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Hyosung M/C

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    Hyosung M/C

    Has anyone ever seen or ridden one of these things...

    http://www.hyosungmotors.com.au/gt650r.html

    I saw one the other day... kind of looked like a Suzuki drone....

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    Re: Hyosung M/C

    Originally posted by snowborder
    I saw one the other day... kind of looked like a Suzuki drone....
    From what i've heard, that's pretty much what it is, a knockoff sv650. There's a newbie over on ODFU that has one.

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    From what I hear Tod they are nice little bikes

    never tryed one .

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    Hyosung M/C

    Hey, at least I told him where to go if he wanted to talk to an owner

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    Hyosung M/C

    sometimes a kid with one rides with us on tuesday....seems like the equivilent of the crf50/pitbike clones to me. It'll get you downt he road but build quality is suspect...his backfires like crazy and it is all stock..said it wasa like that from the factory

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    WTF does that have to do with the price of tea ?

    Originally posted by OreoGitorio
    Hey, at least I told him where to go if he wanted to talk to an owner

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    Re: Re: Hyosung M/C

    Originally posted by OreoGitorio
    From what i've heard, that's pretty much what it is, a knockoff sv650. There's a newbie over on ODFU that has one.
    Every one at ODFU is a newbie including you

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    Hyosung M/C

    Hyosung has been around for years making scooters and even did contract work for suzuki, building parts for the SV.

    it has similarities for sure

    I gal I know has a Hyosung cruiser.

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    Hyosung M/C

    Hyosung designed the SV650 engine for Suzuki, and licensed it to Suzuki. Or so the story goes....

    I have a few dealers who sell them and like the product. The only problem I usually hear about the SV clone is the brakes - very wooden.

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    Originally posted by Karaya One
    Hyosung designed the SV650 engine for Suzuki, and licensed it to Suzuki. Or so the story goes....

    I have a few dealers who sell them and like the product. The only problem I usually hear about the SV clone is the brakes - very wooden.
    story I hear is that the Suzuki engineer that headed the SV design went to work for hyusung, original SV engines were built by hyosung under Suzuki contract

    the engines are as different as everyting else

    SV=645cc Hyosung=647cc
    SV= crappy damper rod fork Hyosung= crappy USD damper rod fork
    SV= aluminum frame Hyosung= steel frame

    Price of the Hyosung insn't much less than the SV, but I understand the Hyosung has more room to dicker

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    There was one for sale at Cycle Design in Phillipston, last time i was in there, it was black i believe..

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    The cheaper look like steel frame ,but the higher cost ones look aluminum frame

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    Hyosung M/C

    There was a recent edition of Cycle World that compared about 12 "cheap" bikes - the FZ6, SV650, that Hyosung, and a bunch of other bikes.

    They said that the Hyosung really was a very decent little bike, and the only thing they could find to bitch about was the "suspect" cheap looking brake system and lack of a strong dealer network for warranty work.

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    No point

    Only of interest if it was like 4000

    you can get a real sv for same or less money

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    They have a few back in Oz, I think they are actually quite good for what you get?

    www.mcnews.com.au has some reviews, they were quite impressed (and they are quality reviewers).

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    I saw one at the track during the Loudon Classic over near 1a.

    I still think they are too cheap and they are getting Huge Mark ups compared to how much they were first going for.

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    I've heard the same from everyone else...they're cool little bikes and overlap with the sv650.

    Has anyone seen their 250? It looks hell of a lot better than a ninja.

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    Moms south has them for sale. I bet it is a pain in the ass to get parts for if you need anything.

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