nexus Icon]

They're the bike equivalent of a Ford Mondeo. There's nothing wrong with them, at all, but they're not the stuff of dreams either.
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[Rigga]

I think it's down to the 'bland' looks, nowt wrong with em if you ask me!

[Jersum]

I'm still happy with my bandit, it gets me from A - B, and rarely goes wrong.
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[daffy]

[P.]

5k, obviously riding wrong.

8k maybe.

It just doesn't do anything spectacular. It is just.... bland. As Nexus says, its the Mondeo of the bike world, averagely priced, can't really make it faster, just add Halfords tat.. its just.. as it is...

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[Slacker24seve...]

Porky and hideous and asthmatic; the biking equivalent of the surly, past-it ex-stripper on the reception of your local Spearmint Rhino.
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[funmonkee]

Blandit... a term of endearment for the commuter bikes ... b600, b12 and the gsx1400
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[bridgedino]

No more exciting than the CB500 , which for some reason has a sort of 'legendary' status

Never ridden a bandit but couldn't fault my CB500

[Kwakki Si]

I think the black naked ones look good, ive ridden one and cant say i was blown away though.
When doing my DAS on the hornet then having to jump onto the bandit to do mod2 as the key broke in the hornet the bandit just felt very sluggish fat and lazy compared to the hornet and now my ninja.
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[Rogerborg]

The 650 feels like it's hewn from solid, which it may actually be. Some folk like that. I am not a fan. Nobody is right or wrong. I'm right.
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[Blau Zedong]

The 600 isn't fast enough, has a shitty steel frame, suspension that Halfords would think twice about ftting to a cheap car trailer and the quality of finish of a 1970's BL product.

**Awaits raeg**
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[Shaft]

I seem to remember, when the B12 came out, the biking press went mad about it; it was the wheelie king and the ultimate hooligan bike.

Obviously things have moved on.............
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[Sid_The_Sloth]

I'm perfectly happy with my bandit 600. Only bikes other than 125s I've ridden are gs500, sv650 and my bandit. Out of those 3 I straight away preferred the bandit.

The only thing I can fault about it is the suspension being ridiculously too soft, especially for riding with a pillion. If they're over 10 stone I'd think twice about taking them.

[Sid_The_Sloth]

I'm perfectly happy with my bandit 600. Only bikes other than 125s I've ridden are gs500, sv650 and my bandit. Out of those 3 I straight away preferred the bandit.

The only thing I can fault about it is the suspension being ridiculously too soft, especially for riding with a pillion. If they're over 10 stone I'd think twice about taking them.

[haroman666]

My 400 is fun as fuck, but then I haven't got anything to compare it to other than two 50cc scooters and a 4t 125.

Even if they are "bland" in comparison to other bikes of a similar CC, there is still much fun to be had.
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[Davenaylor]

I have a 99 plate gsf600s and I love it. I owned a YBR before it and did my DAS on an ER6n which I found too small for my 34 inch inside leg and as I was learning on it, I never opened it up.

So for me, owning a bandit as my first big bike, which to me is like shit of a shovel, just gets me very very excited for the next bike I buy.

Ps posts like this do not help with my impulse buying problem.

[krarkol]

When I first got mine I thought it was the best thing ever Now I've got used to it and chuck it around bends a bit more, you quickly realise it's far from being a sports bike!

A good bike it is, brilliant as an all rounder like commuting and the odd blast but don't even bother trying to keep up with mates on their sportsbikes around country roads. It just wobbles around bends at 2/3rds their pace
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[stinkwheel]

They were built to a price andc every fucker has one.

A black bandit with bolt on twin headlights is the silver vectra of the biking world.
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